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well, we can do anything. cheesecake cookies? the chookie! manage all your sales from one place with a partner that always puts you first. (we did it) start today at godaddy.com larry: so president joe bind says israel is losing support, which is a very dumb thing to say about your ally and i'll re-up this. it's president biden who is losing support. think of that. and, and liz macdonald is back, and she never loses support, ever. elizabeth: thank you so much, larry. good to see you again. we have breaking news coming in. welcome to the show senator john
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kennedy. senator, good to see you. you serve on senate judiciary appropriations, banking and budget small business. thank you for joining us, senator. there's a lot to talk about with you. first this news coming in, your re-accounting standards board to rules house committee voting yes, to formize the impeachment probe -- formalize the impeachment probe to president biden is could come tomorrow sounds like they have the votes to move forward and make it is easier for the house to enforce subpoenas. >> liz, i think the american people know two things right now. number one, president biden lied to the american people about his son's business and his knowledge of it and involvement in it. number two, i think the american people know that hunter biden is afraid of and needed lots of help. the american people are asking themselves lots of questions
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like what did hunter biden do for the money? it's way past the time to try and claim that he was some sort of expert in ukrainian n natural gas. what did he do for the money? number two, who helped him? and number three, who did he share the money with? now, those are fairly simple questions to answer if the white house would be fourth coming but it has not been forth coming and for that reason the house decided or will decide one tomorrow and opening an impeachment inquiry, and the american people are entitled to know the facts and entitled to know whether their president is a crook. i'm not saying president biden is a crook. please don't misunderstand me. i'm saying that these are legitimate questions that need impeachment inquiry will make it
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easy. elizabeth: senator, the issue too is can they get the president's personal bank records because critics are saying still no links of predicting quo ports of entry qd pro quo selling access overseas and loan money sloshing around and a lot of at least two dozen or shell companies off the balance sheet. can they get the biden bank records? that's what's key. >> syrianly impeachment inquiry will make -- certainly an impeachment inquiry will make it ease versus frequency and if i was the white house, i would consider doing that if the president did nothing wrong is calling a press conference in a systematic way walk the american people through the answers to the questions i just raised. once the questions are answered with the data to support them, this would go away.
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for whatever reason, president biden chosen not to do that and questions remain and i trust that the house will get to the bottom of it and the american people are entitled to know the truth. elizabeth: we're hearing more and more senate republicans are on board with this impeachment probe, is that true? >> oh, yes. i don't think there's been that many senate republicans that have been off board. let me say it again, these are fairly basic questions and the american people are entitled to know the answer to them. i would want to know the answer even if i were not a senator. why the president hasn't just stepped up to the plate and answered them, i don't know. he's got thousands of e-mails that he hasn't shown the house investigators, bank records you mentioned, and i don't think this is going away until white house has access to this information nor should it, liz. nor should it.
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elizabeth: senator, you make -- your points are well taken and we've got this news congresswomanning in. the national archives are reportedly saying it will give the house impeachment inquiry 62,000 pages of un-redacted e-mails, including nearly 180 e-mails of then vice president biden using fake pseudonyms and fake e-mail addresses during the obama white house. that's nearly 1800 fake e-mails. have you ever seen, you're a student of history, have you ever seen anything like what's going on? >> well, that's all swell and i appreciate the national archives doing that, but is that all of them? who picked -- and if it's not, who picked the ones to give to the house? if they haven't -- if not turning over all of them, national archives are playing games again and that's why the house is going to vote to open an impeachment proceeding. elizabeth: have you ever seen anything like this or heard of anything like what you're saying? >> i've never seen -- well aye
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seen people do stupid things, i've seen people do sleazy things like hunter biden did. i've never seen a president's son do it to this extent. and i'm not saying this is unprecedented, and i'm not saying that other people haven't done anything and done other things wrong, but step back and look at this from 35,000 feet, liz, you have all these enemies of the united states, russia, ukraine at one point, not now but@one points point, china, she given the president or president's son millions and millions of dollars knowing full well as i say it again, hunter biden is afraid of them. they didn't pick him. they didn't get his name off the recruit. why did they pick him?
