protests but not allowing for worship. both of those rights are in the first amendment, and i'm glad the judge made the ruling that he did. lou: pastor, thank you. thank you for being with us, everybody. ha a great weekend. we'll see you monday. good night from -- ♪ ♪ >> good evening, everybody, i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald, and this is "the evening edit." president trump just now signing an executive order protecting american monuments, me toarls and statues and combating recent criminal violence, saying there will be long prison terms for violaters. he also came out with a tweet announcing that he was not going to be going to his estate in bedminster, new jersey, this weekend as he had planned. he said i was going to go there, but i wanted to stay in washington, d.c. to make sure law and order is enforced.

the arsonists, anarchists, looters and agitators have been largely stopped. i am doing what is necessary to keep our community safe, and these people will be brought to justice. of course, protesters have threatened to topple the emancipation monument in washington, washington d.c. now one of the organizers telling fox the statue should not be toppled, but either be updated to depict the slave kneeling before abraham lincoln standing upright, or the whole thing should be moved to a museum. as of right now, it is still standing. it's surrounded by a single layer of chain-link fence which the national park service of says will stay in place until july 31st. this as president trump threatens serious consequences for anyone december desecrating -- desecrating our nation's statues and monuments. he just signedded that executive order to the point. let's brung in congressman jim banks of indiana, he's on the armed services committee. congressman, thank you for being

here. happy friday to you. first of all, the executive order, do you think that is going to be enforced -- will it be enforced, and how will it be enforced? >> well, i have no doubt the president is soars about enforcing existing -- serious about enforcing existing laws and adding new laws for more severe penalties for the angry mob who is responsible for towering down and desecrating our memorials. i've got to tell you back in washington, d.c. this week, i was heart broken to see the world war ii memorial where i meet with veterans all the time who come to visit from my district, from seeing that to visiting the lincoln statue that you just talked about. this is heartbreaking. my constituents are saying enough is enough -- david: right. >> -- do something about it and put those people behind bars who are trying to eliminate and erase our history by tearing down our monuments. that's what i'm hoping to do by introducing similar legislation to what the president signed executive --

david: well, and congressman, you put your finger on out. at first this was about confederate monuments, and you can argue either side of that. but then it went against abraham lincoln, andrew jackson, thomas jefferson, george washington, the father of our country. i mean, what they're interested in doing is not e a rousing the memory of -- erasing the memory of confederacy, they're interested in erasing the united states of america, erasing the constitution of the united states, erasing even actually it goes into jesus christ, we won't get into that argument, but the point is that americans realize this has much more to do with just the confederacy than it did with the entire american experiment. >> unquestionably, that's the truth. you think back to when these riots started, from the peaceful protests related to george floyd to violent protests in washington, d.c. and elsewhere. this has nothing to do with what happened to george floyd in

minneapolis. this is much different from that. these angry mobs want to erase america's history, our heritage. we can't allow it to happen. my constituents and americans all over this country are looking at washington, d.c. and demanding that our leaders from the president to the mayor of washington, d.c., our governors, our members of congress, they want us to do whatever it takes to stop it -- a. david: right. >> that's what president trump is trying to do, and i'm trying to help him. david: and, you know, like most mobs which consist of bullies, they're cowards. it took a run storm last night -- thaw had planned to take down this monument at 7 p.m., a rainstorm stopped them from doing it. if that's not a -- it just shows what they're really made of. let me just read to you though, frederick douglass who's a great man in american history, he was a black man who was an abolitionist, of course, and he dedicated this statue 11 years after abraham lincoln -- in fact, it was the 11th

anniversary of abraham lincoln's asaws nation. here's some of what he said: in due honor to our friend, the think about rater, we have been doing highest honors to ourselves and those who come after us. he's talking about black americans. we have been fastening ourselves to a name and fame imperishable and immortal, we have also been defending ourselves from a blighting scandal when now it shall said that the black man has no benefactors, when the foul ea reproach of ingratitude hurled at us and is attempted to scourge us beyond the rage of human brotherhood, we maw calmly pointed to this monument we have this day erected to the memory of abraham lincoln. for a great abolition u.s. like frederick douglass to have thought so much of that statue, to tower it down or change it the way the protesters now say they want to would be sacrilege. >> there's no question. i went down to visit this statue

