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potentially criminal activity across the globe. racing concerns about extortion and risks he ripped the from the floor of the senate on the blackout of the hunter biden story before the election a story many of the media only now reporting on. senator grassley charging the media covered it up in order to help get joe biden elected. all of this as we continue our deep dive that we started last year into what really went on, how biden family members allegedly buried the money flows out of foreign countries into accounts contacted to them by using shell companies as the bidens were selling influence overseas. now to the controversy swirling around democrat eric swalwell and his ties to a suspected chinese spy. republicans say swalwell should step down from house intelligence because he is a national security threat. nancy pelosi today defended eric

swalwell but we've got this. a shocking and gaping government security loophole that eric swalwell unwittingly barreled right through. questions now emerging who else marched through this hoop hole and how many other politicians were targeted by chinese spies? applause we've got more on the news that six states today joined the texas lawsuit against, lawsuit against those four battleground states. texas saying they were unconstitutional in how they conducted their 2020 vote. we've got breaking news. 106 house republicans today filed friend of the court briefs saying they do support the texas lawsuit. also this, democrats now blasting republican senator ron johnson for scheduling a panel hear about election irregularities just two days after the electoral college meets. we'll take you to the border tonight as well. hundreds of criminal illegal aliens released inside the sanctuary state of california.

many have since been rearrested and you wont believe why. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay, welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's get at it with former federal prosecutor jim trusty. jim, good to see you again. should a special counsel a special prosecutor be appointed to look into the hunter biden case? >> they could and they better move quickly. the delaware attorney's office is investigating him. open question on what exactly the scope of that investigation is. if they remain independent there is no need for special counsel you know i would be more comfortable having something take a fresh look at it from a to z, laptop, taxes, fara violations all the things exactly he was involved in and how much of the family was

involved beyond hunter. elizabeth: not just an investigation into hunter's taxes. federal prosecutors in delaware reportedly working on a criminal investigation with the fbi and a unit at the irs, a grand jury has reportedly been impaneled. investigators are talking subpoenas and interviews being sought over the business dealings of china, ukraine and other countries. so you know the question is senate finance committee chair grassley on the floor today blasting the media for the blackout of the hunter biden story. what do you think happened there? >> i think the black quote was pretty obvious, right? the mainstream media wouldn't touch this with a 10-foot pole. liz, i'm old enough, billy carter commanding the headlines because he had beer and he was a redneck, he was embarrassing his brother. that was the stuff of near scandal status in the '70s. we're talking about a situation with shell companies, with oligarch wives giving checks of millions of dollars with hunter, the whole burisma thing.

there is at least smoke. any reasonable person would agree there is at least smoke, there may be fire. we'll wait to see on that. a pretty significant dereliction of duty for people to black that out, only starting to creep into the media attention now. elizabeth: senator grassley saying they did it, they plaqued out, the media did the black quote in order to get joe biden elected. let's watch senator grassley today. >> for over a year senator johnson and i investigated the biden financial family dealings. we found that they engaged in potential criminal financial deals across the globe including china which created counterintelligence concerns but the liberal media and members of the other political party chose to dismiss our work. even falsely claimed that our work was russian disinformation. i think they did this in order

to protect leaders of the other party. those same liberal outlets that disparaged our investigation now report that hunter biden's financial deals in china raise counterintelligence concerns. so you can understand why i think it's very outrageous that the fourth estate would choose to ignore facts when they are uncovered by republicans. elizabeth: okay, let's show the viewer the shell companies that we have found digging into government documents that were used by the biden family. let's back up. so the, hunter biden and his associates were seeking a deal, jim you and i talked about this, with china's cefc energy conglomerate. they wanted 10 million. the deal falls apart. that company starts setting up side deals with hunter biden and

sending money to hunter biden and his associates via shell companies. talking about millions of dollars, money funding a global shopping spree for james biden and his wife sarah. millions of dollars to off-balance sheet shell companies heading toward the bidens. 20 wires hunter biden involved with sending 1.4 million to james biden's consulting firm. cefc, the china company, wired five million to a shell company controlled by hunter biden. on and on. while they are wiring this money to hunter biden and his associates, china is getting hunter's help to do energy deals in russia. what is your reaction to this part of the story? -- >> first part, hunter biden was thoroughly unqualified to do anything in this sector. clearly the last name was important to the foreign investors. look, the question is not just where the money is going, the question what did they expect to get in return? that is something we don't know and frankly i have to to back up

