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it ain't over until it's over. we've got more on that and also now this. cnn anchor who criticized hunter biden for cashing in on his father's name. plus former deputy independent counsel saul wise enberg, on the growing problems with james comey denying dozens of times under oath in testimony yesterday that he had any knowledge of the basic details of the fbi trump-russia probe that he ran. tonight we debate this, how can government give a person who claims to have such a bad memory the power to approve devastating probes that ruin peoples lives and critics say for that matter, if comey has such a bad memory, why would you even want to buy his book? former national security council chief of staff fred fleitz, why the american people should demand to see all the documents about the allegations that the hillary clinton and her campaign

signed off on the plan to make up the trump-russia collusion story to. fbi and cia are bawling at releasing those documents. with with. ford o'connell. using democrats own words in the past in 2016 against them. and the senate republicans new threat if democrats continue to stonewall. former california republican gubernatorial candidate john cox on this new american moment. the 2020 race is now the most litigated election ever. it is only october 1st. we have this feel-food story for you. u.s. marshals director donna washington joins us on the one of most heroic stories in a while. rescue of more than 1300 missing children in since 2016. i'm elizabeth macdonald.

"the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay. welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. get you up to speed on this. d.c. is still fighting over covid-19 relief. it is leading to growing fears that more than 30,000 airline workers could begin to be furloughed starting today. this industry is in distress. this is all happening as washington is now embroiled in a new fight. there are reports of biden's debate negotiator asking for a mute button in the next debate which is a town hall in october, on october 15th in miami. the biden campaign is now denying this. welcome louisiana senator bill cassidy back to the show. great to have you back on, senator. what do you think of this mute button idea. is it a good or bad idea? the idea mute the mic after the opponent starts talking for two minutes. what do you think of this idea? >> i think it is a terrible

idea. i say that as unvarnished the last debate was. the american people still learned stuff. you learned that donald trump is who donald trump is. joe biden will raise your taxes -- [inaudible]. so you still learn a little bit more of the unvarnished than somebody controlling the mic. elizabeth: as we said last night there was an interruption every minute. we've been talking about how trump was blamed for a the lot of interruptions. you're touching on something that the trump campaign is feeling. that, they're claiming that the commission on presidential debates is harboring biases against them. we have to report that the commission is a non-partisan organization run by both republicans and democrats. it is chaired by both a republican and a democrat but you know, so there is that fight going on. we're not sure if this mute button idea will be in place by the next town hall. we'll report it back to you.

but i want to get into this, show what the media and democrats are saying about cancel the next debate, don't do more debates. watch this. >> so very simple question, after what went down this evening do you think joe biden should participate in a second or third debate? >> should the next two debates go on as scheduled? >> i wouldn't be surprised by the way, if this is the last presidential debate. >> should there be other debates? >> are really going to repeat, have another two of these? >> we have to hear from the presidential commission on debates tomorrow. we can't do two more of these. >> why are we bothering with a discussion of the rules of format, of time limits, of moderators at all when we have just seen what is going to happen? elizabeth: okay. you know, we hear what this

debate is about. senator, the issue pointing out, trump will be trump. moderators will need to know that change. he doesn't care about the norms. he thinks the norms are rigged against him. his campaign saying he was blasting through every question question and steam rolling. we're not saying good or bad, right or wrong, but that's what happened. is that what you're saying too? >> totally. if it actually hurt the president's performance as democrats want to say, then heck, they should want him to debate once more. if the president really stepped on his message and looked bad. that is not the reason they're trying to protect joe biden. they're relieved as came out as well as he did. newt gingrich said on fox. joe did not have to stumble. that ask all he had to do. president comes across the way middle america comes across as

obnoxious. he is a big guy. he can learn. own the other hand bias should be to give american people more information, not less information. these debates give the american people more information. elizabeth: yeah, that is the same debate his pressers on covid-19. i mean, people at "the new york times" and edit page elsewhere were saying censor the covid pressers. networks shouldn't show them. that is road to censorship that is the road to censorship. when you have top down analysis oh, we don't like it shut it down. that is not the way to go. show the american people everything. the american people are adults. they can decide for themselves. is that what you're saying? >> liz, i'm totally with you, the idea some elite will decide what we the american people should receive, if they don't like it we can't receive it, we decide whether we tune in or not. we decide by deciding whom we vote for so my point being more

