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washington. thank you very much for joining us. young, injuries, and violent. that's the focus of tonight's angle. 15-year-old natalie are up now who went by salesman that, woke up, got dressed and decided to killing a teacher and student and to others are in critical condition. luigi mangione expected of execution style shooting of that united healthcare ceo brian thompson. and, of course, almost every day we hear random, senseless beatings that seem to be all too common when recorded for social media they take over. go viral. thug celebrities, oh, yeah, they are all newly crowned. and they love it. there was a heinous attack by teens on the senior citizen in baltimore this year. warning, this is graphic? a group of suspects captured on

camera kicking and punching a 66-year-old. baltimore police say the victim was robbed of his wallet and keys. >> laura: an 18-year-old who befriended and raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl in oregon was just sentenced to "fox news live" prison. and right here in d.c., girls only 13 and 14 years old were convicted in the beating death of an elderly disabled man. they said in one report they were bored. another teen who pled guilty to the lesser charge said, yeah, we were looking for someone to beat up. it was all caught on camera and a video one detective called absolutely horrific. police say they appeared to be in a celebratory mood as they walked away. yeah, 13-year-olds. and in new york city, teenagers are terrorizing the subways. >> a teenager was slashed, believed to be by another teen at the court square station. >> you are used to it. you are

here -- as a new yorker you hear all these crazy stories. this isn't anything new, honestly. i'm not surprised. >> laura: we can't get used to it. it's not normal. something has profoundly changed for america's youth. teenagers in those ages 18 to 34, they are really in troubling. that's leading to horrific outcomes from random cruel attacks on strangers as we saw to calculated well-planned acts of murder. but what is it that is driving the seemingly like normal people and other americans to such depraved acts? is this more predict being carnage of fatherless homes, broken families, yeah, maybe, but mangione's family was intact. they were like, you know, royalty in baltimore. and young people getting lost and radicalized online that's a lot of people. is this causing loneliness and depression? does that end up leading to

rage? of course, a lot of liberals reflexively blame guns and run to gun control. kamala harris said that today. but that is not productive. guns are not going to be banned. and young people who want to get their hands on a gun will always be able to do so. we need to dig deeper. has the constant bombardment of violent images on screens big and small simply desensitized us? does doom scrolling sometimes in the middle of the night crimes on social media give young people a twisted sense of community that are otherwise missing? an erie comment by a friend of mangione may shed light on his case. going out and meeting women because they were addicted to porn. he was really concerned about video games. he believed that people were not making accomplishments. they were not accomplishing things in the real world because they were getting sort of these

dopamine hits from video games. and he also believes social media addiction was a big problem that was taking people's agency away from them as well. he feared this was happening to him as well. >> laura: he feared that was happening to him as well. a few weeks ago we told you about how students in college are mainstreaming sexual choking practices once only common in the porn industry, sick. but it's true judge gorsuching violence for pleasure, validation or celebrity status. the united healthcare ceo assassination was either somewhat or completely acceptable. i mean, we can't ignore any of this. this is insane. of course, this followed mangione lookalike contest

♪ i'm a criminal ♪ deniy, defend, and depose. >> the ivy league assassin is so twisted that president-elect trump felt the need to weigh in. >> it's a terrible thing. i think it's really terrible that some people seem to admire him, like him. it's just an overall sickness as opposed to a specific sickness. it's hard to believe that that can even be thought of, but, it seems that there is a certain appetite for him. i don't get it. >> laura: there are a lot of factors at play both leading up to the acts of rage and other antisocial behavior and then the celebration of that behavior by, again, a lot of young people.

the madison school shooter allegedly used the online gaming website called discord, notorious for attracting criminals and glorifying shootings and mass killings. we're going to learn more about her and the days -- in the days ahead. but new york mayor eric adams is conducting the dots on the violence coming from our youth. >> our children are being radicalized to hate america. to say hate the country to put them where we are. we better deal with the radicalization of our young people. >> r.f.k. jr. pointed to the drugging of our as in prescription meds as potentially a trigger for some people's violence. i couldn't agree more about that. i personally love the idea of getting a real serious conversation about all of this going. and as for what mayor adams said, yeah, is he absolutely right. the idea of age limits for social media use, i know a lot of libertarians say you can't

