tonight. you deserve it. we'll be here tomorrow. god bless america. good night from sussex. ♪ gerry: stocks start december on a high note on fresh hopes for a covid-19 vaccine and an economic recovery. as the cdc draws up a list of who will get that vaccine first. joining us tonight, jason chaffetz, jason rantz, congressman greg stuebe and. plus leon panetta, jeff duncan, texas congressman elect tony gonzalez. resistance to covid lockdowns is rising as more politicians demonstrate one law for them and one for the rest of us. los angeles county supervisor dining at a local restaurant after voting to ban outdoor

eating. to seattle where the homicide rate is soaring to a 10-year high just as the city plans to cut a big chunk of its police department budget. mounting fallout over the assassination after iranian nuclear scientist. iran says israel was behind it and pulled it off with some high-tech and remote weapons. the balance of the power in the senate in the balance itself, hanging on two key senate races in georgia. also tonight we'll tell you why president trump made significant progress in attracting hispanic voters to the republican party despite liberals saying he is anti-iimmigrant. i'm gerry baker in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ gerry: we begin with the latest on that cdc meeting over who will get the covid-19 vaccine first and when. blake burman is at the white house for us. blake what is the latest?

reporter: gerry, this is an advisory group that helps out the cdc, acip, advisory committee for immunization practices. after a lengthy discussion a short while ago they voted to recommend that front line health care workers be the first ones to eventually get a covid-19 vaccine when that comes down the line potentially here in the upcoming weeks. here is the recommendation, quote, when a covid-19 vaccine is authorized by fda and recommended by acip vaccination in the initial phase of the covid-19 vaccination should be offered one, to health care personnel and two, residents of long-term care facilities. when you talk about health care workers, for example that list includes those who work at those long-term health care facilities and long with those in hospitals, outpatient facilities,ems workers and public health officials. gerry, there are 21 million adults who are health care professionals. that is 8% of the adult

population. as for those in nursing homes, it is 1.3 million individuals out of 1.7 million beds available. add it all up, talking about 22, 23 million individuals that this advisory committee just recommended be first ones to get those vaccines. one thing to keep in mind though, this is an advisory group for the cdc. this is their recommendation, what they think should happen. at the end of the day when there is a vaccine and gets distributed out to the states, it will be the governors who will eventually have the final say within their states as to where a vaccine may or may not initially go. gerry? gerry: 21, 22 million people in that first order of priority. i think companies making these vaccines have said they might have 20, 30 million doses available quickly. any sense how quickly once they're approved they can get the vaccines to those people who have been identified as priority? reporter: everything we heard,

gerry, from "operation warp speed" when there approval from the fda it should be out the door within 24, maybe 36 hours. we know the fda will take up pfizer on december 10th, nine days from now. moderna a week after that. it is certainly possible that you're talking about the first doses of vaccination at some point in the middle of this month. gerry? gerry: blake burman thank you very much indeed. the race for the vaccine is unfolding as lawmakers inch closer to a covid relief bill. nancy pelosi and steve mnuchin spoke today. there is bipartisan group of senators and leadership from the house problem-solvers caucus unveiled their own proposal with one another calling it quote, stupidity on steroids to not do a bill before christmas. watch this. >> this is 908 billion-dollar frame work which will take us december 1 through march 31st. not going to make everybody

happy but there has been an enormous amount of work done. there will be a lot of enormously good give-and-take. i came with the notion i'm hearing from beginnians, somebody used it. i borrowed their term it would be stupidity on steroids if congress left for christmas without doing an interim package as a bridge. gerry: perhaps some, cynics might say wouldn't be the first time congress demonstrated stupidity on steroids. joining me congressman former house oversight committee chairman, congressman jason chaffetz. congressman chaffetz, thanks for joining me. >> thanks, gerry. gerry: what is the odds, do you think of some kind of a stimulus, some kind of cares marc four package we'll get before the end of this year, before the end of this congress? >> i think the odds are pretty good, now the election, voting is done i think democrats will loosen up some of their demands. i don't think any way nancy pelosi for instance was

going to do a package prior to the election. i just hope it is as clean a bill as possible. there were a lot of superfluous things in the other bill, stuff absolutely nothing to do with coronavirus. if they keep the bill clean, keep it reasonable, there is no reason why both ends of the political spectrum can't come together to get this done. gerry: do you think a bill is likely to include some provision for vaccination? obviously an expensive business vaccination. speaker pelosi said the bill should contain that. do you think that will be in it? >> yeah. that is obviously germane to the topic at hand. so i think making sure that that, the vaccination is widely available, prioritized for first-responders, nurses, doctors, people like at that, that there isn't a cost to the american people, ultimately they pay it in forms of taxes. there is still a bill for the american people but the immediate need to come up with a credit card or cash to do it i think can be part of that relief