yesterday, it's a beautiful statue. and a woman approached me, she saw that i was a member of congress. she owns a piece of property in the neighborhood, and she was so saddened by the fought that this statue -- the thought, she said she's a democrat. she said puppet a statue at the other end of the park of president obama, show how far we've come in american history, but do not tear down this statue. it's such an important piece of history with frederick douglass giving such a significant speech there at the dedication of the statue, as you mentioned. but this is what the left is intent upon doing. either they don't know american history at all, or they want to erase it altogether -- david: i think it's a combination of the two, congressman. and either one of which would be bad enough alone, but i think it's a combination of the two which says a lot about our education system. meanwhile, in terms of the role of police in this nation, we have the minneapolis city council -- of course, george floyd incident was in

minneapolis, so they've got a particular if guilt on their hands. but they just voted 12-0 to disband the police department entirely, to replace it with something called the department of community safety, a holistic public health approach. there's just no recognition that in every culture you can't dispense with the notion that there are people who are going to do bad things and need to be arrested and put away. they just are complete utopianists, and utopian experiments always turn out bad, don't they? >> when the, when the left started talking about defunding our police, many of my friends rugged their shoulders -- slugged -- shrugged their shoulders, but they actually mean it. that's what you saw this week but democrat efforts to remove and eliminate qualified immunity for our police officers. that would be a terrible move that would make it much harder for law enforcement officers to do the important work that they to. that's what the left stands for.

we have to take them at a their word that that's what they're trueing to accomplish, and minneapolis proves out. david: and to put all of these police injustices, and there have been injustices commit by police officers, clearly, and george is an example of that, to put it all into context, i want to get a sound bite from one of your colleagues in the senate, john kennedy, who spoke to this issue. let me just play that sound bite and get your reaction. go ahead, roll tape. >> when a muslim or jihaddist blows up a school, school churn, we're told don't judge all muslims by the action of a few, and boy, do i agree with that. how come the same rule doesn't apply to 800,000 cops in this country? tawfd david good question, isn't it? >> senator kennedy is always eloquent, makes a point very succinct lu are. it's a powerful point, and it's important to remember that our men and women in blue do important worker. there are ways that we can

reform police work, and that's why senator tim scott, kevin mccarthy tried to reach across the aisle to look at ways that we could do that but banning chokeholds, by national registries of police officers who abuse their power, other reforms where republicans and democrats agree. but that's not what you saw come to votes on the floor of congress this week. david: no. >> instead you saw political posturing. the american people have had enough of it, they see it for what it is -- david: more than political posturing, you had racially-tinged insults hurled at tim scott and other members of the republican community. it was really insulting, and we are going to be talking more about that later in the show. congressman banks, thank you so much for being here. have a grade weekend. >> thank you, good to be with you. david: markets falling as covid-19 cases spiking in certain states, particularly among younger americans. daily infections setting a new record hue, sparking new warnings from the federal

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or not, now is not the time to be careless because the consequences are dead lu. watch. >> we can be either part of the solution or part of the problem. so i just want to make a plea with people when they understand the stress that they're under. as we try to tackle not only those states, but the light-colored part of the country even though they've done well, they may have gotten hit badly like new york and then came down, or they may not have gotten hit badly at all. they are vulnerable. if we don't extinguish the outbreak, sooner or later even ones that are doing well are going to be vulnerable to the spread. david: let's welcome former louisiana governor bobby jindal to talk about all of this. governor, great to see you. thank you for being here. so the main question that came out for me anyway and i think for a lot of americans, is there any way to combat these spikes that are taking place and continue to reopen?