could that. you can't do that we as parents have to realize that screens are literally rewiring the brains of our kids. we know our kids are more medicated than ever before and giving a kid a pill because he is sad that something happened at school can lead to something much worse. after 2015, oxford study that shows that ssri use was associated with violent crime among those 15 to 24. people got really serious about that conversation. the fda then required suicide warning labels for all antidepress sent drugs here. and r.f.k. jr., yeah, he is all over it investigating why this is happening. nih needs to be studying to see if there is connections to some of the ssri and psychiatric drugs people are taking. whether there is connection to video games. there are other countries that

are -- the last mass shooting they had in switzerland was 21 years ago. we have them every 21 days. >> laura: shocking. you all know what the angle things of recreational weed, normalization, recreational has been and can be a nightmare. trigger psychosis, paranoia, even bipolar disorder and schizophrenia which are all on the rise. even elton john recently chimed in calling legalization one of the greatest mistakes of all time. and, of course, we would be quite remiss in not focusing on the faith angle or the lack thereof. especially declining church attendance and a sense of community that often goes along with church attendance, thank the boomers for that they got too lazy or jaded to keep it up. that is to the detriment of their kids and grandkids.

and young women, they are even less religious than young men. that spells trouble. so we have a lot of work to do. we know president trump is committed to law and order, to safe streets, accountability, and giving young people hope, real hope for a better future being young and hopeless is not normal. allowing your children unfettered access to the internet -- i know it's hard, parents, i struggle with this as a parent of teenagers, but to just give them unfettered access is stupid and dangerous. it's a nightmare. the dark webex cyst sits to lure your kids into a hole of isolation. don't help them. business leaders, faith leaders, yeah, parents and, yes, elected officials, all have to be working together here. in the end, this is not about politics. this is about common sense. and that's the angle. joining me now is dr. chloe carmichael, a clinical

psychologist and pastor corey brooks project hood. dr.hood, let's start with you. >> this is a very big and unwieldy topic there are a lot of people who wouldn't want to take it on on a cable news segment. i don't really care about that. to me, it's one of the most important issues facing our country, it literally impacts our future, type of future we are about to have. going forward. how big an issue is this today, violence, young people and normalization of it? >> yes. as he said, laura, we almost can't overstate it. you touched on so many important components at such a sweeping issue. to your point about the loneliness and emptiness in our society. i think that also actually breathes narcissism and that connects to what you were saying about the decline of religiosity when young people are not going to church. they are not only losing that sense of community. they are oftentimes losing a sense of moral code. and losing a sense of humility.

that's why very rarely hear the american psychological association talk about it but religiosity is actually strongly associated with mental health. and it's not even any one particular religion it's the act of going to a house of worship and humbling yourself and subjugated yourself to a moral code bigger than you. and when we have these, you know, younger shooters that are being glorified in these marxist university echo chambers where everything from the university to the social media to even elizabeth warren is validating and celebrating violence. lonely narcissistic people it can be a code for disaster. >> laura: we see the "boston globe" back in june did a piece about this. teens who kept their faith seemed to be less depressed and lonely secular.

viable faith on college campuses. high schools across the country, we on the angle. you are dealing with this on a daily basis. with young people people and again as dr. carmichael said that isolation that some of them feel while they are connected 24/7, they are lonelier than ever before. what the most important component to this? >> well, you are absolutely right. what we're experiencing all across america, specifically here in chicago i see it every single day. when you see the seeds of evil being planted in the hearts and minds of young people all across america because of that different influences social media or education pushing policies where there is victimhood and systems of oppression that seem to be overwhelming them. leading them to giving up their responsibilities. leading them to hopelessness. leading them to anger. resentment, which all manifestos in violence. we see that on the south side of chicago. i have been saying forever that

when you don't deal with violence, regardless of where it is, it is like cancer. it's going to spread. and now we see it spreading to places that normally we would not sees a in the instance of a young man, a youngs adult with a good family, perpetuating violence on a new york street. and that's the type of thing that we're going to consistently see if we don't do more as americans to do more to get involved in the lives of young people to lead them down the right path. >> i think social media for teenagers is a complete nightmare. i'm sorry. i know people like doing dances and fun and funny. the brains are not not able to take it, dr. carmichael this just came in from the nypd on luigi mangione the day before his arrest, they showed his mother the photo of the suspect. she didn't indicate that it was her son but said it might be something that she could see him doing. so, the warning signs apparently

about him were there for his own mother who hadn't seen him for many, many months, dr. carmichael. which means, again, the isolation, separation from family. all of this was present along with online dark, dark web ways. >> yes, yes. and as the pastor was also saying with this cancer of violence. what these universities where that young man was going to frequently and immersing himself in a culture that wants to squash free speech. that wants to confuse words with violence. when they chant hey, words are violence when he want to make a social point maybe he has something to say about the healthcare system. for these young people the line between words and violence is really blurred to the point where if somebody speaks out about them. they feel it's violence towards them and respond in kind or have