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who did he do for the money and share the money with and who helped him? and those are fair questions that people need to have the answers. elizabeth: now we've got house oversight chair james comer and house judiciary chair jim jordan and they'll hold hunter biden in contempt of congress and does not show up for deposition on december 13th. that's tomorrow. now special councilnology a deposition and didn't indict hunter for violating u.s. foreign lobbying laws and the paper trails going straight to the president? >> i don't know and i was judging by his actions and appears to me that mr. weiss will do the right thing when constantly supervised and cornered like a rat. his initial instinct was to cover all this up and let some
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of the criminal violations and let hunter biden roll out i don't think we ought to tell him yes for doing his job when he started out and has a brain over the single cell organism can see the special treatment. elizabeth: senator, the president is holding a joint press conference with ukraine president zelensky and happening as we speak. basically the president went around congress and gave $200 million to ukraine for its war against russia so that's on top of zelensky asking for more
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money on top of the billions he's already received. it seems like this ukraine aid will happen and big push back by republicans and they're saying you got to do border security but democrats are saying, we don't need to do border security. give ukraine for money. your reaction? >> the president september us a bill, it was too protect america's national security and it pertained to the war in ukraine, war in israel, the chinese conduct and endopacific, and the border because clearly national security now involves the border. we took the president seriously and we started debating and fashioning a bill dealing with all those four subjects. now all the sudden president biden and some of my democratic friends said no, no, no, you can't talk about the border. for seven weeks this is the been negotiations that have gone
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nowhere. got nothing done. here's where we are. only way the supplemental bill is going to pass is if president biden stands up in front of god and country and the united states congress and says these are the changes i'm willing to make at the border. the border is an open bleeding wound. 8.4 million people, four nebraskas have come into america under his watch. he's let them in. we don't have the slightest idea who they are. it is dangerous. it's a violation of the law. the president is going to have to tell us what he's willing to do to stop it. if he'll do that, my guess is, and it's meaningful, it's not just lip service. my guess is that congress will take up his bill. but till he does that, congress is not going to take up his bill. bill. elizabeth: upon taking office, he did hundreds of executive
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actions to weaken the border and get rid of trump's border policies. senator, let's get your reaction to this and president caused an uproar saying israel is losing support and thinks netanyahu has to change his government, even though it's bipartisan. netanyahu is neurergicking the biden white house -- now rejecting the biden white house postwar plan letting the palestinian to take over gaza. senator, you've been encouraging the president to keep supporting israel and fighting the hamas terrorists. what do you think of the president now? >> i thought i understood president biden's policy on israel, but i don't anymore. he started out strong. now he's gone wobbly. now his policy, there's a change by the day and perhaps by the hour and there's an alice in wonderland weirdness to the whole thing. it's like his team has put together their middle east
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policy with vodka and darts and the president will support israel or not. i was relieved when israel was 100% and he's gone wobbly and we're not going to have these with hamas and soldiers and i'm sorry. the entire time they're dying. they're terrorists and they're not going till we do. we're doing that and very best it can to try and minimize the casualties by palestinian citizens and hamas is using its own people to palestinian and we cannot let hamas win. having said all that, i don't think it matters what i think.
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i think israel push israel too far and i think israel is going to knock hamas into a new zip code. elizabeth: senator bernie sanders said hamas does not want peace and it's pointless to talk about ceasefire and hamas wants permanent war and those are direct quotes himself. how do you want the biden white house to respond to iran and going to iran and iran-backed hamas and zen times more rockets and quickly escalate and what's your take on the biden white house on iran right now? >> the reason we're having this mess in part of the middle east and the reason we're having war in ukraine and having china
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being aggressive with the indo pacific and the biden administration because they sent our enemies and all sorts of signals of appeasement. i'm not going to sit here and talk for an hour. the president's behavior or misbehavior and iran for example concluded. iranian surrogates have fired and i've hit our military over by now 100 times and a few cases and president biden not allowed our military to fight back but in most he's going to ignore it. they're having a missile shot at and weakness and advice.