package but there are small businesses, big businesses, like airlines and others do need relief and they need it now. lou: gerry: democrats still pushing, want a big bailout for many states, particularly blue states that got themselves into deep fiscal problems. republicans i'm guessing are not warming to that idea? >> i think that's where fiscal conservatives are very concerned, there is more than $100 billion, what i read in this 900 plus billion dollar package that would go to states. putting some guardrails where they can use it, how they can use it so it doesn't grow government. we went through with barack obama and joe biden. 787 billion-dollar package would go to do infrastructure that sort of thing, but less than 5% actually did that so the concern is that will be repeated unless you actually put some guardrails. get this to the people who need it. people who work in a restaurant. people who, people who really actually need that relief and

they can get it soon. gerry: senate republicans talked about a slimmer proposal, something much more order what you've been talking about, what do you think the odds are, what would be included in that, what are the odds something like that could get passed? >> you would have thought they could got this done four or five months ago. i would like to say since the election is over that is good. slimmer package making sure it is focused on those who need it increases odds. when you start throwing in provisions about immigration and these types of things that have absolutely nothing to do, gerry, with what is needed for covid relief, then you got a people throw up their hands, i will not be party to. >> congressman, while i have got you, other big news featured attorney general william barr announcing that prosecutor that he appointed to investigate aspects to do with the russia investigation making him a special counsel which i think,

as you can explain to our viewers what that means but i think it sort of protects him. means the investigation is ongoing through the biden administration. give us your response to that. >> evidently this designation happened back in october. we're turning a corner here into december but basically means that the investigation can continue even under a new attorney general, if firing of this person is near impossible. you would have to come up with some really good reasons to do it. you can't just say he is an at-will employee terminate this. a special prosecutor has a budget. has resources. has the ability to go out to get documents he needs. also the wherewithal to do without having an attorney general or somebody fire him along the way. it is a real important step. i'm dispointed the investigation didn't wrap up before the election but i'm still curious to want to know what mr. durham has found. gerry: jason chaffetz, we'll be following that for some time to

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gerry: in seattle democratic mayor general any ducker kin plans to sign a new -- general durkin sign as budget at the same time the homicides hit high in more than a decade. jason rantz, radio show host joins me. >> thanks for having me. gerry: the mayor of your city referred to violence, vandalism, rioting, as summer of love. homicides surging and police budget cuts can we imagine a winter of love. >> think about the tragic irony of this. as seattle city council was debating how much more they defund the seattle police there was two stabbings.

up with was a person walking in downtown seattle, stabbed in the neck. the good news he is okay. the bass news, the second stabbing was a caseworker working in a essentially a place facility for formerly homeless people who are getting help to get their lives back in order. she was stabbed to death. this was happening while we were talking about cutting more funds from the police. we have 55 homicides this year. that is up for context, from 28 last year. this is the highest we've had in at least 12 years. things are not going well in seattle but i can't say that i'm surprised by these statistics. gerry: what's the political reaction, jason? we just had an election where a lot of democrats put their hand up after the election said this whole defund the police thing was disaster for nair party especially congressional house races yet here you are, rising crime, terrible stabbings, cutting the police budget, what will the political reaction be? >> the political reaction in the

pacific northwest generally speak something much different than what is going on nationally. here you embrace the fringe, progressives socialist beliefs and end up getting reelected. if you have a "d" next to your name chances are including if you're literally a sack of potatoes you will have a high chance, if not a for sure, a certainty that you're going to actually get elected or reelected regardless of your results as somebody in office. simply taking on parroting talking points coming from the activist community basically means you will be in power a very long time. we are just again, put it in perspective, we're going into year 16 of a 10-year plan to end homelessness. we don't necessarily judge results here in seattle. we judge talking points, the ability to kowtow and placate some of the very loud and very angry activists and right now

those activists happen to be anti-police and they're the ones who have the ears of the council and the mayor's office. gerry: you're sill getting widespread violence and vandalism. these people, supposedly, joe biden seems to have been elected president. we all thought this was kind of a bullying tactic by some of these left-wing radicals in the runup to the election, vote for us or we're going to burn your city. vote for joe biden, city is still burning, so what is going on? what do they want? i see the signs here, more dead cops. is it really pure anarchy? do they want to destroy all the institutions of society like that? >> it is kind of interesting. you have two different groups within the larger blm movement here in seattle. number one we've cut the police department budget by 18%. there are some want that cut by 50%. now the council said that was their end goal but they did acknowledge maybe they threw that number out there a little bit too quickly but still intend