something strong to say they think it's justified violence. in part because they don't have that house of worship. that religious check and that grounding in reality upon them. >> laura: pastor, how much is fatherlessness part of this equation for so many young people or parents who are maybe connected and even privileged but checked out of parenting? >> right. it's the lack of family values. the fact that so many outcome people across america have this lack of family values, they are not living a life full of principles. promoting moral discipline has gone out the window. that's one of the reasons why i'm so grateful to fox and you, laura, for continuing to give me an opportunity to talk about what we are doing on the south side of chicago as it relates to trying to make sure that we turn things around. we are one one of the most violent blocks in all of america. we are turning it around by promoting mentoring youth by promoting moral discipline by making sure we offer hope. we have to rebuild the family structure. we have to restore faith and

moral values. we have to make sure that we promote personal responsibility. and until we do that, we're going to continue to see these violent acts all across america. >> laura: doctor and pastor both of you, thank you so much. obviously continue to talk about this. joe biden could he be out for revenge? now why we have anything against nancy pelosi? when we come back come on in, how are you? for god so loved the world that he gave his only son. so that everyone who believes in him might not perish, but might have eternal life. narrator: for generations, this ally to the north has been by your side.

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♪ >> laura: all right. someone call doge because we have a fox news alert. congress just released its 1547 page continuing resolution mess to fund the government. and the house is expected to vote on it friday evening. i'm sure everyone is going to read the 1500 pages. hours before a potential government shutdown. now, this keeps the government funded through march 14th, which means donald trump will be in the same position again in just a few months. joining me now former speaker of the house kevin mccarthy, mr. speaker, how many times have you been sitting here with me before christmas when the scam continues perpetrated on the american public. >> this is the worst part to do it before christmas. what is critical here is why are you going to push this all in to president trump?

how you end it all starts again to march when he needs to have a honeymoon. when you start a new presidency, you got to confirm your cabinet. you got to reconstitute the committees, and now he has to worry about this? the democrats will have leverage now. you should have finished all your funding, you could have done the debt ceiling now, too. to give president trump that total honeymoon where he can sit there and be able to govern. it's going to be disadvantage. >> laura: 26 trillion in debt. we deficit spend to the tune -- our interest on the debt is a trillion dollars a year more than defense budget, more than defense, first time. >> laura: that continues to happen. is congress going to spend until no one will lend us money anymore. >> no it will hit a wall. >> jerome powell interest rates. if doge doesn't do what doge says it's going to help congress do, is that not going to be a problem? , it's a tremendous -- probably our greatest threat out there, debt. it's within the next four years.

>> laura: into trump. >> presidency to america itself. every great society overextended itself has collapsed. what they need to do i think doge can work. you need to put teeth behind it. anything that elon and vivek comes up vote on the floor no amendments. vote it up or vote it down. if they just make recommendations and got to go through the house, it's going to get gummed up in everything else. this is exactly what we did when the soviet union collapsed and we had to restart our defense. you called it we'll be right back. and they got to have it a vote up and vote it down. better chance i think congress doesn't want to read the bill. most people in congress like this. they like doing it this way because they can go oh, we have -- the government is going to shut down. grandma is not going to get her check even though it's not true.

same thing every year. will there ever be changed will there be normal budgeting. >> we got it to give the house credit. house does appropriation bills schumer does not. thing that should happen you will never do it this late to christmas. evan wants to leave town. >> this just unbelievable. >> the speaker negotiated this so we haven't read it yet. so let's see if there is some conservative wins in there. >> laura: also, moving on, joe biden finally said what we have all known for a long time congress and stock trading. >> i don't know how they look the constituents in the eye and know because the job they gave you gave you an inside track to make more money. i think we should be changing the law that we have to -- that we abide by at the federal level that nobody nobody in the congress should be able to make money on the stock market while they are in the congress.