doing both at the same time? >> thank you, david, for having me. we need to remember this is a marathon. this is not going to be over in a couple days or weeks, but having said that, we must reopen the economy and keep our people safe. i think there are two very distinct approaches. on one hand, you've got governors that trust their people, they're open with them, transparent with them, they're telling them we've got to mountain capacity in the hospitals, the icus, the ventilate arers, and as people act responsibly, we'll continue to open more and more of the economy. for example, you saw that in texas, florida, arizona. when they had a spike in texas, thaw e didn't shut down the economy, they said maybe we need to is suspend elective procedures. not across the entire state, but in four counties to make sure those hospitals have capacity. that's in contrast with some of these blue state governors that are making much more of a top-down approach. they're saying you can't go to church, but you can protest plus. you can't go to a trump rally are, but you can tear down

statues. that's when you lose credibility, and you need to be transparent with the american people. david: governor cuomo's been doing some finger-pointing, almost taking rell you should in the facts that there are spikes in other states. here's what he had to say yesterday. roll tape. >> oh, i say to them all, look at the numbers. you play politics with this virus and you're lost. you told the people of your state and you told the people of this country, white house, don't worry about out. just open up, go about your business, this is all democratic hyperbole. oh, really? now you see 27 states with the numbers going up. you see the death projections going up. you see the economy going down. it was never politics, it was always science. david: now, i would say, governor, that cuomo's in no position to do finger-pointing, or he has no bragging rights particularly when you think of the appalling situation in the nursing homes. now it turns out there are about 6,000 people who have died

because of an awful discussion that he made that was not made by the governor in florida and other governors, and look at this. the covid mortal few rates -- mortality rates of those blue states that you were mentioning who had serious lockdowns, new york, 7.5%. new jersey, 7.5%. michigan, a mortality rate of 8.7%. now, compare that to the states that have had a more open policy. georgia, 3.4%. they opened ability a month ago. florida, 2.6%. arizona, 2.4%. they're -- the lockdown states have three times the mortality rates of these states that have been opening, so who has the bragging rights? >> david, look, you're exactly right. if he would stop talking to cnn and maybe talk to you and other reporters, maybe they'd ask these questions. people with covid were forced into these nursing homes and senior loving centers where there -- living centers where a lot of people were infected because of that. secondly, when you look -- first they were focused on mortality

rates, and remember at first it was we were going to run out of ventilators, then they said, no, no, it's the number of cases. it looks to be a lot more young people are now getting covid, and most of them are recovering. again, we shouldn't be come mace sent, but with we need to be objective because he's the thing that cuomo doesn't want to talk about, shutting down the economy has real, negative consequences especially for lower income families. so we've got to reopen the economy. the worst thing we could do is to do what happened in the early spring where they shut down the economy for two -- david: right. forgive me, governor, but look at the mortality rates of countries in europe that had complete shutdowns. huge mortalities, 15% in italy, 14 in u.k., 19% mortality, covid mortal few rate in france -- mortality rate in france. but in the united states, 5%. trump has beat up people like biden and other folks are saying that he's responsible for a much worse situation than they had in europe.

it's not true. europe had a far worse mortality rate by a factor of three than the united states. >> no, and look, let's be generous, let's concede maybe it made sense to shut down the economy initially, make sure the hospitals weren't overwhommed. we're not there right now. we need to do this on a local basis, so if there are local counties in trouble, they need different restrictions. secondly, give credit where credit due, credit our doctors, front-line health care workers d. david: yes, absolutely. >> we know a lot more about this virus. even before we get to a vaccine. and give credit to donald trump. they put an unprecedented amount of money into making a vaccine, operate warp speed. whichever vaccine crosses the finish line first, they'll be ready to manufacture hundreds of millions of doses much more quickly than some other countries. david: i agree. great to see you, governor. have a great weekend. >> you as well. thank you, david. david: coming up, speaker pelosi accusing republicans of murder,

