straight to bring down criminals, making the city's mass transit system unsafe. sliwa dubbed the move the slasher's express. he challenged mayoral hopefuls to join him. that does it for the "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" with elizabeth max mack elizabeth mcdonald right the starts right now. elizabeth: gop senators meading with gina raimondo and secretary pete buttigieg to nail down the price tag for the massive infrastructure deal. this is president biden's politically risky read my lips moment. economists say he will have no choice to break the promise to tax the middle class to pay for the $2.25 trillion plan. you won't believe the stunning new announce the progressive hard left wants to spend. we have the inside look how the

democrats will try to do all of this and push it through. joining me tonight, texas congressman lance gooden, jason chaffetz, ohio congressman warren davidson, congressman lee zeldin and former acting dni ric grenell and former national security advise core kt mcfarland and laura reeves. biden accused making false claims about his family coal mine. saying that they worked in coal mines. saying this to sell the infrastructure plan. we have the president's own rebuttal. big new reveal on dr. anthony fauci. dr. fauci adamantly denies he approved funding to make so-called super viruses. we'll tell you what dr. fauci does not tell you. he supported quote, potentially dangerous viruses in laboratories to get vaccines made. dr. fauci admitting his wearing

masks indoor inside is not based on science. he said that today, testified doing so, is not political theater. we have new information on how u.s. taxpayers did in fact spend more money than realized for that wuhan lab in china and how dr. fauci's agency admitted quote, it is impossible to account for how china spends the money. the new backlash growing again against new york governor andrew cuomo. this time cuomo accused of profiting off of the pandemic with a bigger than realized book deal. more than five million bucks. and cuomo again mocking the sexual harassment law that he signed as 10 women accused governor cuomo of sexual harassment. also tonight, the head of the powerful teachers union, randi winegarten, now trying to blame the cdc for the cdc using the union's language on school reopenings. they used the language verbatim. we have new sound from angry parents today bombarding randi

winegarten for quote, failing children and much more. new reports on exactly how mexican drug cartels are capitalizing on president biden's border crisis. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay. you're watching the fox business network. we begin with texas congressman lance gooden. okay, senate finance hearing. by the way good to see you, congressman. thanks so much for joining us. we have gop senators meeting with biden officials now. is this president biden's read my lips moment? economists say he will have to tax the middle class to pay for the whopping $2.25 trillion spend. democrats fear losing the midterms. what do you say about this? >> i think you're absolutely right. meetings with gop senators are just for show. we see this before any big spending package the biden

administration pushes. they meet with republicans. they say it is bipartisan. they don't have the votes. they push it through the house, the senate make pass decision to continue the partisan bill. that is what we expect will happen. no way the president can spend this without raising taxes on the middle class. these meetings are just for show. we'll have little debate. no meetings under the nancy pelosi controlled house. we'll see this in the senate the same place it is now. too big, more spending. we can't afford it. elizabeth: we're hearing that the democrats plan to take on the republicans smaller bill. we don't know if it is 568 billion, get that passed. they were do a bigger spend on things like paid family leave. progressive left, they want 7 trillion total in spending. that is more than president biden asked for combined in the prior spending bills. what do you say to 7 trillion? >> it is absolutely crazy. what we're finding.

even the biden administration officials are finding they hate to admit it inflation is going up. all the money hitting the economy is causing prices to rise. everything is happening all at once. it's a very bad time for the administration. this recent gas problem with the pipeline on the east coast has blown up along with the border crisis and democrats are realizing there will not be republican buy-in for a spending bill just not necessary. the economy was already recovering before this last one. by the time this actually gets through the house, to the senate, we should be in even better place with respect to getting jobs back. getting people back to work. mask mandates are coming down around the country. even here in d.c. where we're in -- with the mayor, we're seeing life come back to normal. we don't need more spending. let the economy do its job. elizabeth: we want to ask you this, we want to ask you this, how will they pay for it? republicans are talking about user fees on electric cars because they don't pay into the highway trust fund. democrats want corporate taxes

to go up. they are talking about bringing back obama buy america bonds. republican don't like it, subsidizing state spending and irs more enforcement. which will pass? >> the truth is the tax will pass on everyone. no way you can pass large spending taxes without taxing everyone. every item you just mentioned is possible to wind up in the final bill. somewhere stuffed in the middle late at night you will see a tax on everyone. elizabeth: what about higher gas taxes? what about higher gas taxes? >> absolutely. elizabeth: that is a tax on the middle class. >> that is exactly right. they will say not raising taxes on the middle class but a raise gas tax is a tax raise if they go that route. elizabeth: thank you, congressman. >> take care. elizabeth: look who is back with us, fox news contributor jason chaffetz. the jason the president today

doing the hard sell on his green new infrastructure deal. listen to this, jason. reaction to the sound bite, the president falsely claimed his family worked in coal mines. president biden already admitted in 2004 that wasn't true. watch this. >> my dad used to say, joe, i swear to god, went to scranton, when coal died, my dad was a salesperson, he wasn't a coal miner, my great grandpop was. >> look everybody tells you don't take any chances. the truth of the matter i got myself in trouble. i would be president if not for the fact that i said i had an uncle in the coal mines. turned out i didn't have anybody in the coal mines. elizabeth: nobody in his family worked in coal mines. what do you think of this hard sell? >> there have been a lot of questions about the cognitive ability of president. there he is again claiming a relative who was in a coal mine in 2004 he said no, that is not true. which one are we to believe?