to talk with the congressional investigations, they're never as deep, never conclusive, and dismissed compared to criminal investigations. i put a lot more stock with the delaware attorney's office working with criminal investigation division of the irs and hopefully the fbi and drill down what we have here rather than the 30,000-foot level relately knowing on a detailed level where this money was going, why it wasn't reported and what do they expect in return. that you implicate for run corrupt practices act or foreign registration act. elizabeth: let's show the other, let's show the details what the information -- we have another full screen we want to show the viewer what is swirling around hunter biden. so we've got sdny, southern district of new york, securities unit looking into hunter biden finance as as well. we have the potential criminal probe. it is also potentially a tax

probe. we the rowed last reported last night prosecutors probing how the chairman of energy company in china paid hunter biden with a 2-carat diamond working with lng in louisiana. there are a lot of moving parts. where do you think it goes next? >> tax probe can be a vast probe. it could be euphemistic, that they're working on his taxes and that could be woefully incomplete. i'm looking whether the leak of information came from biden's camp in a way of dampening the impact of something that comes later. in other words, two or three weeks from now there is the possibility of a biden christmas gift where hunter biden gets a very quick plea, soft terms to a tax charge that enables this thing to be put in the rear-view mirror and suppressing rest of the investigation.

i'm nervous where this could go with the information suddenly coming out in mid-december, whether we see an indictment or soft plea in next couple weeks that essentially ends all the inquiries from a federal prosecutor's perspective. >> but this is a national security issue. that is what senators grassley and johnson keep hammering home. the guy who ran the cefc energy conglomerate. he had has gone missing. he complained about a deal to take a 14% take stake, 14% stake in the russia energy company rosneft. another biden associate patrick ho, charged with allegedly trying to bribe government officials in chad and uganda. so and then his own, his other business partner devin archer was convicted on unrelated fraud charges. it feels, senators grassley and ron johnson have been working on this for a year and they're saying this is a national security risk. it can't just be a soft plea for

hunter biden they say. they would say. >> well, i don't think anybody is in favor of a soft plea if the evidence support as lot more but i think there is always going to be limitations on the political front when it comes to congressman standing up and shaking their fist at the outrageousness of it from information they severe sus what federal prosecutors see on their own. i don't have a problem with acknowledging there is a lot of people here certainly create a bad picture. the exact type of characters would participate in a pay-for-play kind of scheme. they are the exact kind of countries with dough want want that relationship with, china, russia, uzbekistan i think it was, kazakhstan. there are in a bad way when it comes to connecting to the highest reaches of the u.s. government. certainly might look like the intention and might be facilitated by hunter and spread

beyond hunter. we have a lot of smoke. we have to see where the fire is. elizabeth: got it. swim trusty. great to have you on. >> sure, thanks. elizabeth: next up former national security council chief of staff fred fleitz on a shocking, gaping government security loophole that fred is talking about that is now surfacing in the controversy swirling now around democrat eric swalwell and his allege engagement and relationship with a suspected chinese spy. questions growing. who else marched through this gaping loophole? how many other politicians were potentially targeted by chinese spies. that story next. >> i think the answers so far that we're seeing out of swalwell who ran around, let's not forget for four years accusing everyone of being russian agents. let's note for get he is a p-take truther. he was promoting the dossier, steele dossier that involved supposedly donald trump and prostitutes and all this stuff

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alleged chinese spy christine fang's extensive ties with california democrat eric swalwell. fred, you point out the gaping, huge government security loophole here. what is it? >> you know it is unbelievable, i worked for the cia and house intelligence committee staff. in each case i had to undergo an fbi background investigation every five years. they look my finances. talk to my neighbors. find out who my relatives were. at cia i had to undergo polygraph and drug test. members of the house intelligence committee don't undergo any of this. they get access to the nation's most sensitive secrets just being elected. if eric swalwell had undergone routine fbi investigation this fang fang woman have been found immediately. i think something has to be done immediately so we make sure members of congress are not compromised by foreign intelligence services. elizabeth: should there be a probe of this, should there be a special counsel looking into