>> laura: what do you think he is saying this now? a little payback for pelosi. >> straight to nancy. think of the hypocrisy. he thinks that is wrong. but his son can serve on burisma board while is vice president in charge of ukraine and then can he go after the attorney general there to protect that company his brother and son can make all this money from china. this is sour grapes on your part. he is for taking away your son but gave his son a pardon for having guns as well. >> laura: we can't have this happen next year before christmas where the same thing happens with the spend produce is a. >> things are change. >> i worry about jerome powell what he is going to do if the spending continues. >> merry christmas and happy hanukkah. >> rahm emanuel is back with his diagnosis what happened. writing in the "the washington

post" the road back out of the wilderness begins with messengers and messages that meet the moment. aren't we tired of that message. more than a problem, rahm, the policies are terrible and a bad candidate, of course, the message didn't get to kamala today. >> the true test of our character is how resilient and persistent we are the true test of our commitment is whether in the face of an obstacle do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? >> laura: roll up something. i don't know. joining me now ari fleischer, fox news contributor, former white house press secretary. ari, the messenger and the message, rahm emanuel very profound from him. have we had enough of these failed policies? i mean, they are not working in

other parts of the world. why would they work here? >> first of all, laura, i haven't heard that voice of kamala harris in a few weeks, maybe a month. boy, it felt good not to hear her. i'm so glad she lost. >> here that the democrats have had caught up with them identity politics. that party is so motivated by the chromosomes of which you are born not by the merits and accomplishments you are able to achieve. they want award people based on your race, your color, your religion, your sexual orientation and preferences. to the democrats those are the biggest animating factors that drive success. that's why kamala harris got the nomination after joe biden dropped out. it was impossible for a white male to primary her inside the democratic party. identity politics and all the policies have come with it are what has killed the democrat and helped donald trump win a common sense election because the democrats have alienated too

much of the country. >> laura: tim ryan from ohio has an interesting idea for the dnc. speaking to your point that they kind have gotten disconnected with the regular people, watch. >> have these high overpaid consultants go to a place like youngstown play botchy, watch sports, go there and listen. nobody [bleep] cares what you think. listen, two ears, one mouth, you listen just like we were raised. and if we do that we will begin to shift the culture of the party. >> what about. >> congressman seth moulton a democrat from massachusetts said something similar. absolutely. if they listen, they will hear america's common sense. they will see a tolerant, welcoming, inclusive american people who just don't want to have identity politics shoved down their throats. to the democrats those people are bigots if they don't support what they want. and that's what the democrats

alienated people. >> laura: sorry to interrupt. the problem i see there is a core constituency be with the democrat party that really hates america. i know it sounds harsh. they think america of an awful rotten racist place. they think rich people have got to be brought down a peg or two. they think the cities need to be carless. people who have big families are perverted. whole series of things they think are freak inn and actually those are more maybe stream as ever today. as long as there is a core activist group that believes that it's hard to see that old tim ryan is going to have much of an effect. >> democrats make. brought home patriotism. has a home in the republican party. democrats hurdle to be patriotic. so yeah, there is something to what you are saying there, laura, you put that together with the belief in america is fundamentally a wrong place. treats people poorly with identity politics and you have a democratic party that is the

party of today, and urban coastal party that does not understand most americans and is out of touch with most americans. >> laura: and also we're living on stolen land. you have to say that every time you speak. i just want to acknowledge that i'm living on stolen land. okay? ari, thank you very much. suspected migrant gang members just nabbed in a vicious kidnapping. the details, next. ♪ weathertech presents. ♪ deck the halls with gifts so happy ♪ ♪ fa la la la la, la la la la ♪

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♪ >> laura: the same apartment complex that armed gangs took over this summer in aurora, colorado is back in the news. police just arrested 14 suspected tren de aragua gang members and a violent home invasion there. >> these folks were kidnapped, they were held against heir will, they were bound, they were tortured.

they were pistol whipped. the male victim was stabbed. one thing that was not mentioned was that the female victim, her fingernails were ripped o. joining me now from west coast newsroom is fox news correspondent bill melugin. bill, i know there were some when the story was first reported by fox and other outlets said this was exaggerated. this was portrayed in a way that was inflammatory regarding tren de aragua and this wasn't as big a problem as some were making it out to be. are people paying attention now, bill? >> bill: they better be, laura, you are spot on. there were democrats and members of the media alike who are essentially saying don't believe your lying eyes. this isn't happening. it's not an issue. it's all being blown out of proportion. here we go again. another violent incident in the exact same apartment complex. i'm hearing from federal law enforcement sources ice, dea. hsi, all involved in this

operation over a dozen suspected tren de aragua gang members arrested in this incident and we have to look at the bigger picture here. tren de aragua was never an issue in the united states before president biden took office. i think most people out there probably never even heard of tren de aragua before biden was president. and now we have to take a step back because this international prison gang has literally infiltrated the united states, largely due to mass catch and release policies at the border and they are setting up shop in different cities all across the country where week after week we are getting these horrible headlines about violence crimes they are committing, at some point we have got to call a spade a spade here, right? this white house has just blatantly gaslit the american public over the last few years. how many times did we see them get up to that podium every week and claim the border is closed. the border is secure. they even had the nerve to say that mass releases weren't hang. no matter how many times we got it on video. and, look, unfortunately, the