information's better. it is in the spirit of the debates. if the president does things that work to his disadvantage, democrats should love that. if the president, no, he is actually speaking to folks, maybe there is a different form of communication the president is practicing. elizabeth: well the president is also saying he will continue to do what the media won't. talk about biden and his family's pay-to-play conflicts of interest. treasury department and bank documents show details of what weren't on and this is the senate homeland security and senate finance joint probe. watch cnn's john king say hunter biden is a weakness for his father. watch this. >> hunter bide in many ways a weakness for the former vice president because of his work. i will call it out he is swamp creature, like many people trading on his family name to make money around the world. >> okay. that is cnn's john king. is the media, some of them waking up, what do you think? >> you know the president can go there. i actually thought the president

could have spoken more about what policies, positive things he has done for minorities. what wonderful things he has done for health care. the left will say, yeah, right, wait a second. talk about his record on race. he started to touch on it. his sentencing reformal loud people to leave jail through who joe biden's legislation put into jail. his support of historically black universities is greatest of any president there has been. you can interview the presidents of historically black colleges and universities. little things. jack johnson, a boxer, first black heavyweight. trump pardoned him for what most folks look at a made-up charge, that robbed him of his title. trump was the one that pardoned him t was a symbolic gesture and a great gesture. i can keep going down the list

with economy created record low unemployment for african-americans, hispanics and others. i like the president to talk about his positives. he accomplish accomplished a loss in 47 months. we need to focus on positives. elizabeth: snort, appreciate -- senator appreciate it. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: former independent counsel. sol wise enburg, the problem james comey denying many times under oath in front of senate judiciary any details of the trump-russia probe that he ran. we debate how can government give a person who claims to have such a bad memory, the power to approve devastating wiretaps and surveillance and probes that ruin people's lives and bankrupt them? for that matter if comey has such a bad memory, why woe you even want to buy his book? that story next. >> see what happened with the fbi. comey either has the worst

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supreme court nominee amy barrett. use the democrats own words against them from 2016. quote, you have the responsibility to do it. follow the law and do it. your reaction to this. >> i think it's important to remind senate democrats and the public of what senate democrats position were in 2016 and how hypocritical they are acting today. the fact remains is that president trump and mitch mcconnell have the constitution and historical precedent on their side and the democrats are just very unhappy about the fact that they lost out at the ballot box in 2014, 2016 and 2018 when it comes to controlling the united states senate. elizabeth: you know, democrats keep saying this is unusual and wrong to try to seat amy barrett, judge barrett now. in the last 120 years half a dozen justices were confirmed during election years including justice anthony kennedy confirmed the last year of the reagan administration. it is not unusual. it happened in the past. >> no, it absolutely has happened in the past. it happened six times since

1900. you have to understand this whole garland rule and whining about merrick garland, it's a fairytale created by the democrats because harry reid nuked the senate filibuster in 2013. republicans took control of the senate in 2014. they realized they were shut out of power. this is because they lost power at the ballot box. now they want to move the goalpost. elizabeth: you just hit on something because they're hoisted by their own pitard. they keep saying blow up america's institutions, things we've been doing for decades, american tradition and the way, country has been run, it comes back to bite them, that is unfortunate fact and lesson for them, don't get what you wish for. senate republicans threatened to confirm more judges to the federal bench if democrats stonewall the confirmation in the supreme court. that is what is happening now. ford, do you think this is the real backstory? they don't want justice barrett weighing in on obamacare.

they don't want a justice barrett weighing in on an contested election and they don't want a justice barrett weighing in on the grand jury mueller probe material that the democrats are asking scotus to release. those are the three things that don't want justice barrett seated for. >> that is absolutely right. they don't want to have a situation where you could have a tie broken. justice barrett may very well do that on several key issues. remember with obamacare, here is what is important here, obamacare was a flawed process to begin with. it was meant to be a stepping stone towards socialized medicine. if it is struck down, amy barrett is on the court, back to square one for government run health insurance. to your point, if we have bush v. gore situation i'm a floridian has special resonance, you want a full strength court to avoid ties so we have confidence in all of our institutions. elizabeth: yeah. so not flit 4-4 going into that.