to get to 50%. so the group was sort of, they're the victims of being overpromise and underdeliverred. but you have another very how group, much smaller than the 50% crowd, literally want to see the abolition of police. they want to get rid of prisons. they want to get rid of prison sentences. they're not hiding some of these positions and they do have allies. whether it is on the seattle city council or the king county council or the state legislators in olympia, they do have some people who are starting to parrot some of these more fringe positions or at least if not fully adopting them, they are at least sympathetic towards them. it is just empowering these people. last night we had another essentially a riot of marauding protesters out there doing what they do. vandalizing big business, terrorizing neighborhoods. police not allowed to do their

job. we have the lowest police deployable staff we've had in the city of seattle since 1990. let that sink in. we're seeing a mass exodus of officers who are continuing to leave. we've seen almost 150 officers this year who have left. we believe, i believe, based on my sources that i'm talking to, that number will get closer to 200 in the next month. we have 100 officers who already have applications out to different agencies around the region this is not going to get better. gerry: jason, thank you very much. from the peoples republic of seattle, thank you very much indeed for joining us. >> thank you so much. gerry: greg stuebe from house judiciary own the mounting anger over so many politicians like california governor gavin newsom who want you to follow their tough covid-19 lockdown measures while they give themselves a path to break them. >> well, i didn't have a choice. you know, for me if it was i close again i won't be able to close, to be able to reopen at all so it was a simple choice for me.

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♪. gerry: meanwhile in california the democratic governor is warning that a surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations may trigger drastic new stay at home orders. gavin newsom implied he could impose the additional restrictions within the next couple weeks targeting areas where hospitals are most at risk of being overwhelmed by patients but many residents and business owners are now pushing back. so let's bring in congressman greg stuebe, of florida, congressman. thanks very much for joining me. >> thanks for having me. gerry: we're seeing more restrictions being imposed by some of these governors particularly in blue states but we're starting to see more and more people really just tired of this, not being able to stand what is going on with the damage being done to businesses. how do you think this is going to play out? >> finally americans have said enough is enough. you listened to you in the beginning. he said we would shut down three weeks and bend the curve and flatten the curve, all these different things that the scientists allegedly were

saying. then we would go back to a normal life yet you see democrats across the country, mayor lightfoot in chicago, is with a whole bunch of people around here maskless at a rally. mayor of d.c. at a biden rally. all the democrats do whatever they want to do in violation of their own covid restrictions and rules while restaurants and business owners in democratically led cities and democratically led states being decimated about the economic impact of shutting down their businesses. thank god i live in the state of florida where our governor hasn't done that you don't see a spike in cases here. you have kid in school. 99.9% of people under the age of 50 who contract covid-19 don't die from coved cove. why would we should down the economy when there is absolutely no scientific basis for lockdowns across the country. gerry: congressman, you mentioned exactly the double standards on display by some of democratic leaders and states,

mentioned lori lightfoot and gavin newsom in california, telling people not to get out and eating maskless as one of the most expensive restaurants in the world with a large bunch friend. seen another story in l.a., san jose mayor apologizing for going to a thanksgiving party. what about democratic politicians, do as i do, and not do as i say. >> because it is all about power -- gerry: do as i say not as i do. >> it is about power. look at speaker pelosi who laid out a mask mandate in the capitol yet she doesn't follow their own restrictions in her city of san francisco when she is getting her hair done by wearing a mask. there is no actual protocol in the united states capital, in the house for members coming in and out. oh, just everybody is required to wear a mask. there are more requirements at the home that i went to with my grandfather today with temperature checks, logs all different things than the capitol of our country. just required to wear a mask,

and we'll shun you require you to leave the house floor, the home of democracy if you're not doing what speaker pelosi tells you what to do. it is all about power. the u.s. supreme court finally starting to shut down some of orders like governor cuomo's order in new york as it relates to religious institutions. finally courts are getting involved here, say look, we have a right to our religious beliefs, right to exercise our religious beliefs, good toe supreme court shutting down some of cuomo's orders. gerry: you're in florida. people are talking about florida last six months, screaming hysterically, republican state, republican governor and you know deaths are going to rise, hospitalizations are going to rise, if you keep the economy open but tells your experience? actually you said earlier you have got cases rising, it is true, but increase in hospitalizations but the economy is doing okay, as far as i can tell you're not suffering huge numbers of serious casualties