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more dealing with and she and china and can't understand one thing and going between us and when you start doing. elizabeth: what concerns you right now about this white house most of all, senator kennedy? >> liz, we don't have enough time. things are out of control. people are having themselves blood plasma to go to the grocery store and it's down and prices are falling and the crime and border and internationally the world's on fire, ukraine in the middle east and china, embers are smoldering indo
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pacific and wish president biden would forget about build back better and put them back the way they found them. they're not better off today as americans and we're not better off than we were two years ago. the american people deserve better and this administration keep giving them worse. elizabeth: senator john kennedy, pleasure to have you on, sir. hope to have you back on soon. good to see you. still ahead, congressman greg steube, carlos gimenez, and special council jack smith urging the supreme court to rule quickly on former president trump's immunity claim in the 2020 election case. the trump team is firing back. and china, washington post is reporting china is unleashing a cyber army to invade the u.s. power grid and infrastructure in order to give chaos and panic in
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the event of potential conflict with the u.s. in the indo pacific and an update to a story we gave you last week. lawmakers probing the biden white house for a $3 billion loan to a green energy solar company accused of scamming and defrauding elderly dementia patients. coming up, marc thiessen is here on how americans are frustrated and inflation is not letting up at all but going in the wrong dexter loomis. direction. next, on evening edit. >> now we're a nation in decline. we are a failing nation. we are a nation that has the highest inflation in 50 years where banks are collapsing and interest rates are skyrocketing.
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elizabeth: okay, more news coming in and special council jack smith is maybe ago rare move and asking the u.s. supreme court to take the unusual step of skipping past an appeals court and ruling on president trump's presidential immunity claim and trump saying he can't be prosecuted in a federal 2020 case. fox news mark meredith is live in dc and breaking news on this
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all day. mark, good see you. >> you too, liz. we have news breaking within the last few minutes and lawyers for former president trump filed a motion with the u.s. district court here in dc basically asking the judge to pause all proceedings with this trial up 'til an appeals process is worked out and whether or not this case could go to trial to begin with. this is fascinating and trump's legal team saying because it wants to appeal the charges to begin with, nothing should happen with the case. at the same time you have special council jack smith essentially asking the supreme court to weigh in once and for all asking that the former president can be prosecuted on the charges of overturning the 2020 election. now the special council, he wants this all decided quickly because the trial for all this, liz, set to begin in underway in three months. in a court filing on monday, special council urged the supreme court to step in and block the appeals process that trump could use to delay the trial. in the filing the special council says it's imperative of public importance that the respondents claim of immunity be
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responded by the court and proceed as promptly as possible if the claim of immunity is going to be rejected. where it gets even more interesting. the supreme court says it will consider whether or not they want to weigh in on this case. the court now wants trump's lawyers to respond to them in the next eight days and trump's legal team has been fired off statements left and white and calling it a political witch hunt and trump's team writing, there's no reason to rush the witch hunt to trial and president trump's 150 million supporters at least and president trump will continue to fight for justice and oppose these authoritarian tactics and trump waiting to find out what the supreme court will do but the latest news, liz, legal team saying don't even think about doing a trial in march till we go through the appeals process. liz. elizabeth: wow, really wild stuff. mark, thank you for explaining that and always great reporting from you, mark. welcome back former assistant deputy general and uc berkeley law professor john yoo.