by the way florida was won, that was decided by just 537 votes. we're going to be talking about this in the e block about mail-in ballots and absentee ballots why this matters. here is the new controversy judge barrett may face. this is coming up, she disclosed in her background information she worked at baker bots which worked with george w. bush in that fight bush v. gore in 2000 that the supreme court decided, the 2000 election bush won. she worked with an associate at that law firm that represented george w. bush. do you have think democrats will jump all over this one? >> of course they wilhelm and haw. let you in on a secret, emac, kavanaugh also weighed in on the florida fight in 2000 if it was okay for them to sit on the court, it is just fine for judge barrett. elizabeth: the point about democrats trying to stonewall her from being seated to not be

able to decide on obamacare in november. what does that do in the end? she will get seated anyway, what is the point here? >> she can get seated in but make sure she can't weigh in on a case already happened. that is stare decisis and the law. they believe if she is seated afterwards they might bully john roberts who was a failure on obamacare last time. elizabeth: okay. we get it. thank you, ford. thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, emac. elizabeth: coming up, we're going to dig in more what happened with james comey and his testimony yesterday where he claimed two dozen times he pleaded ignorance not knowing the details of the trump-russia probe he ran. again and again we'll say this. how can you give power to a person that claims to have such a bad memory, the power to approve probes with so many lies. if he has such a bad memory why would you want to buy his we've often wondered what keeps the world running.

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former fbi james comey, we did brief you. you've been briefed multiple times on the problems of the anti-trump steele dossier, problems inside your trump trump-russia probe? comey testified under oath pleading ignorance dozens of times about a lot of things on the trump-russia probe that he ran. do you think anyone will come forward? >> i doubt it. several have come forward in the sense that they spoke to inspector general horowitz and their statements have appeared in his report, though typically anonymously. unless durham, john durham comes up with something i don't think we'll see that. remember comey, he is a very, very intelligent witness. he was very careful yesterday. most of the republican senators unfortunately were not particularly well-prepared to deal with him. elizabeth: let's watch again how comey claimed two dozen calls, can't remember, details about

the probe that he launched, that he ran and he leaked to the media to get the mueller probe going after his trump rush that probe found no trump-russia collusion. watch this. >> i don't remember learning anything. i don't remember anything being told about that i don't remember anything about the facts. i don't remember specific words. i don't remember the report. i don't remember anything. i do not being told that. i do not remember anything. i don't remember learning anything about them, or told about them. not that i recall, no. i don't recall that. i don't remember using that word. i i don't remember ever being informed. i don't remember remember using democrat party. i don't using that word. i don't remember it. i don't remember eking anything. i i don't remember exact words. i don't denned to remember exact words unless i write them down. elizabeth: this is about accountability. the cia was telling the fbi,

steele dossier and information in it was internet rumor. justice department officials saying watch out, this is politicized information in the fbi. came in from the hillary clinton campaign which financed the steele dossier, she will use it to contest the 2016 if she lost. it was based on russian information. fbi knew this was, excuse me, a russian spy working working wite steele dossier. the fbi own counter intelligence team investigated that guy for two years prior. how can he testify he didn't know about the problems with this? >> well, i think it's very, very difficult to begin with. assuming he is intentionally saying something that is false when he says i don't recall, it is one of the hardest things to prove if you're trying to prove that somebody perjured himself. i'm not, i'm not saying that he did. it certainly damning he is if he telling the truth he was so minimally involved. let me give you one example.

the minute he acknowledged the footnote, he acknowledged to senator hawley. senator hawley did a great job yesterday, exception to the rule. comey acknowledged that he saw the footnote in the fisa camcation we think it may be, speculate somebody politically opposed to mr. trump who was behind the dossier. so my question is, if you're the director of the fbi and you see that footnote there what you need to do is stop and say, wait a minute, i want to know everything about this. if we think this is political, i want to get to the bottom of it. by the way, if we find out anything else about it, i want to know in the second application, in the third application, and in the forth application what, what have we done? do we have more information about this? and of course we now know they had a lot more information about it and he is not asking about it. and by the way their doj lawyers that should have been asking about it as well.