this? you're saying swalwell was not cleared by the fbi with a background security check like other members of congress but he can engage with a chinese spy and see top secret information as a member of house intelligence? kevin mccarthy, the minority lead in the house say he should be kicked off, removed from house intelligence. what do you say? >> i think he should be kicked off. i think congress has to have some new rules. let me tell you another issue here. nancy pelosi said in 2015 both republican and democrats were briefed on this. i think they were briefed on something, liz, but i doubt very much they were briefed on the fact that fang fang helped fun this congressman's career and that he may have had a personal relationship, romantic relationship with her. i wonder what was really briefed to congress in 2015? either it was information withheld by james comey or did they not know the whole story in 2015? elizabeth: the question is what other politicians were targeted?

let's watch former acting director of national intelligence ric grenell. he said this is a concern. watch? >> i think that there needs to be a "gang of eight," this intelligence group investigation, certainly acting chairman marco rubio and chairman schiff should immediately call the intelligence committees together. they should get a confidential classified briefing on what eric swalwell knew and how much did he give away because the reality is he spent years downplaying the china threat and overhyping the russian threat. eric swalwell did exactly what the chinese wanted. we need to figure out are there others. i can tell you without giving away too much intelligence, this is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the leverage that china is putting on our politicians. there is many, many more. elizabeth: all right. tip of the iceberg, many, many more? fred, i mean, so looks like this

alleged spy got to eric swalwell early in his career. we got to watch the timeline here. she allegedly got to swalwell even before he ran for congress, even before he was put on house intelligence. what do you say? >> it was sophisticated operation. there has to be an investigation like ric grenell said and republicans have to demand fbi background investigations of anyone in congress, staff or members who have high-level security clearances. >> should be pointed out, this alleged spy also got an intern put inside of eric swalwell's office. he was still engaging with her before the fbi said, hey, wait a second, swalwell you have to know about what is going on. by the way this is all going on while china was doing its global belt and road push to be the number one world superpower. fred fleitz, you're great. you will come back soon. great to see you. >> great to be here. elizabeth: coming up "the hill" media opinion columnist joe

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♪. elizabeth: we're staying on this national security story with "the hill" media opinion columnist, fox news contributor joe concha. joe, great to have you back on. senator grassley today ripped the media for blacking out the national security implications of the hunter biden story before the election in order to get joe biden elected. do you agree with that? >> oh, i 100, can you go above 100%? 125% let's put it that way as far ass, elizabeth agreeing with that. i'm old enough to remember some of headlines the some of the

ways hunter biden story was covered in october in a crucial time before the election. taxpayer-funded npr had to say in the most bias perspective you can possibly imagine, here is what they wrote. we don't want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories. this is the hunter biden story and don't want to waste listeners and readers time is it stories that was pure distraction. the managing editor wrote that. "new york times," secret white house last-ditch effort to change the narrative and election of media gatekeepers. media gatekeepers at traditional outlets, cnn, msnbc, nbc, "washington times," "washington post," not only dismissed the story, but suppressed it. social media, elizabeth where they locked out the account of the "new york post" for having the audacity to report this story. if you actually broached as journalist, hey, maybe we should investigate this more, seems to

be a lot of smoke here, you were dub ad right-wing nut in the process. now a lot of people should be coming forward, being contrite not covering the story when it presented itself but instead silence of the lambs, elizabeth. elizabeth: the biden campaign threatened journalists if you cover the hunter biden you will be committing journalistic malpractice. the biden campaign cited twitter and facebook ordering a blackout on the story as treating the story as misinformation when it wasn't. the investigation into hunter biden began in 2018. it was going on when they moved to impeach, they impeached president trump. democrats insisted there was no evidence or there there when prosecutors were already gathering evidence. we've been here before, you know, joe, that is washington has seen family members being problematic. richard nixon, his brother, his business dealings, jimmy carter

testified about his brother's billy dealings with libya. we've been before. why the blackout by abc, cbs, nbc, msnbc, and cnn. ric grenell tearing into jake tapper over this on twitter. >> to get their preferred candidate over the finish line. that is what you do. the bias, cinch omission. speaking of presidential kids, just imagine if this were donald trump, jr. oh, that's right, he was accused of being somebody who met with a russian spy and colluding with russia as the president had been. couple things to look at here, elizabeth, going forward, who does joe biden appoint as his attorney general? do we get another eric holder who literally called himself obama's wing man? or loretta lynch to allow james comey and hillary clinton to meet at the height of a investigation into children children? do we get that kind of attorney general or somebody who allows this to go forward? this is federal investigation.