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this is wild stuff. what do you make of all this about getting the trial started, the fight over that. it's supposed to start march 4, 2024. the special council wants to start it immediately. he's asking the supreme court to rule on that against the president's immunity claim. trump's saying, no, you're interfering with the election for 2024. >> liz, this is an example of how the special council and judge want to take this decision. what do people think of what president trump did back on january 6, 2021, take it out of the ballot box and try to decide it in the courtroom. this is a prime example. what the special council is doing is unprecedented and only really important time this has ever happened before was in the nixon watergate tapes case. what the special council wants here is for the supreme court to reach down and intervene in the trial proceedings of the court
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here and review prematurely whether president trump is immune from prosecution for the events of january 6. now, this is an important constitutional question. it may be that the supreme court eventually decides is and may be the most important supreme court case on presidential power. what the special council doesn't explain in the petition is why that has to be rushed. why take this case out of the normal procedures and why prevent the intermediate appellant court from deciding this. elizabeth: john, the supreme court could easily say no and you need to adjudicate this at the appeals court level before you come to us and that means it's, again, a further delay in the case that special council smith wants expedited and a spokesperson for trump's campaign said in a statement "crooked joe biden henchman jack
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smith is so focused on preventing president trump from retaking the oval office that smith is willing to try for a hail mary by racing to the supreme court and bypassing the appellant process". >> you know, strip out president trump's colorful rhetoric and he has a point. 99.99% of all cases it would proceed by going to the appeals court and appeals court help the supreme court by hearing the issue first, considering it, issuing an opinion and this court in washington dc specializes in separation of powers and president seizure disorders and immunity -- presidency and immunity claims and issued a decision on a similar point last week and two would he bees ago. why not let the normal procedure go it's because jack smith wants to get this case decided so smack in the middle of the elections. elizabeth: the other thing too, john, this could affect the georgia fulton county da case as well if the supreme court sides with the former president saying, yeah, you got immunity.
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special council jack smith is now planning to use data from form riprap's white house cell phone -- former president trump's cell phone and trump could say my phones were routinely managed by other white house staffers though. >> liz, you're right. if trump should win this should serve as some kind of barrier to the georgia case, new york city cases, but if trump loses and loses early, it's going to be open season on trump. maybe more people bringing cases. elizabeth: john, you're terrific. thank you for joining us. we'll see you. more and more polls gathering and cbs poll and cnn poll and americans coast-to-coast are frustrated. inflation is not letting up at all. it's not easing up. we're going to break it down and what it means for you on "the evening edit" next. ♪
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george bush and one and only gemarc thiessen. president biden is saying inflation is transitory and coming down but it's going in the wrong direction and coming in at 3.1% for november. that's still stubbornly high by the federal reserve. talk about how this is up ending the 2024 race. >> inflation isn't coming down and going up more slowly but not like we're getting back to where we were before biden unleashed the inflation on us and people are paying more and, look, the biden has embraced bidenomics as a campaign theme as if this is a is good thing and vast majority of americans say he's made it worse and it's a disaster and i'm not sure what he's doing of embracing bidenomics on what to run on. elizabeth: it's compounded 17.3%
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under this white house all in. it's hitting the polls and new cbs poll 7 in ten americans disapprove of the handling of inflation and that's their number one concern. the second concern is the border and 76% say the north carolina it not keeping up with inflation and down after 3% under the white house. the cost for the basics to survive going up and wages going down president biden is now trailing trump in michigan and georgia in a new cnn poll. >> he's trailing him but keep something in mind, okay. if you look at 538 average of polls, which is probably one of the best polling averages out there, joe biden is today, today is day 1,057 of the biden presidency, joe biden is the most unpopular president in the history of presidential polling. 11 points less popular than