so i think that's an area that i would have spent more time on. there is one particular thing he stated that i think is very untrue but i call it a political falsehood, almost impossible to prove. they asked him about the very critical thing he said to president obama in the january 5th meeting when obama said, is it safe for us to share information with the incoming administration because of the flynn kislyak calls. comey mentions those calls, he says they appear to be legit. yesterday he said, i don't remember using that word but if i did, i'm paraphrasing, i meant they were authentic, not that they were all right. there is no way he would have meant that, because there was never any question about whether or not they were ought then i can. it was an fbi recording. nobody ever suggested they weren't authentic. elizabeth: yeah. >> but again he is very, very intelligent. you've got to be prepared for somebody like him. elizabeth: i don't know if that

is intelligence or just slippery. that is thunderous hair splitting you can hear around the world. that is hair-splitting t irrates people, there is lack of accountability what happened here. take out the names. keep saying this again and again. we don't want our intelligence officials and our authorities there being used to go after a political opposition, an opposition candidate. that's wrong. i hear what you're saying. i want to go on to when we talk about lack of accountability, watch james comey here in this exchange with i think senators josh hawley, senator graham. they're clearly frustrated with him. watch this exchange. >> fisa court said that they had reason to doubt the reliability of fbi applications across cases because of the level of misleading information that you personally signed off on. do you regret your role in this unprecedented misleading of a fisa court? >> i don't regret my role. i receipt get -- >> why not?

do you regret you signed off on it? >> well i regret that it happened. >> knowing then what you know now about all the things we've come to find, would you have still signed the warrant application against carter page in october, january and april? >> no. i would want a much more complete understanding of what we -- >> thank you very much. elizabeth: okay. so you see, senator graham cut him off because comey finally admitted no i would not have signed off on the carter page fisa warrants. all the information, sol, you just mentioned what james comey knew, he knew it before he signed off on those carter page wiretaps and carter page said, told us he sent a letter to james comey in september 2016. well before he authorized his wiretaps saying i was working with you guys for decades. i was working with the cia too. you know me. why are you wiretapping me? he ruined his life, what he said. your final word? >> what do you gain if you're

senator graham by cutting comey off. making look like you're trying to silence him. that was one of the more questions that were asked. i would have asked comey this. this is question to ply knowledge nobody has asked. inspector horowitz said that he was limited in what he could ask comey during his investigation because comey declined to have his security clearance renewed. i would have said, mr. comey, you believe in truth and justice. you believe in a higher authority? why wouldn't you want to renew your security clearance so that inspector horowitz could show you classified documents and you could refresh your recollection? that would have been a great question to ask him. elizabeth: yeah. that is a great question. that's a great insight. sol, really terrific to have you on. this is your debut performance. you were terrific. will you come back soon? good to have you back on. >> anytime. anytime yeah. happy to do it. thanks for having me.

elizabeth: oak. sol wisenberg. he will come back. still ahead former national security council chief of staff fred fleitz, why the american people -- you know what? the american people should demand to see all the documents about the allegations that the hillary clinton campaign allegedly signed off on and approved of a plan to link trump to democrat hack of emails in the 2016 to distract from her email and bring down trump. we got the story coming up. >> what i'm here to say there was ample evidence of the other side being involved with russia to create a scandal around trump. they hired a foreign agent on the payroll of democratic party, who hired a russian spy to create a document that was absolutely full of misinf

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♪. elizabeth: welcome back. we're at the bottom of the hour. let's welcome former national security council chief of staff fred fleitz back to the program. great to have you on, fred. here is the question. should the american people demand -- thanks for joining us. should the american people demand to see all of the documents that indicate hillary clinton personally signed off on a plan to make up the russia collusion story in order to damage trump and distract from her email scandal and stop trump? this is what dni ratcliff declassified. should think demand it? >> they should. look what happened here. ratcliff said that russian intelligence determined in july of 2016 clinton approved this plot to smear donald trump for colluding with the russians. this happened at the same time christopher steele is putting together his fraudulent dossier. now this is taken seriously enough it was briefed to president trump and there was a fbi referral. liz, the big question i have,

senate intelligence committee sources reveal this last week, they have known about it all along but dismissed because they didn't think it was credible. this is a pretty significant allegation. i would like to know why did the senate intelligence committee sit on this? why has this information been hidden from the american people? elizabeth: we're hearing too that the cia officials, fbi officials, are sitting on it as well. why didn't senate intelligence put this information in thereby partisan report on russian meddling? i think five reports on that. it didn't make it in there. why? >> five reports. thousands of pages long. not all of them were declassified but quite a lot was declassified. the reason is was senator burr. senator burr was a disasterous chairman of the senate intelligence committee. he let mark warner run that committee, use it to attack president trump. senator burr fell into the trap of thinking that everyone in the intelligence community and democrats and foreign policy