and serious cases from the virus? >> no. the hospitals are doing fine. they're not overrun. if you look at percentage of positivity rates, it is not skyrocketing. not over 10% in florida. kids have been in school here in florida since may. my own son, i had name in-person schooling. they did temperature checks as kids came in. there wasn't any incidents, wasn't any issues. kids need to be in school. businesses need to be open. if you're in high risk class, over the age of 70, you have other morbidities need to be careful, stay at home, type of things we need to do to protect yourself. shouldn't shut down the entire economy nationwide because of a disease only kills .01% of those under the age of 50. it doesn't make sense. gerry: congressman stuebe, thank you very much. i was looking data todays, you still have lower numbers in florida in terms of fatality rate than we've had in new york. you know florida has remained open. new york has been still largely shut down the last six months.

congressman stuebe, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. gerry: still ahead former see cia case officer on fallout over assassination after well-known iranian nuclear scientist. is iranians say it was the israelis. the israelis surprising lit enough not saying anything

♪. gerry: there is potential for serious diplomatic reverberations of killing of a top iranian nuclear scientist. iran says israel is to blame an killing only makes iranians more united and more determined. joining me to discuss is a former cia case officer. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure. gerry: so democrats say this was carefully timed attempt to sabotage the new biden administration attempts redoing diplomacy in the middle east. real interesting piece in the

"wall street journal" saying that wasn't true. tell us what you think is behind this? >> i think it is true, i mean the israelis have been gunning for this scientist, i think you can describe him as iran's primary bomb-maker, for some time. it is hard to know you know, whether they got particular piece of intercept or human intelligence that decided for them to go for it. i think the real view is, you know, israel has an existential threat from a nuclear iran and iran that has military bases with substantial ballistic missile capacity in syria is serious threat to them. for the united states it is just not true. iran is not an existential threat so this discrepancy is decisive and i think as the united states continue to retrench from the military, from the middle east, you will see israelis step up more. there is substantial uptick in mossad's operations in iran.

i don't think that's diminishing. it will complicate without a doubt the biden administration's attempt to you know, reach out and to restart nuclear negotiations which the israelis i think have zero faith in. gerry: in your journal article you also mentioned in addition taking out a very dangerous and very skilled scientist this was, this is israeli action was sending messages, sending a number of messages maybe to the iranian people, to the wider middle east. tell us a little bit about that? >> well i mean i think it is the primary message that the israelis are sending to the middle east is that they can challenge the iranians and iranians really can't do that much in response. the israelis have been pummeling the revolutionary guards in syria now for almost two years. the iranian revolutionary guard corps which also controls the nuclear program has been really

unable to respond to this pummeling of which they have lost substantial life and manpower and material. so the israelis i think are signaling really clearly they're not scared and that they have the iranians, they have advantage over the iranians. i think it certainly fortifies spines of gulf arabs who historically have never been courageous when it comes to iranian threats. gerry: briefly, if biden comes in and his team are talking about possibly redoing, resurrecting, getting the u.s. back in the iranian nuclear deal how do you think, how do you think that will play out? >> well i think obviously the iranians are waiting to see how many billions of dollars the biden administration is prepared to throw before talks even begin. i think it is going to be complicated. one, i think the israelis probably will continue to cause problems because they don't believe that these nuclear

discussions can lead to anything terribly productive. and i think the iranians also are going to be hesitant. they won't be hesitant to take money, but i think they will be hesitant to make any concessions that are real and substantial and go beyond the jcpoa. so i would expect the tension between the israel and iran to go up. i would expect to see more israeli operations. i think the washington will have a very difficult time coercing israelis to cease and desist. gerry: thank you very much and thank you for typically excellent "wall street journal" editorial. thanks very much indeed. >> thank you. gerry: more on the potential diplomatic repercussions i want to bring in former secretary of defense, former director of cia, leon panetta. thank you for joining me. >> good to be with you. gerry: ben rhodes who served in the obama administration described killing of iranian scientist by the israelis, as

outrage just, undermining the new administration diplomacy. perhaps we talked about, perhaps sabotaging that diplomacy. is that your view? >> well i, having worked with mossad when i was cia director, they have for a long time targeted various individuals in iran. so it doesn't come as much of a surprise that they would strike at the top nuclear scientists. as to it us manicallycations, obviously it fits in with all of the other tensions in that area surrounding iran, surrounding the united states, surrounding israel as well as the region. so there is no question that it complicates the effort i'm sure by the biden administration to try to re-establish the nuclear agreement by iran. gerry: do you think as we get,