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jimmy carter and no other president has been this unpopular since they started polling and joe biden is the most unpopular since world war ii and the red wave we were all expecting didn't hit. why is that? why, he turned -- in fact he turned in the best performance of any president in the first midterm since john f. kennedy. why is that? elections aren't referendums on a individual but a binary choice between two alternatives between the voters. what they're saying very clearly is we don't want a trump/biden rematch. so no one is listening to them. reuters poll came out today and saying if you force people to choose between two alternatives they don't like, they may think joe biden is incompetent and made their life worse, maybe that he's too old, but may not
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like the republican alternative better and the republicans could lose. elizabeth: who knows. but the thing is inflation coming out of the trump white house is 1.4% and democrats are raising the alarm about the risk that biden could lose in 2024. watch this. >> look, the only thing i'm going to say about this poll didn't surprise me and a year out, you know, warned everybody knows and i'm now the famous one tries to warn everybody in 15 and 16 we had a problem and nobody listened. the thing about these polls, it's getting people's attention. elizabeth: yeah, democrats are waking up and it is a problem. congresswoman debbie dingell says that. >> she's right. right. you talk about bidenomics. elizabeth: the president saying i'm growing the economy from the middle out and bottom up. it's not working. john carney pointed out, 32 straight months of inflation and harvard found two-thirds of households at the bottom 20% of
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income bracket pay over half income in rent and utilities. you know, i hear what you're saying loud and clear. people want a third candidate choice and look at alternatives and seeing chicago voters in an uproar over the border collapse hitting them and the resources they need to survive, that fight in la breaking out, in new york city and from coast-to-coast, when you see the lower bracket saying, wait a second, what is happening with this white house policies hitting my pocketbook they sit up and take notice and temporal integration democrats are taking notice right now. >> you're 100% right and rational actor would take that all into account and make that choice. but the -- see here, the thing is you've got joe biden who's probably the weakest incumbent that a major party has ever put up; right. wouldn't it make sense to choose somebody who makes sense to
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choose somebody as popular as him or crush him in the polls and win in a landslide? in donald trump is winning by 4% just outside the margin of error meaning it's a tossup. nikki haley defeats him before 17 points. elizabeth: biden by 17 points? >> yeah, biden. and look at new york times sienna poll with all the swing states. trump is leading biden slightly many most of those. nikki haley crushes joe biden in every swing state and wins wisconsin by 13 points so the question we should be asking ourselves as republicans is do we want to risk passing up the opportunity by nominating somebody that could lose and trump could win, it's possible. everyone will say that our lives were better under trump but they said that in october of 2020. the gallop poll right before the election, every year the gallop poll asks before the election: are you better off than you were four years ago,
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and trump had more -- had the highest approval of any president and still lost. elizabeth: got it, mar marc thiessen, thank you so much. appreciate you. >> thank you. elizabeth: get to mark lawrence and he was sitting inside the presser with the president and president of ukraine and edward lawrence was breaking the news on inflation also and digging into the numbers. edward is the expert and he's a great journalist. edward, what did you find? reporter: yeah, liz, the president did not talk about economics in the trading room where i just came from here but on inflation, the president hasn't said the word bidenomics, but we are seeing inflation come down but it's not the prices that are dropping, it's the rate of increase that is becoming less and less. now, he's been saying, the president for about 30 months that the peak happened last june and now it was well into his presidency there. cpi inflation at 3.1% and the numbers have not been in his
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favor for the past several months and 32 monarchies in a row there was no 2 in front of it and 34 monarchies into the presidency and watching core inflation and 4% is what it is year over year and that's the sticky inflation and hard to get rid of in republicans because of the president biden policies. >> i can't explain why they support these and they're so destructive to america and open borders and war on fossil fuel and embarrassing and dangerous surrender in afghanistan and elmore boldening people like the ayatollahs and the democratic government needs defeated. reporter: look at from the month that president biden came into office and unadjusted terms from that date and overall inflation is up 17% and energy up 35% from january 2021 through the latest report. electricity alone is up 24%, food at the grocery store is up about 20% since president biden took office.