community, that they're all working together in bipartisan manner for national security. now they usually do but at this point in history they're all working together to undermine the president. that is happening in the intelligence community. it is certainly was happening in the intelligence committee. that is why i'm so glad john ratcliffe is now dni, his predecessor dan coats fell under the trap too. ratcliff is trying to get truth out to the american people. elizabeth: okay. so, you know, senator lindsey graham is expressing frustration about this. former acting dni ric grenell is telling us he is frustrated about this. because here's what happened, let's break it down? government documents indicate a russian agent was working with christopher steele, putting disinformation into the anti-trump steele dossier that hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc helped finance and helped pay for and then somehow that gets overinto the fbi and was used in part to get powerful

fisa wiretaps to spy on the trump campaign as being russian assets. so you see how circular it is. learned sy gram is saying there is double standard here. you investigate the trump campaign but why are you sy sitting on what happened in the front end of this, right? >> it is just unbelievable because in early september 2016 the fbi got this referral of this plot that clinton was supposedly behind. they also got the steele dossier which they used to justify a fisa warrant to spy on trump campaign. as you said, they decided to act on one set of information that was at a minimum dodgy and not another set. certainly was a double standard here. elizabeth: let's listen to james comey what you just talked about, testifying about this issue. let's listen to james comey here. watch. >> you don't remember getting an investigatory lead from the intelligence community, 2016, u.s. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative

referral of fbi to fbi director james comey and assistant director of counterintelligence peter strzok regarding u.s. presidential candidate hillary clinton's approval of a plan concerning u.s. presidential candidate donald trump and russia hackers hampering u.s. elections as a means of distracting the public. doesn't -- >> doesn't ring bells with me. >> that is pretty stunning thing. it didn't ring a bell. you get this inquiry from the intelligence committee to look at the clinton campaign basically trying to create a distraction accusing trump of being a russian agent or russian stooge. elizabeth: okay, do you remember james comey's press conference before the election about hillary clinton's emails? do you remember how detailed his memory was about the number of emails that were listed as classified and number of emails that weren't? do you remember how detailed his memory was then? do you remember how detailed

james comey peace memory is about trump's alleged connections to individuals in russia and how he is supposedly indebted to these individuals in russia, which is supposition on his part. he gives detailed information about that but then has no memory of anything about this? your take on it? >> i researched this, liz and comey has repeatedly in congressional testimony had convenient memory lapses when it came to anything that would incriminate him or anything that would make trump look bad but when it came to information that hurts trump, he would remember with perfect clarity. look, this guy, that says to me this guy is a partisan hack. he had no business running the fbi. i'm happy that president trump fired him. elizabeth: fred fleitz, thanks for joining us again, come back soon, okay? >> [inaudible] elizabeth: up next former california republican gubernatorial candidate john cox on this new american moment.

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nothing, i think the expression, liz, we should use, we ain't seen nothing yet here. this will multiply, by election day and maybe after election day which would be incredibly sad. ballot integrity, liz, is foundational thing of our republic. without it the public really has very little confidence in their elected officials being the ones that they actually voted for. i have a lot of experience with this. i grew up in chicago. one of my first elections back in the stone ages, 1977, i went into a polling place. first thing in the morning, 200 votes were already on the machine. so ballot fraud does happen. i'm really afraid, especially with the ballot harvesting that has been done, we'll have serious issues. south korea managed to have an election in april right in the middle of the worst time for this pandemic, liz. and they did it all in person. they took precautions but they had it done all in person

because they knew that the people there needed to know that their votes were accurately counted and they were real. i'm wondering what is going to happen here in november. elizabeth: i hear you. you know, i want to give a shoutout to loyola law school professor justin levin tracking this. in the 2000 race, bush versus gore, bush won by 537 votes in florida. that is a big deal. the rnc is involved in 40 lawsuits. democrats have operation, active cases in 15 states. this could wind up before the supreme court. we're tracking these cases too. they seem to follow through president trump's road map to victory through 23 states he can win electoral college on. we're eseeing fights break out in wisconsin and pennsylvania. we're seeing fights break out in texas, ohio, and on and on and iowa too. john, how do you think this ends up? >> well, there are more swing states, as you point out.