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♪ ♪ david: the democrats' reare fusal to engage with republicans on police reform went virtually unnoticed by the media as were racist insults against senator scott by senator durbin and speaker pelosi's outrageous accusation that republicans were complicit in george floyd's murder. so do voters really know what's going on here? let's welcome "the hill" media reporter, joe concha. joe, great to see you. i've never seen such outrageous attacks, and i grew up in washington, d.c., so i know what existed, what people used to do. but to accuse people of murder -- in fact, let me just play the sound bite of nancy pelosi for those who doubt what i'm saying. here's -- roll tape and then we'll get joe's response. >> for something to happen, they're going to have to face the reality of police brutality, the reality of the need for justice in policing and the recognition that there are many,

many good people in law enforcement but not all. so far they were trying to get away with murder, actually, the murder of george floyd. david: to accuse an entire political party of murder, that's historic, but it didn't get much press. >> i would think that would be a lead story on the evening news, that the house speaker a accused the senate republicans, and that includes tim scott, but the way, who just literally wrote a proposal, wrote a bill around police reforms, to lump him in with that as well. you talked about dick durbin using the word token as it applied to senator scott. these are comments being made by somebody who knows she can get away with them because she'll never be challenged on making such outrageous statements. and this is the same nancy pelosi, by the way, who put the country through several months of an impeachment she knew was going to fail because she didn't have close to the votes in the senate. this is somebody who tore up the state of the union right

after -- that was earlier this year as well. i keep hearing this is a genius politician, but this appears to be an unhinged politician with really no interest whatsoever in helping the country through what is one of the most troubling and difficult times we've ever been in. it's not moving the ball forward, it's to divide and conquer. david david then you have other things that are not being reported on like, for example, another gaffe by vice president biden. let me just play that and get your reaction. >> people don't have a job, people don't have anywhere to go. they don't know what they're going to do. and a lot of people, you have unnecessarily, now we have over 120 million can dead from covid. david: 120 million people. need eless to say, that figure is just a little bit off. >> and this has happened before, right? and the former vice president did correct himself, but but yoe what happens when you put him in situations outside -- i'm joe in a basement right now, so i

totally get it -- [laughter] but when he's no longer scripted, yeah, that's what happens. remember, he said in the debate earlier this year that 150 million americans have died from gun violence, which is basically, you know, half the population. this is somebody who has referred to banning all ar-14s, and i think he meant ar-15s. there's an ar-16, i found that horrifying, but this happens time and time and time again, but joe biden doesn't seem to be affected by it because his polls keep going up because he doesn't have to be put in these situations. david, once those debates happen, that's a whole different ball game. david: the press is acting like nfl blockers ahead of a runner. they're blocking all of these errors that he's making and just sort of ignoring them entirely whereas if the public knew about it, his numbers -- but the way, it should be pointed out that there was a poll from wisconsin, which is going to be a major state of contention between biden and donald trump. 49-41, was that number.

it was just taken this week. that's an 8% difference. but i went back and looked at four years ago to the day, and there was another poll from wu four years -- from wu four years ago which showed hillary with an 8-point victory or an 8-point lead over donald trump. exactly the same amount as it is now. >> isn't it amazing? and that's probably why hillary clinton didn't go to wisconsin, basically ignored michigan, and donald trump was able to take those two states plus pennsylvania and that got him the election. to paw attention to polls in june of 2020 when we saw what happened in june of 2016, what happened in november of 2016, when you consider that george h.w. bush was down by 19 points to michael dukakis, who you could argue was actually a better candidate than joe biden is? i don't think we should be talking about these things right now. in february if you told me that

coronavirus and somebody named george floyd and the protests that happened after that horrific killing were going to be the two biggest topics right now, i'd say, what are you talking about? so, yeah, a lot can change between now and then, and joe biden is not an inspiring candidate that should give anybody confidence that he's going to be in for a cake walk. david: the journalistic malpractice is just -- i've never seen it as bad as it is now. thank goodness joe concha's around the monitor the situation. thank you very much, joe. >> thank you, david. my anniversary's tonight. david: oh, congratulations. happy anniversary. well, china is rattling sabers at its neighbors, but some experts say it's really a message to the u.s. we're going to be asking the hudson institute's michael pillsbury what is behind it all and how america should respond. ♪ ♪