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these are the things people feel, see, and part of the reason president biden cannot re-message his economy. >> thanks to the democratic work on ira, 2023 has been a banner year for american job creation and american manufacturing at the same time getting inflation and the cost to american families down. reporter: even chuck schumer trying to re-message to the economy and need it over and over with a bit more time for prices coming back down and we've been hearing, liz, for about 30 months. back to you. elizabeth: check's in the mail too. edward lawrence, thank you so much. always great reporting from you, my friend. great to have you on. now checking in with dagen and sean for the bottom line. jaire hey, e smokers m ac -- >> hey, e smo mac. speaker johnson wants transparency as well as serious
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border changes and dan crenshaw there as well as mark morano talking about cop 28 angry there's no agreement to phase out fossil fuels. >> clay travis and christopher russo here on claudine gay at harvard, the president there, being able to keep her job and how it's a lot more than just codifying anti-semitism on that campus. it's about keeping an ideology in place that rewards adversity and diminishes merit and destroyed higher education in this nation, and it'll continue to do so unless we all shout to the high heavens. top of the hour. elizabeth: yeah, carol rolf said it's like an induct reigns leading nation on the highest form. washington journal report, it's rattling dc that china unleashed cyber attack, a cyber army to
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invade and disrupt critical u.s. ibram frank siller structure as part of the broader -- infrastructure as part of the broader effort and china will panic and chaos to force the u.s. to stand down on any conflict in the pacific. fox news jewel jillian turner with more from the state department. jillian. >> good evening, liz. china's war of cyber warriors are ramping up attacks on key u.s. infrastructure and trying to sew panic in the u.s. military and potential of u.s. china conflict in the pacific and they're facing chinese threat head on and chinese military hackers targeting the 2024 presidential election and issue on a number of americans and cyber espionage and cyber techniques. >> all part of what is being
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called new disruption play book and up ending american's daily lives. they've already had success and hackers success from the liberation army attacked two dozen major systems many the past year and includes water ewe 'til any in hawaii and major west coast port and oil and gas pipeline. experts warning china's plans are much larger. >> what china is trying to do is cyber intrusions, land in weight and at the right moment attack ports, water supply, attack energy supplies to prevent the united states from projecting military power forward so in short, they're preparing for war. >> well, in response, the national security agency is standing up a presidential election task force to try and protect against the chinese hackers in the 2024 presidential election. liz. elizabeth: jillian turner, great reporting. thank you. joins us from the house homeland security. congressman carlos gimenez.
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your reaction to that report? this is concerning and rattling lawmakers in dc and hearing the white house as well that china on top of all of what jillian reported tried to break into the operator of the texas power grid and operate independently from the assistance from the u.s. and it's the electrical system not connected and the level of china's intrusion here and their intent is deeply worrying. >> yes, it is and today there's a hearing in homeland security and cybersecurity issues here in the united states and becoming more and more apparent to us that china is preparing to launch some kind of all out cyber attack on the united states and in fact we find ourselves in conflict with them over taiwan and what's really scary is an army of folks launching all of the attacks against us but now with artificial intelligence, just a handful of people can start to
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launch and u.s. officials and, yeah, it's how they plan the flag. elizabeth: they went after a port on the west coast, that's china, saying we could shut down a port and they went into a water system in hawaii and shut down water in hawaii and went into texas' power grid saying we can shut down the bower grid during the heat wave, who knows. >> they can do that and much, much more. these are just probing attacks. >> the hearings and what is the department of homeland security doing to make sure that we are resilient in any attack that china may launch against us. this is going to be artificial intelligence against artificial intelligence and who has the
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smarter artificial intelligence will win out and we have to have resilience and that is in fact an attack ten penetrating our system and grid and we're right here and disconnect that and go back to more of a manual metal detectors and we don't have them as vulnerable as we could be if we just relied on digital systems. elizabeth: it's likely a good thing that us power grid and each state and region has their own systems and not interconnected and that's a good thing. so there's this concern and, congressman, you've heard this, the united nations, they just wrapped up their big climate summit in dubai but now gore is outraged and there's no mention of doing away with fossil fuels anywhere in the official wrapup they didn't do enough to say, yeah, faze out fossil fuels and people in afghanistan and more say you want to keep us in poverty and push back against