we need the right attorney general there i have a feeling that will not be the case, elizabeth. elizabeth: the question will be whether it is shut down or kept open. everybody understands coronavirus is hideous, awful tragedy hitting the country. we have nearly 300,000 people dead. the push is on to get vaccines and save them. we don't want people sick and dying. that is terrible. we've been covering that story. this story is a national security story. that is what senators grassley and ron johnson say forge a year. this is about russia and china, u.s. enemies working with the family after major political figure, joe. >> yeah. it was called not just misinformation or disinformation. it was called russian muss information because you have to throw that into there, right? all we've been hearing about the last four years from likes of a adam schiff who heads the house intelligence committee who said he had evidence of russian collusion with the trump campaign.

it was never really pressed to present it. eric swalwell who called the president a russian agent. we see how things are working out for him at this point. the question is should he stay on the house intelligence committee given how easily he was compromised? as far as a week for media, when you put together swalwell and hunter biden and the fact the president was insisting for months a vaccine was very close. he said it would come right around election day, sure enough came a few days after. on a side note, you brought up covid before. this should be a proud day for every american in terms of the vaccine getting to market in the same calendar year the pandemic hit. no one predicted. "operation warp speed" pushes that along, great folks at pfizer moderna and astrazeneca worked tirelessly and it will save lives and we should stop poe politicizing. it is something to be hold. elizabeth: joe concha, thanks

for ending on a good note. >> see you soon, elizabeth. elizabeth: attorney, california republican party chair tom del baccaro on this debate a lot more problems in cities in our country. republican critics and democrat critics saying when will the democrats answer a wakeup call they have lost control of their cities and states? they have also lost the faith and trust of their voters due to out of control lockdown rules that are slamming small businesses and also out of control crime? that story next. >> you have innocent law-abiding citizens who are basically held hostage in their own homes because they don't know if they're going to get shot at or mugged or their car is hijacked from them. the failed policies of these democrat leaders in these big cities are killing these communities. ♪.

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portland, oregon, the mayor saying you know what? protesters, even the democrat mayor ted wheeler backed off, he is saying okay, enough, already, protesters, stop stockpiling weapons like rocks and bottles to attack police, on a journalists at this house facing foreclosure. they're doing things like booby-traps with metal spike strips to puncture tires of police cars. it feels like portland loss control there. >> look at california. san francisco is a failed city. in l.a. the d.a. stands for don't arrest in big cities in places like california where they're decriminalizing so many things. sadly the big cities are dying. elizabeth: talk about what is going on in minneapolis. minneapolis cut eight million dollars out of the police budget there. it is unclear why the mayor can't really enforce a veto

threat and stop it. the push is on to still defund the police in minneapolis. as you point out, a triple digit crime surge there after summer riots. minneapolis is feeling a a lot of pain here. your reaction? >> these cities, the politicians seem immune to what is actually going on, that is how headstrong they have become in minneapolis where over 150 cops have left or are taking leave because it is just not safe for them. let's go back to california. gavin newsom continues to act out in ways, shutting things down while he live as life of privilege, right? remember in l.a. where you had board supervisor person vote against outdoor dining and then she just went out to outdoor dining. this insulation from government accountability is what they're feeling in each of these cities and california. it is of course the reason why,

helping recall gavin newsom in california with rescue california.org. elizabeth: "politico" is reporting that governor gavin newsom's team is really worried about your recall effort. he, you know, we've reported on how he said you know, don't do gatherings at restaurants and he ate out at a fancy restaurant in napa valley. he botched his state lockdowns. a judge called them in the state irrational, arbitrary. he broke his own lockdown rules. now at least eight companies gavin newsom has invested in got, partially owned by governor gavin newsom got millions of dollars in loans from the paycheck protection program when it was intended for small businesses. when those companies employ, one of them employed 10 times fewer workers than the average small business in the program. we know that these businesses are in a blind trust. the governor doesn't have say what goes on, but what is your take on that story?

