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That number elevated all the way up to 47 million, and it's around 46 million now. 40% of them are obese. so we addressed the food stamp program under lyndon johnson, starting in about 1962, the snap program in 1965, and back then 13% of our population wasbo obese, and we're trying to solve the malnutrition problem. we've absolutely solved the malnutrition problem, and now we have an obesity problem. >> tucker: there are some perverse and unintended consequences. to the wall, if there is one thing the president ran on, i watched it, it was buildingco a wall. a big, beautiful wall. his campaign...

Out of there, apply it to the wall, and by the way the wall is way overpriced. we can build it for $10 billion or less. i've spent 42 years in the construction business. i'm not interested in building it myself, but we could do that. there's a start on it. and when you look at the rest of this, another thing that caught their attention was the snap program, the food stamp program as we've long known it, and when you look at the numbers on that it's just astonishing. when i came to congress in 2003, there were 19 million people onn food stamps. that number elevated all the way up to 47 million,...

There were 90 million people on food stamps. that number elevated all the way up to 47 million, and inspect on the 46 million now. 40% of them are obese. so we addressed the food stamp program under lyndon johnson, starting in about 1962, the program in 1965, and then back then 13% of our population was obese and we're trying to solve the malnutrition problem. we've absolutely solved the malnutrition problem, and i we have an obesity problem. i interviewed it to buy >> tucker: there are some perverse and unintended consequences. to the wall, if there is one thing the president ran on, i watche...

Smartest people we know to tell us what's the most ludicrous story in the news, everybody wins. the host of aptly named kennedy and jessica karloff a fox news contributor, congratulations. >> and her family owns a vineyard. >> tucker: >> an olympic gold me won two olympic medals in rowin rowing. he went on sky news in great britain claiming he was a portly child, a chubby teenager and he had to turn his life around he did just that and became world champion rower. so of course he wants other people to also rein in the bmi is the only two countries on earth who really figured out the obesity pr...

Wins. the host of aptly named kennedy and jessica tarlov, a fox news contributor, congratulations. >> and her family owns a vineyard. >> an olympic gold medalist, he won two olympic medals in rowing. he went on sky news ing great britain claiming he was a portly child, a chubby teenager and he had to turn his life around, he did just that and became world champion rower. so of course, he wants other people to also rein in the bmi and the only two countries on earth who really figured out the obesity problem is not the u.k. and the united states as you would imagine, he actually gave a big endo...