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them from other nations saying we want economic growth. we want prosperity. stop telling us what to do we got to do what we need to get electricity and power we need. this is happening with china. >> the path to prosperity is cheap energy and the cheapest energy right now is t fossil fus and al gore can't get the countries to agree to stop yaws it and it shows you how out of touch al gore is. the world will need fossil fuels and for a long time, 70, 80, 90 years into the future and should be american fossil fuel that should be powering the world. we can reduce carbon dioxide emission and reduce to natural gas in the united states and we can use around the world. elizabeth: i have to move to this, argentina, argentina's new president is rejecting socialism
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and communism in south america, which is loaded with a lot of nations suffering under communism and socialism. congressman, you with your family fled the russian come in addition and promising the people he'll slash the government and he's doing it. he cut the number of government officoffices and bureaucracies a dozen and he's not finished yet and this is the first time argentina is not ruled by socialist communist in a decade. this is a big turning point against america's battle against hyper inflation and decline. >> he's saying he wants to dollarize the argentina economy and the argentina economy is running at 1,000% inflation and this is a breath of fresh air. i hope that the united states actually helps him, supports him and he's a friend of the united states and unfortunately far too
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many times biden will try to hurt our friends and then help our enemies. this guy is really one of our friends and i'm glad that some of my colleagues went down for the inauguration and really good vapes out of him and his ministers, and we need to support this and support more of this down in central and south america. we need to focus on our own backyard and helping our own nebraskas and this is a step in the right direction. elizabeth: congressman gem, thank you for sharing your -- congressman gimenez, thank you for sharing your story and updates. we brought you the story last week and now this is happening, a green energy company caught defrauding seniors. that's the accusation against them. but the biden white house is now facing a congressional probe for sending billions of your tax dollars to this solar company accused of scamming the elderly. we have a victim's daughter and
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claims her 86-year-old father, he suffers from dementia, he's passed away from that, he was scammed too into signing a $34,000, 25-year solar panel lease. let's take a listen. >> they were paying monthly bills to sonova of about $176 and still had electric bills of about $40 or $50. i did the math and actually they would have been better off looking at it to have just paid the regular electric bill. >> yeah, that sounds about right. ♪ liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. with the money i saved, i started a dog walking business. i was a bit nervous at first but then i figured it's just walking, right? [dog barks] oh. no it's just a bunny! calm down taco. sit duchess. stop!
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elizabeth: let's welcome congressman greg stuebe from house ways and means, news coming in on story, last week, lawmakers are probing biden white house, giving 3 billion dollar loan, to a company called sunnova, who is accused of scamming elderly dementia patients. >> this is why the government should not pick winners and losers and infrastructure package that biden and democrats passed was for the green new energy deals to forward their leftist progressive agenda and do away with any type of fossil fuels in the u.s.,
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this sun sustain an -- is unsustainable. we're just not at a place where technology is affordable and available for the american people to be successful. and the government is getting involved, instead of letting the free market dictate what is best for america. sunnova accused of signing up elderly with dementia to decades long solar panel leases. that we're hearing are expensive, sunnova gave fox business a statement saying: >> f your reaction. >> my understanding we have
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congressional committees that will investigate this, we'll get to the bottom of the details in the fact, if they were in fact committing fraud, i read about a story in texas and florida, the congressional committees will do proper over site to ensure that companies are not defrauding our seniors. elizabeth: congressman, the complaint, is that money is flying out the door unchecked with no strings attached biden white house has a 400 billion dollar green energy loan program overseen by an insider. >> yes, the problem of these programs of the biden administration. it is giving this money to private companies, and you, the taxpayer, you are not involved in that decision, the white house is making the decisions, people within
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the administration who are not elected by the people, and dictating where your tax dollars go to private companies that is why i didn't support infrastructure package and government supporting private city is not the way that america should -- industry is not the way that america should operate. we should operate in a fee mark free markettism congressman stuebe come back soon, merry christmas, we enjoyed having you on the show. >> tomorrow, mike huckabee, kevin o'leary. and will join us on house biden impeachment inquiry tomorrow, i am elizabeth macdonald. now it's time for my buddies. the bottom line with dagen and sean. dagen: thank you, emack. elizabeth: sure.

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