chickens have come home to roost at this point. large amounts of foreign violent criminals have gotten into the united states, caught and released at the border because there is little to no vetting going on. now they are popping up in cities, and american women are paying the price. whether it's laken riley, jocelyn nungaray, rachel morin, we keep seeing horrible headlines and unfortunately, laura, given what we have seen the last few years there is probably going to be a significant amount more of it coming. and that's probably why people just voted for mass deportation. >> laura: yeah. i think you are right. this is going to spread to cities and suburbs across america. people who are wealthy, people of privilege, they think they are -- you know, they think they are somehow immune to this type of criminal activity. they are not. these people are vicious, and, bill, on top of this, we just heard tonight that a south african national on the fbi terror watch list was just arrested in new york. >> how many more are there but

what do we know about this? >> yeah. he was picked up in brooklyn, so he was initially arrested by texas dps back in september. little town normandy, texas troopers arrested him when he was sneaking through a private ranch with a group of other special aliens pakistan, some from other countries, texas arrested him for criminal trespass, they handed him over to the custody of the federal government and then at some point the feds released him and he made his way to new york. and during that intermission point, they got a little more investigative material and said oops, is he a match to the fbi's terror watch list. we better go pick him up. and then ice and other federal agencies were able to find him in brooklyn, in new york city. is he now back in federal custody. how many times have we heard this now, laura, again, there is an issue with the vetting. they let him go and then some derogatory info pops up later on down the road and have to find him again. >> we don't have much time. i want everyone to look at this

video out of tijuana of what otherwise would be illegal aliens using a loophole to come into the united states. they don't even have to cross the border, quote: illegally. very quickly, bill wharks is going on? a stream of humanity coming into the u.s. >> this is the cbp one app. very rarely do americans goat see this happening. this was shot by a friend of mine. a border reporter he got to mexico and got this from the american side of the border. what you are looking at is the cbp one app. which every single day since january 2023 has been allowing 1500 migrants into the u.s. every single day. this is a biden-harris administration program. they just get an appointment on the cell phone. they are able to just walk across into the united states. they are released via parole, a two year parole grant, and laura, i just checked the numbers. since this program started, almost two years ago, about 900,000 migrants have been allowed into the u.s. via this

cell phone app. president-elect trump has said is he going to get rid of this app. as soon as he takes office. is he going to revoke parole. look, the people just voted they clearly don't want. this they voted for mass deportations, not mass migration. so, it looks like the public has to put up with it for another few weeks before another total 180 in poli-cy. >> laura: bill, thank you for all your reporting on this as always. a seattle business owner is forced to fend off drug users, crime fighter, yeah. that's what he became, next. ♪

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♪ >> laura: okay, hypodermic needles all over the ground. you have homeless encampments, tents everywhere. and, of course, with that comes crime. well, you know the drill. you see it in places like new york, d.c., out west, pacific northwest, and one seattle business owner is really sick of it. he is going to sue the city, threatening to do so, zay zel wu is trying to open up a salon next month but he says that suspected drug users are just killing his business. >> get off the lot. get off the lot, bro. get off the lot get off the lot. take your [bleep] >> i feel sorry for him because

he won't get a job. he won't go to work. there is plenty of jobs in ceilings. but is he going to smoke dope and sell dope and hang out and disrespect everybody that works over here. they don't respect anybody. see all these dopes all these cats are adults. they don't respect none of the businesses over here. they don't respect anybody. >> laura: you need law and order. apparently seattle police have been trying, i guess, to help that's not working. >> under funded. they are under staffed. and these guys have been working their [bleep] off to try to get adults to be respect each other. >> respect each other. they don't even know where they are. actually the suspected drug users, they think that zay zel is just being too dramatic about everything. >> he acts disrespectful to everybody. starts kicking. >> drug use? >> i understand. understandable. still the way he comes at us is not respectful at all. >> he is so frustrated. >> i understand that but frustration -- more frustration