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space of taiwan. the territorial waters of japan and even getting into a border skirmish with india that has reportedly killed dozens of soldiers on both sides. so what is china's goal, and should we intervene? let's can hudson institute's director for chinese strategy, the great michael pillsbury. good to see you, michael, thank you for being here. we know that china wants taiwan. they've always wanted taiwan. the question is when will they make a move, how will they make a move, and how do we respond? go ahead. >> this is being watched very closely by our defense department, david. i think we're all trying to understand something called xi jinping thought. china's powerful now, so it's time for china to complete its unification, as they call it x. taiwan an area that is very, very sensitive. everybody knows exactly where the two our forces patrol in the midline of the strait, the

chinese have been crossing over that midline. our new air force chief of staff has just explained today that usually china's bombers, so-called h-6 bombers, they only go up every two or three months. now china has started flying those bombers every day. so this is a signal that we need to be on alert. david: well, meanwhile, we're looking at pictures of xi with the head of the world health organization, dr. today degrees, which we have sort of taken off of our list of charitable institutions. but it's clear that the chinese at least have been trying to persuade the w.h.o. by doving the doctor and his ex-country a lot of money which leads us to wonder how much, how they are bribing the rest of the world. even the vatican, by the way. there was talk today of as much as $2 billion going from the chinese government, maybe less than that, but even if it's $200

million, ten times less than that, it's a lot of money to persuade the chinese government -- or to persuade the people in the vatican including the pope to do things their way. what do you know about this? >> well, i i think president trump is standing up to this. i think you heard him say that the chinese contribution to the w.h.o. is is only about 10% of ours. and so it's just not right, if you will met me say this, they kowtow to china so much when, in fact, they should be quite friendly to america. this is part of a broader xi jinping thought approach, that china wants to control all 15 of the u.n. agencies. not just the w.h.o.. they've already got three others that are led by chinese citizens. and ideally, they want all 15 to be either chinese nationals or the deputy director would be chinese. david: right. >> this is a very important part of their propaganda, that the

new world order led but china is very good for everybody, and if i e spread a little bit of cash around to make it happen, why, that's okay too. president trump is standing up to this, david. he's the first president -- david: let's be specific here. what happens when we give money through our institutions,a.i.d. or whomever at the state department, we have to account for that money. when china gives money to w.h.o. or to the vatican or to governments around the world, they can do it a lot -- in a much more clever way from their perspective. [laughter] in a much more bribing, clear bribing kind of way where $2 million goes to this individual, $2 million to that individual. isn't that the way their kind of cruxes differ from ours? -- contributions differ from ours? >> i don't want to the offend the chinese too much, david, but it's a little bit like the mafia. they show up with suitcases, and they'll actually transfer a million dollars to a cabinet minister in a southern country

just -- sovereign country just to get him to do something to stay on china's side. this is completely illegal in our system. we have something called the foreign corrupt practices act. if any company tries to do that or anything close to it, the executives who do it go to prison. so china has exempted itself, and it's pretty brazen to be delivering suitcases full of cash. by the way, it's american dollars. david: right. >> we're still the number one currency in the world. david: that's a great point. by the withdraw, a lot of people were wondering whey the vatican gave china so much lee waw in terms of the influence they had on the catholic church in china, that the communist party actually gets to sign off on bishops in china as a result of the deal with the vatican, which is extraordinary. maybe, just maybe, i'm not saying i have the evidence for this, some of this money has something to do with that discussion. michael pillsbury, always a pleasure to see you, sir. thank you for being here. >> thanks, david. david: thank you. we want to alert everyone to

