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Could've saved more than 100 billion dollars, and more importantly, we could've saved more than 330,000 american lives, 300,000. how can that be? well, here in america lot of people's health insurance is tied to their employment, with the pandemic up millions lost their jobs, and their insurance. that didn't happen in other countries, as for those americans that still have health insurance through an employer, the fear of bruising that inference during a pandemic, might cause them to still go to work even when they didn't feel well. these factors both delayed diagnosis and exasperated transmis...

Rgv. >> everything that comes through our area does not stay in this area. >> griff: speaks of drugs, customs and border protection say they seized $330,000 of fentanyl near hidalgo, that is enough to kill five million people. griff jenkins, fox news. >> carley: as the caravan marches closer 4000 border patrol agents could be out of a job thanks to the biden administration vaccine update. the wife of a del rio border patrol agent joins us now. this dates back to the fact that the president mandate federal workers get vaccinated. those up to 400 0 border patrol agentss could be fired.

Course, the fed has been trying to get that number to sort of reach an equilibrium. >> 3.6 unemployment, i'm old enough to remember when people would be jumping up and down, celebrating that number. just in and of itself. >> a couple of years ago, we were worried when we saw that unemployment rate spike so high in the -- in the beginnings of the covid crisis, where millions of people were losing their job every single month. this is -- these numbers are consistent with what you heard soft landing, soft landing, we have such a strong economy, you want to see a downshift in the labor market, tha...

Of downshifting. and i think that's what you want to see in a mature recovery. we have been having 500,000 and more every single month, so 390,000 is a moderation of that pace, the lightest in about a year. still, well above the average from before the pandemic. in normal times, prepandemic, this would be a blockbuster number to be honest. 3.6% unemployment, it might have fallen a little bit, the unemployment rate, had you not had 330,000 people come in looking for work, right. so the labor force grew a little bit. that's the trend, you guys, over the past year or so. you now have 2.4 million ...

But you work for it, so you got it. one of the things that vandy was telling me is this idea of price gouging. it's not so. this is from zandy. >> there's a long list of reasons why inflation is so uncomfortably painfully high. at the very top, the russian invasion of ukraine and the surge in oil prices, pandemic is second. i would put at the very bottom of the list, maybe not on the list, price gouging. i don't think that is a factor here at all. >> neil: what did you make of that? not a factor at all? >> i was thinking about the wages that we saw in the may jobs reports, 5%, which is great. ...