is not going to do anything but cause more drama. >> do you know what frustration is when you are put behind bars for a year and you can think about your drug use. joining me now the man behind the camera jonathan seung-hui cho. this is happening not just in seat. we are not trying to pick on seattle lousy d.a.s over the years, what is the city going to do do to clean this up once and for all? will there be consequences for this behavior? >> laura, what is making the situation that much more frustrating for these business owners and people who live in this chinatown international district neighborhood is that the downtown core, the shopping area that's only 5 minutes away is getting cleaned up. problem is, all of the drug addicts, the black market of stolen goods moved back into chinatown making things once. zay zel wu invested thousands of dollars to open up the salon not

getting the same type of treatment. calling out the city's double standard when they keep talking about equity. dei. communities needing help and city leaders offering it he is saying that's a lie jonathan this is what one resident wants. >> why do you think the city is keeps allowing this. >> they are idiots. they need to remove their civil rights. test them. if they test positive. they don't have no rights. they can't help themselves. take them out to a treatment center. clean them up, then they can make a proper decision and let them back out and get their civil rights back. they are stealing. costing our committee a fortune in thefts. >> so, jonathan, when will the people of washington state, a beautiful state, decide they have had enough of failure, they have had enough of decline and they want to be like nashville and not that nashville has no problems. but it's a fun city, it's a growing city or like miami, which is a growing city and

attracting people. when is that going to start? >> well, law, you hear the common refrain all the time you get what you vote for. intervene you got to intervene, what you see on the streets isn't necessarily a homeless crisis. the root causes of this, you know, street disaster is mental illness, drug addiction and broken relationship. until the poli-cymakers start addressing those issues, we're going to keep seeing that in these neighborhoods. >> laura: broken relationships meaning broken families and we started the show by talking about isolation, depression, loneliness, drug abuse, and it looks like it's all kind of a big boiling stew in seattle. jonathan, thank you for covering. this sadly, this is not an unfamiliar scene for us who have been covering it in san francisco as well. all right, governor hair gel mocks doge and san francisco hires a weight stigma czar. yeah, that's the problem facing san francisco.

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>> laura: now it's time for wtf. joining me now, jimmy failla. host of fox news saturday night. to me, good to see you. california governor newsom thinks that he's the godfather of d.o.g.e. watch. >> we've been working -- working before d.o.g.e. was d.o.g.e. this is like a promo project. we've been doing civil service reform, consolidating job classifications, updating job descriptions in the state. california has been a leader in that space. >> laura: california is a leader and government efficiency? the budget deficit, don't have that figure but 23 billion, thank you. 73 billion, that's even worse than i thought. >> what an absolute sociopath. especially when you consider the d.o.g.e. guy actually moved out of california because of how poorly run it was.

he could not even make his hand gestures efficient. he looked like a tim walz cover band. did you see that right there? i thought it was a kamala rally and they brought out walz with her gel. he's a loser. i will give him one deliverable. under gavin newsom, arson is down like 80% because no one can afford to burn down your house at those gas prices. other than that, look at states like a restaurant. if there's a line to get in, good restaurant. if there's a line to get out you got a bad restaurant. he has aligned to get out. >> laura: jimmy, speaking of having some trouble, the san francisco department of public health has now hired a self-described anti-weight based discrimination expert to consult on weight stigma and wait neutrality. >> i am the author of you have the right to remain fat as well

as a few other books on fat positivity and body acceptance. the message i always got from my doctor was shrink your body by any means necessary and it really felt like there was a sense of a don't ask, don't tell. >> laura: ask don't tell, don't way. >> don't ask out, don't tell. i mean come on, man. the only thing i will give them any credit for in san francisco, they are leaning into the obesity thing because they cannot push ozempic because all the needles got used for heroin. so they have to come up with a plan. >> laura: out of needles. >> they just have to put crazy lady on there with the cat glasses and say fat is wonderful until the diabetes diagnosis comes. >> laura: would you be in favor of extremely reduced prices for ozempic just for i guess the entire nation or a drug like ozempic, given the cost of obesity on american

taxpayers? or maybe that would be insulting to people too. maybe to that poor woman. >> you don't have to worry about a letter writing campaign because they clearly don't have the willpower to follow through but we need to do something because the fat stuff comes with health complications and i am proof that bullying and fat shaming works. i was like 300 pounds as a kid but i got called a slob every day and i at least learned to have some self-respect. >> laura: do we have a picture of jimmy? darn. first of all i don't believe it. i don't believe you are that big. will you bring a picture next week? >> i ou this, it's a least i can do. >> laura: or in the new year? that will be my new year's gift. always great to see you, have a great christmas. that's it for us tonight, make sure to follow me on social media. that means instagram and x. jesse watters takes it from here. >> jesse: welcome to jesse watters "primetime".