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action called a vivid action, and that is to go after a federal investigator that suits someone's constitutional rights. it's specific for that occasion, and i hope that he's looking at it strongly. david: so, ford, if he does have a case as was just laid out, who does he sue? >> well, i think he's going to have to sue the federal government and the fbi, and here's the reason. withholding of evidence the reason why he can pursue a bivens action for damages. that's the best way we're going to find out what exactly happened because i find when the federal government has to pay out money, we actually get to the bottom of what's going on. david: now, you also have within these peter strzok written hand notes and, of course, we don't know whether they're actually true or not, but he suggested that not only was vice president biden there when all this was being with discussed, but he was the one, vice president biden was the one who suggested use the logan act, this obscure act

that has never had a conviction under its name. that that be used as the way to go after general flynn. would -- does he have any liability here? could flynn sue biden? >> i don't think, you know, flynn could sue biden, but it does mean biden wants to be president of the united states, and he has a lot to answer for and, frankly, it's ridiculous that the national media doesn't bring this up. i think what those notes show you is there was a coordinated effort to undermine the incoming trump presidency without a legal bay us for doing so. and that's the -- basis for doing so. and that's the real crime. this was about politics and the obama administration, the fbi did not care about the peaceful transfer of power or the fact that donald trump was a legitimately-elected president of the united states. david dave now, do you think americans will care? i know trump supporters, the one-third of voters who were real dyed in the wool trump supporters, they care. but the muddle ground and, of course, the left doesn't care at all but, in fact, thaw still support the russian theory.

the middle ground, that one-third in the middle, do they care? could president trump use all this information on the campaign trail to his advantage? >> absolutely because, basically, he can make the case that joe biden is a lying hypocrite. you know, right now when you look at joe biden's numbers in the polls, he has very high name id, but he's not very well defined. and what donald trump can make the case is that joe biden is not who he says he is. in fact, he's a trojan horse for the far left of his party. david: i want to switch gears to something else that i know is near and dear to your heart, but the mail hundred ballot issue. i've been -- mail-in ballot issue. some people saw, look, we've been doing this many for years without any trouble. yes, there were some instances somewhere, but since we've been doing it before, why should we be concerned about it now, to which you would say what? >> it is the largest source of potential voter fraud. that's not me saying it, it's jimmy carter on the commission

of election reform. look, here's the big concern with mail-in voting. is the person who actually puts in the ballot who they saw either? there's no real way for us to verify that because, generally speaking, ballots are destroyed after a certain amount of time, and we don't really have the type of process that can verify that the person who's submitting the ballot is really who they say they are. so that's the real concern. and will be, if we are looking to flip a presidential election, you only need about 100,000 fraudulent ballots across about five states. it's really that simple. that's what we should be worried about, the integrity of the election process. david: after all, the chinese are good at hacking very sophisticated computer programs. cheerly, they could -- clearly, they could print some phony ballots, right? >> well, they could do a million different things. we just need to be able to make sure that the people in america are confident that our election integrity is this. that is our primary concern. but, yes, going forward we're

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♪ ♪ david: welcome back. i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. now to the latest border battle, and the commissioner on capitol hill defending an emergency order to quickly expel mexican migrants at the u.s. border during the coronavirus pandemic. watch. >> the cdc order has been a critically important tool in the fight against this public health cry us. it allows cbp to prevent the introduction and further spread of this virus in an effort to protect the american people, our work force and the immigrants

themselves. let's be clear, this order is not about immigration enforcement, it's about taking immediate and decisive actions to address the public health threat that still continues today. and early on after that order we saw those trying to illegally enter our country drop by more than 50% from a pre-covid number. david: let's talk about all this with congresswoman debbie lesko e from arizona. it's a border state, also a member of the homeland security committee, and you might have seen her this week at the border with the president. good to see you, congresswoman, thank you for being here. >> thank you. it's great to be here. david: you know, we used to have a policy that didn't, you know, most people just assumed it was pretty obvious of forbidding people who had very contagious diseases from entering into the united states back around the turn of the century, a hundred years ago. it was usually tuberculosis or some disease like that. now it's covid. i don't understand why it's so