again as the biden administration prepares to take office, they have talked about the possibility of getting back into that nuclear deal. president trump obviously taken a very different approach. what do you think the odds are they will be able to resurrect that, to restore u.s. involvement in the deal? >> well it will take a lot of effort to try to get there. i think it is important that they work with our allies that were involved in the nuke cheer agreement. it can't just be the united states operating on its own. so they will have to include great britain, france, germany, russia, china, to put some pressure on whether or not iran is willing to back off of what they have been doing in terms of nuclear enrichment. it is not going to be easy to get them to be willing to operate within those limits. they're going to ask for economic assistance because of feeling that their economy has

been damaged by the united states pulling out of the nuclear agreement. and now with the killing of this nuclear scientist and the effort by iran to seek some kind of reciprocity, that too could complicate it. so this is not going to be easy to do. gerry: mr. secretary, president trump has taken very different approach in the middle east from previous predecessors. downplayed centrality of israel palestine issue, emphasized instead, challenging iran, pulling out of the nuclear deal, building a alliance of nations, israel and arab states national adversaries of iran and turned upside down the chessboard in the middle east. do you, even though you've been critical of president trump in many respects do you think that was a significant achievement by this administration, and do you expect the biden administration to sort of fundamentally chuang that, to try to go back the way the u.s. administrations

approached them at least before? >> no, i mean i think on the contrary, i think that the biden administration has made clear that it will try to reassert united states world leadership. i think something that trump administration kind of gradually withdrew from a leadership role and undermined a lot of our alliances particularly with regards to nato. with regards to the middle east, i think that the united states is going to continue to play a role in working with our arab friends in the middle east in working with israel, to confront two adversaries. one is iran and the secretary rich. so i don't think there will be any efforts to try to undermine the work that has been done to build those alliances and to work with them in order to make sure that we can advance peace

in the region. gerry: leon panetta, thank you very much indeed for joining us. that will certainly be something we'll follow closely as months, next few weeks and months unfold. thanks very much for joining us. >> you bet. gerry: coming up, georgia lieutenant governor jeff duncan how the state's two senate runoffs could change the balance of power in the senate. >> look, everything's at stake in this election. the future of our country is on the ballot on january 5th right here in georgia. we know what the stakes are. we know that if chuck schumer gets his way, now we change georgia, we change america, they would fundamentally and radically change america for the worst. we're firewall for stopping socialism in america right here in georgia and we're going to do that

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their lives in the january runoffs. the stakes couldn't be higher, the balance of power in the senate is on the line. so it is no wonder that the trump claims of campaign electoral fraud in georgia are raising concerns among fellow republicans. welcome georgia lieutenant governor jeff duncan. >> good afternoon, gerry,. gerry: thanks for joining us. just to said, some of the president's lawyers, some of the president's team continue to insist there was widespread voting fraud in florida. you and governor, secretary of state pushed back, denied that are there any further options here, any further avenues for the president to get that very close election result overturned? >> well we continue the process of finalizing, counting every single legal vote here in georgia. wednesday at midnight a recount will be finished. it was requested by the president and his campaign that will be finished. all signs point to that being in line with the initial counts and statistically not changing the

results of the election. we continue to watch the process play out here in georgia. you know what? we're dealing with mountains of misinformation flowing in literally by the second. we're staying focused by our jobs on the hand to count every single legal vote. gerry: are you worried at all, republicans worried at all about talk of widespread fraud and unrelinability of the vote in november, that could discourage republicans voting in the january runoff? >> i'm very worried, gerry. it creates a couple different issues. it creates a short term issue for senate runoffs. we need senator purdue and senator loeffler to be in the senate not just in georgia but entire country. they need be to against any bad ideas by the biden administration, raising taxes on small businesses, looking for opportunities to defund the police and mountains of regulations for environmental

purposes. we need them. long term i think it is troublesome too, we continue to chase after endless amounts of frivolous information that is deunbunked in 10 seconds or less, long term for republican party it creates some headwinds for us. we need to get those folks that are with us on our policies but we cannot lose the messaging that we we're paying attention to real stuff. gerry: in these off cycle or runoff elections turnout is absolutely key, right? you don't expect to get the kind of turnout you would get normally especially in a presidential election year, at the same time as the presidential election. how do republicans maximize their vote? how do republicans get people out to vote on january 5th? >> there is not any way to model the what turnout will look like. we're in the midst of a pandemic, we're in the midst of a runoff and election and misinformation. there is lots of moving parts here. the best thing for us here in georgia, this is a red state. we have a governor, lieutenant