>> it just feeds into the narrative he thinks he is above it. remember his kids were going to school at private school while others couldn't. he traveled when others don't. he had this, these big events at this french laundry restaurant with many people from many families when he was telling others they couldn't do that sort of thing. that's what is fueling the pot fire. he sit there in his own office making rules and regulations for everyone to live by. meanwhile he is driving restaurants out of business. there is big push back now from small business in this state and it is very bipartisan. i can tell you with the 800,000 signatures we have so far for this effort, it is not a republican effort. it's a very bipartisan effort to push back on him and quite frankly, we're going to get these signatures. we'll have recall of gavin newsom on the ballot in 2021. that will be the big national story other than georgia. elizabeth: tom, we want you back

on to talk about the story, the recall effort against gavin newsom there led by tom del baccaro. come back soon. >> take care. elizabeth: still ahead former u.s. attorney brett tolman with his take on six states today joining the texas lawsuit against those four battleground states. texas saying you guys were unconstitutional in how you conducted your 2020 vote. breaking news, 106 house republicans today filed friend of the court amicus briefs saying they do support the texas lawsuit. the story there next. >> one of the things we hope with 17 of our colleagues coming together the court understands the significant importance by texas but by electors across the country. we've asked for only legal ballots to be counted. texas provided a compelling argument why they can take the case moving forward and we are

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call your doctor today, and ask about prolia®. jo joining me now is former u.s. attorney brett tolman back with us. brett, great to see you again. >> great to see you, liz. elizabeth: good to see you. how do you think the supreme court will rule on the texas lawsuit alleging that the four battleground states were unconstitutional in how they conducted their 2020 vote? >> look, it is a different lawsuit than what we've seen. this is a conflict between states and the supreme court is the only court that can hear this. this is more motivating them to hear the case but it is still an uphill battle because the supreme court has been somewhat reluctant, especially when they have significant standing issues. what i mean by that there is a question whether one state can try to enforce what is happening in another state but reality is there are some good arguments. this is a well-written lawsuit.

it is very likely that the supreme court is giving it very serious consideration. elizabeth: yeah. we've got republican attorneys general in six states, missouri, arkansas, louisiana, mississippi, south carolina and utah joining the texas lawsuit. 106 house republicans filing friend of the court briefs. what you're saying is. lou: it's a challenge based on the constitution. texas is saying that the swing state officials unconstitutionally changed voting rules when the u.s. constitution only gives state legislatures the authority to make changes to the state election laws, not state judges, not other state officials. so ag paxton says he does, texas attorney general ken paxton sauce he does have standing to sue because the way they conducted their vote undercut the power of the vote in texas. not sure how that power of the vote is undercut. that is really the issue, right? >> right. and it is a good argument by the attorney general in texas.

here is in essence what he is arguing. he is saying that the due process clause of the 14th amendment and the equal protection clause are protecting other states that on a national election rely upon the validity of the other states acting in a constitutional manner and so he is not necessarily asking for the supreme court to review and overturn this election, instead to look at the fact that unconstitutional effort or rules were passed by those states which now impacts their protection in this union. it's a clever argument and it may work. elizabeth: yes. really interesting what he is saying. in other words, texas is saying we followed the rules, the constitution. >> that's right. elizabeth: these other states did not but supreme court chief justice john roberts and justice elena kagan said state judges do have the final word how the state constitutions are applied

to election rules, that the courts ought to supervise state legislatures right to voting laws in order to protection constitutional rights. so, wow, this is going to be a deep, intense look at how the states are allowed to conduct their vote and how the u.s. constitution is abided by. your final word? >> that's right. i mean, liz, you hit the right issue there on that prior ruling by the supreme court. it was a fractured court. it didn't also address squarely the constitution ever those states may have been violated this will be key. it will be the conservatives on the supreme court. elizabeth: we'll watch justice amy coney barrett. people are saying that she could be a key vote or impact here. we'll see. >> that's right. elizabeth: we'll see. she is a fair, you know, judge, so we're going to watch how she is. >> she is. elizabeth: good to see you. >> good to see you, liz. elizabeth: coming up former i.c.e. acting director ron sit

tell low on this story again hundreds of criminal illegal aliens released in the sanctuary state of california but many have been rearrested. you won't believe how many and why. the story next. >> people like aoc, the squad, governor cuomo, governor newsom and incoming vice president if she ends up being the vice president kamala harris who compared i.c.e. to the kkk they ought to be thanking i.c.e., i.c.e. intelligence is leading to thousands of arrests outside of this country of people that would come to this country and commit horrendous crimes (teen) mom... it happened again.