controversial to issue something which has stood this country well for hundreds of years. >> well, i'm also on judiciary committee along with homeland security committee, and i can tell you that i don't understand often some of my democratic colleagues. i mean, they vilify the border patrol officers. when the border patrol officers are doing a good job securing our nation. and i really have to applaud president trump. he talked about securing the border from day one, and he's done it. that's why we went down to the border. i flew with him on our force one, and we had a round table where we talked about the issues that are happening on the ground and what improvements have been made in security in yuma, arizona. and then we actually went, drove down to the border, saw the big new 30-foot-tall fence. we signed a plaque that

commemorated 200 new miles of fence. and president trump's getting it done. he's been following through with what he said he was going to do. david: he is, undeed. and i'm just curious what your constituents think about it because a lot of people just assumed it was a debate inside the capitol not recognizing that the people who love on the border were being -- who live on the border were being terrorized by all this. of course, a lot of drug dealers coming in with weapons, terrorizing them literally like that. but just to have people walk across constantly, walking across your property is a terrifying thing. are they satisfied now with the work that's being done on the border? >> well, they sure are happy that president trump is our president, because he's actually doing something about it versus the previous administration that wanted to basically open up the borders. i'm telling you, i see firsthand how my democratic colleagues

prioritize illegal immigrants over u.s. citizens. they virtually want open borders which could, you know, you have drug trafficking, you have human and sex trafficking. and, of course, now we have coronavirus. so to what you and i think is common sense and building a wall so you can legally funnel people in an orderly fashion through the border, my democrat colleagues really want open borders, and i just think it's insane. david: now, one thing you don't hear about anymore, and maybe it's just not in the news because there's so much other news, but the cower vans. have -- caravans. have they ended? has the word gotten out in latin america and elsewhere that, in fact, the border security is much tighter than it was and, therefore, we shouldn't bother starting another cower van? what's happening there? >> well, yeah. those caravans of people, that has definitely slowed down. what was happening before president trump stepped in is

that people knew that they could just claim asylum and very easily e get into our country and then wait for sometimes years to see see a federal judge and claim asylum. most of them were denied, but by then they'd already gotten into the united states, and they didn't show up to court. so it was a real easy way for them to get across the border. and, yes, my constituents care about this issue. all of arizona cares about this issue. before coronavirus took hold this year, border security was the number one polling issue in arizona because it's not just the border communities that suffer. all those drugs come up into the phoenix corridor. there's sex trafficking, there's violence. david: right. >> i mean, these are -- these drug cartels are not nice people. they're nasty. david: congresswoman, let me be clear about it. i married an immigrant from central america. there are a lot of central american that are horrified by

the human trafficking that was going on between the border. that alone is a reason why even if you're an immigrant from that, those areas, you should be concerned about a what's going on here. >> oh, you're totally right. and, you know, they were using kids, those drug cartels and human trafficking cartels were using children, you know, to try to, you know, get better access for a asylum. it was a gimmick. it was what they told these immigrants to do, and then a they ship 'em back down to central america -- david: horrible. >> -- and use them again. it was absolutely horrible what these people will do. they don't care about the immigrants -- david: of course not. >> you know, it's awful. and we need to stop it. and thank god that president trump has done it. david: all right. well, congresswoman, we thank you for your work as well. debbie lesko, have a wonderful weekend. again, we thank you for coming in. happy july 4th, but the way. that's just a week away. >> thank you.

david: i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. we hope you have a wonderful weekend. we'll see you back here next week. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> from the fox studios in new york city, this is maria bartiromo's "wall street." maria: happy weekend, everyone. welcome to the program that analyzes the week that was and helps position you for the week ahead. we've got a big show this weekend. coming up, investing venture capital legend alan patricof is here, then later, phil ruden joining me to talk about phase two of new york city's reopening. but first, the u.s. has hit an all-time high in new covid cases this week as recent spikes have some concerned that the targeted shutdowns in certain regions could be necessary to slow