governor, all eight statewide constitutional officers are republicans. we have republican majorities in the statehouse and state senate. this is a red state recognizes importance of somebody having importance looking through lens of small business owner, looks through the lens of a family, looks through the lens what it takes to represent georgia's values. i think we have two senators in place that currently do that we have to keep reminding folks, remind them in the bushes, rural george, remind them we have the right direction in georgia. we can point to that. unemployment rate is extremely low compared to other states, because our governor, governor kemp is continuing to put a balance in place of lives and livelihoods. gerry: thank you. all eyes on georgia for the next few weeks. thank you very much lieutenant governor jeff duncan, thanks. >> absolutely. gerry: just ahead, congressman tony gonzalez breaks down what president trump did well in texas border towns despite all

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border with mexico? welcome texas congressman-elect tony gonzalez. he is a mexican-american who previously served in the navy. welcome. >> thank you for having me. gerry: it is striking we've listened for the last four years to the media telling us how bigoted and anti-immigrant, and anti-mexican and anti-hispanic president trump is, yet we saw the election last month how well president trump did in terms of getting hispanic votes. did very well in florida but particularly strikingly well in texas. you look at those maps of the texas, counties along the border around he did increased his vote enormously. can you tell us why that is? why president trump actually did so well? >> yeah the president did well with hispanics because while some hispanics may be democrats they're not socialists. they believe in rural of law. specifically in my distribute which is 800 miles of texas and mexican border they believe in the american dream.

they believe at the heart of the american dream is security. you know as i made my way around the district, border patrol agents and experts told me time and time again that a wall makes sense? certain spots but we got to do more than that we got to get resources to the men and women doing the work. dhs, i.c.e., border patrol. we need to add technology, drones and sensors to the equation as well. gerry: president obama was out there last week essentially saying once again hispanics were voting against their own interests because they, things like, things, things like abortion matter more to them than the fact they're hispanic t was another example i thought, what you think, congressman, another example of how democrats sort of take for granted the hispanic vote. they expect them to vote democratic no matter what democrats actually do. >> in south and west texas, i'm mexican-american. specifically mexican-americans faith and family is everything.

you know that was our message as we made our way around the district. it is at the heart of the american dream and i would argue, you know they just want to live the american dream and the american dream doesn't always start in america. i would love nothing more than this conversation to shift for against the wall, are you for legal immigration because i believe most americans are ready for immigration reform. gerry: what do you think happens if the widen administration assuming it takes office next month rolls back a lot of the president's measures to restrict illegal immigration into the country? >> you know, i was just at the border last week and it's dangerous. it is dangerous that if we take a step back. we need to take a step forward. there is no doubt this country needs to come together, right? we need to come together to solve this problem specifically in congress. this isn't an executive solution, right? executive order isn't going to solve this. this is congress' job.

i look forward to getting up here in congress, working on this problem. gerry: do you think maybe again the president's relative success among hispanics in this election perhaps suggests the beginning of a kind of a new republican coalition here? that voters again put aside perhaps the way in which democrats thought about for so long, racial identity, sexual identity, whatever, think about the interests and actually, republican party has an ability by appealing to what matters to those voters to actually get more of those voters, to build a winning coalition? >> you know, what is exciting about this new class, is the messenger matters. we have a very diverse class. look, i'm mexican-american. i'm able to go to communities and immediately relate by telling my story. telling the american dream is open to all of us, right? at the heart of that is free enterprise and limited government. you know most texans, they just want to luff their lives. you know government is never going to solve their problems.

free enterprise, limited government, being respectful to one another, once again having foundation in faith and family is what, i believe aligns most hispanics specifically mexican-americans with the republican party. gerry: congressman elect, tony gonzalez, congratulations. look forward to see more of you in washington. >> thanks for having me. gerry: i'm gerry baker in for elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit." thank you for watching and have a good evening. ♪ "

see you back here tomorrow. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. president trump, husband legal team -- his legal team, members of the republican party making advances today in the battle for the white house. there have been significant developments in six key battleground states, all of which, all of which bolster president trump's charge that there has been clear electoral fraud, fraud that nullified the will of the people in the november election. the president's progress puts him at odds with the insudden yous rinos -- insidious