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these people according to reporting many of them already had their day in immigration court and ordered by a judge. but a single district judge in california decided it was better for all of them to be related into the community because of the threat of covid or that they had covid. so you're compounding the danger -- [inaudible]. elizabeth: okay. technical, a little bit of technical difficulties there. we're going to work, he is back on. let me just, your shot froze right there. i want to revisit what you just said. the court order forced i.c.e. to release more than 250 illegal aliens to a detention facility in the sanctuary state of california in order to free up space and because they had covid? >> well, it is covid related. this suit was brought by people wanted them out because of circumstances in detention centers for covid that makes it

worse for everybody else. if they are infected it is causing problems for the entire community. a single district judge should not have the kind of authority who regulate people in custody, especially if they already had due process. better to have them released. it is compounded in california because it -- elizabeth: it's a sanctuary state. ron, here is the other thing, they have criminal records. why aren't they immediately deported? they are convicted for things like assault with deadly weapon, battery, child cruelty, violating protective orders involving domestic violence, disorderly conduct, driving without a license, drunk driving, false imprisonment. why are they not, five dozen of them have final orders to be permanently removed from the country but they're still here. they're released back into the communities. you know, you wonder why you

know, more lawsuits are not brought against the state, against the counties in california and the municipalities and in the state of california for allowing this to happen? >> yeah. this is a problem. immigration process and people going through courts, even when they have final orders it is not over until it gets all the way through the due process. that is a problem as it relates to timing but you're right, it is compounded in california because these cities and states are forbidden to assist i.c.e. with people in custody. many will go out and reoffend and pick on immigrant communities. they are picking on immigrant communities they're trying to protect. immigrants are preyed upon by these individuals. elizabeth: you know i.c.e. has been arresting dozens and dozens, if not hundreds of criminal illegal aliens across the country. over 95% of those illegal border crossers, who have been arrested, they had major criminal convictions or pending criminal charges at the time of

their arrest. so, you know, so this is, it is unclear why california is discuss not not fixing the problem, deporting them? i understand it takes a long time for cases to wind through the courts, but you wonder, the california voter and the immigrant who came here the legal way, they got to, this feels so unfair? >> i agree. i agree. that is why you have to have strong borders. you have to have an immigration system that has integrity. interior enforcement removing criminals from streets should be a bipartisan policy initiative. these people violated the law coming here illegally. they went on to offend communities which they resided. so the local authorities saw fit to take them into custody, put them in jail. why wouldn't the authorities in the state of california work with i.c.e. to get them removed from the country, have those threats lessened both at the border and what happens in those cities and towns where they're

preying upon the very immigrant community people want to protect? elizabeth: is california the worst offender here out of all 50 states? are they the worst? >> i think they're the biggest. it's a border state. you know, they -- [inaudible]. elizabeth: okay. looks like we're having technical difficulties. >> for many, many years -- if you can hear me for california for the opportunity that it offers people. and now it is being a place that flouts lawlessness. they don't want to help the federal government and they have, they have a border to control as well. more cooperation is needed, not less. elizabeth: ron vitello you did great battling through the technical difficulties. good to have you back on. come back soon. i am glad that you have been watching "the evening edit" out there, you dear viewers.

i'm elizabeth macdonald. that does it for us. again we hope you enjoyed watching the show. we hope you have a good evening. join us again tomorrow night. ♪ see you back here at the same time tomorrow. ♪ ♪ lou: good evening, everybody. we have a blockbuster of a story and a show for you tonight. we will be joined in just a few moments by attorney sidney powell who this evening appears to have delivered on her promise, crakk e n thunder bolt that she promised two weeks ago. she calls what happened on november 3rd now a 2020 cyber pearl harbor. sidney powell joins us in just moments. but first, we want to touch on a number of new developments today. the federal investigation or joe biden's