2000 was just florida. all the other states were pretty well decided. i think ohio was a big issue then t was decided by 40,000 votes. but in 2016 you had michigan decided by only what, 10,000 votes? wisconsin was very close. pennsylvania was very close. with numbers about votes now, these states will really be in play. i got to tell you, again, it comes down to there is far more mail ballots. when you have all the mail ballots, liz, there will be disputes about postmarking, whether they're filled out correctly. whether signatures are correct. whether people can correct them after the fact. how long we will engage in this counting, which, increases the opportunities for mischief. there is so much money involved because this federal government and many state governments and california are so big, i think it is a real issue. elizabeth: john cox, it is always great to have you on. come back soon, okay? good to see you. >> thank you, appreciate it.

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome to the show u.s. marshals service director donald washington. sir, it is so good to have you on. this is one of the best feel good stories we've heard in a while. heroic rescue of more than 1300 missing children since 2016. can you please tell us more about this story. who were these children? >> well, liz, thank you very much before we begin, thank you very much for shining a bright light on this particular issue and upon the successes that we've had as an agency with respect to recovering missing children. so who these children are, they are, as i said earlier in atlanta, they are my kids, your kids, they're america's children missing from their homes. we look at what we refer to as critically missing and endangered children.

these are kids that are in particular danger as a result of being victims of violent crime or because of who they are. for example, some of them may be in the middle of gang affiliations or in the midst of drug abusers or in the middle of some bad situations involving people who have violent tendencies and things of that sort. there are a lot of them in the country. at any given time, for example, today i looked at the number. we have 21,000 active missing persons under 18 cases open today. so, there are a lot of them. it is a good story, though. elizabeth: yeah, it is a great story. i think, are we expect in saying there are over 400,000 children missing in the united states? >> yeah. the, i think where that, i know where that number comes from. it comes from an fbi database. i think that the fbi is doing a good job of trying to figure out

the exact number or at least the ballpark number of missing children but, as of, for example, in calendar year 2020, there are currently about 285,000 that have been reported missing this year. and we still have a bit of the year to go. so somewhere between 350 and 400,000 is probably a pretty good number if you want to get sort of a ballpark number for missing children in the united states. i tell you -- go ahead. elizabeth: finish your thought. go ahead. yeah i was going to say you mentioned as a lead-in, that we have recovered an agency about 1300 over the last five, fiscal years. one just ended of course. fy 2020, excuse me, 2020, we recovered 375 kids. i think one of the reasons that you were interested in talking was because of the big operation

we had in northern georgia around the city of atlanta called operation not forgotten, which was a fantastic effort by a lot of people to go and recover about 26 missing children and then to confirm that 13 others were in fact safe. and there are others going on around the country as we speak. elizabeth: this is what's so disturbing n ohio, just around 20% of the children rescued were tied to human trafficking. they were found in cities across the buckeye state including cleveland, akron, columbus. also the arrests of people for alleged crimes related to sex trafficking, pa trend tall kidnapping, registered sex offenders, drug owe position. that is what you're seeing in these stories. it is such heart ache, so heart breaking with the stories. who are these, where do these children come from? >> they come from families like

yours and mine. these are by and large runaways who may or may not have some issue that they're trying to, they're trying to fight. their age group is typically anywhere from six to 17. so obviously the younger children are more taken from their families than running away from their families. for example, in operation not forgotten the youngest child was three years old. you mentioned northern ohio, we have great people throughout the united states marshals service doing all kinds of good work. in northern ohio, under the leadership of marshal elliot and his chief deputy up there, marshall deserto, they have just done a fantastic job of pulling things together. elizabeth: yeah they have. you have done a great job too. you really have. i'm so sorry we're running out of time. i can't believe a 3-year-old was taken. it is just heart-breaking.

u.s. marshals director donald washington. thanks for joining us. we really appreciate it. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: come back soon. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. thanks for watching. [ rock music plays ] >> a world-record car collection... >> he just kept going. he never stopped. >> i believe his goal was to have one of every car ever made. >> a maverick driven to leave a mark... >> he went to a wrecking-yard auction, bought the whole wrecking yard. >> his family promises to carry out his grand plan. >> i think there was a feeling of dread, relief, excitement, and enthusiasm. >> i love it. feel the hair blowing, the top down. >> but can they fulfill the patriarch's dying wish? >> none of us wanted to be the ones who said we split all the stuff up. you don't want that car oil on your hands. [ woman vocalizing, theme music plays ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]