the president is in sales mode but i don't find many people to believe what he actually says. elizabeth: what do you think of the infrastructure bill now moving forward? how do you think it is going to shake out? lots of government borrowing, money printing, inflation is here what do you think? >> that is the deep concern, last time we did this remember president obama passed a 787 billion-dollar infrastructure package. the problem was, less than 5% of it went to roads, bridges and highways. looking at the same thing here. now supposedly the progressives want to up it from 4 trillion to 7 trillion. they forget we already spend in excess $4 trillion a year plus all the other stimulus that's out there. used to be a billion dollars was a big deal in washington, d.c. now if you don't say trillions you don't seem to have any credibility. the problem this flood of money will grow government, it will grow regulations, it will grow regulators but not stimulate the economy. it will hurt the lower class because you're going to have

rapid inflation. you can't buy a piece of wood to build a house at this point. elizabeth: but it looks like the republicans in congress are going along with it. so what's that about? at the state level all gop-led states, all 21 states, all of them with republican governors now plan to stop the federal $300 jobless benefit saying it disincentivizes workers to get a job. but at the federal level the republicans are going along with it, what do you say? >> well, the concern is look, washington, d.c. is handing out money. there is the temptation always to take it. remember when a state or a government takes that money, they have to play by the federal rules. even though they take federal dollar, for instance to build a highway in their state, suddenly you have to play with davis bacon rules. you have to have the environmental impact studies. it costs more to build those roads because you have to apply for it by all those, live by all those federal standards.

so beware. remember they're growing government. they're not actually building road and the basic infrastructure but, if you asked people in one sentence, do you want more infrastructure? people say, yes. but it is not that simple. elizabeth: here, growing government, right, with a big spend here. but we have more than 8 million, 8.4 million job openings and job applications plummeting 13% year-over-year. texas governor greg abbott said texas job openings are now equal to the number getting jobless benefits. when you fold in construction and restaurant jobs, nearly 60% more jobs opened in texas before the pandemic hit. you see all this federal activity, right, congressman? then you see what's happening at the state level, right? so your final word on that? >> utah has the lowest unemployment rate in the nation, less than 3%. we need people doing jobs. we don't need more welfare going

out the door. and lots of states would benefit by cutting that off. i'm glad to see republicans taking the lead on that. they don't need -- some people need a safety net but by and large it is time for people to get off off the couch, get off their butt, get back to work. elizabeth: gotcha. jason chaffetz. heard you loud and clear. come back soon. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: it is good to see you. let's get you updated on israel. looks like the president did have a heated, intense exchange with rashida tlaib, the progressive congresswoman not liking the president's policies on israel. the president is calling for a cease-fire. that is largely been ignored. fox's trey yingst is in southern israel with more. trey? reporter: liz, today is the ninth day of fighting between israel and hamas as much-needed aid entered gaza today with the permission of the israelis. only some aid got through after the area was hit with mortars as trucks started to cross.

rocket fire resumed this morning after nearly six hours of quiet. one rocket this afternoon slamming into a caravan at the regional council killing two people and injuring several others. heavies israeli airstrikes targeted gaza overnight as the death toll there mounts. 214 palestinians have been killed so far and hundreds more injured. >> translator: across the street, our lives, we have no idea where we want to go, where to run. the whole world, the whole street start running then destruction. earthquake. reporter: reports indicate egyptian negotiators are trying to cut a deal between israel and hamas. six rockets were fired toward israel from lebanon. palestinian factions there getting involved in the fight. liz? elizabeth: thank you so much, trey yingst. please stay safe. coming up ohio congressman warren davidson, he is the guy behind a quote, fire fauci bill. dr. fauci heatedly denied he

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function research. you are saying things that are not correct. elizabeth: okay, remember that was dr. fauci denying that he approved gain of function research in china. this is manipulating viruses to make them more infectious. what dr. fauci is not saying, is not telling you 10 years ago dr. fauci coauthored a "washington post" opinion piece in 2011 called for creating a quote, laboratory virus that does not exist in nature and quote, generating a potentially dangerous virus in the laboratory so as to get more vaccines made. let's welcome to the show, ohio congressman, member of house financial services, congressman warren davidson. so we're continuing to see more information surfacing here. what is your reaction to this? >> look, dr. fauci has lost credibility. to say that was an equivocation we'll see where it goes but clearly he supported it. there might be some technical difference in terms of when and how gain of function has been

funded but dr. fauci has been in his role since 1984, a fitting reference to some of the crazy stuff he advocated. he has been all sides of virtually every issue. it is time for him to go. he needs to be fired. elizabeth: we hear what you're saying. that is tough words. we understand where you're coming from. we hear you. scientists still have not discovered any virus in nature that look like the so-called evolutionary intermediate steps. i don't want to get wonky here but they haven't found intier immediate virus on the way to sars-cov-2, covid-19. they can't find covid-19 corollaries in nature. nih funded a project in wuhan lab. fauci said it wasn't meant to create new super viruses. guy reschenthaler has information more than a million bucks went to wuhan, more than double what is reported going there from ecohealth alliance

there are details we're not hearing from dr. fauci in testimony. >> this is exactly it. it is equivocation at best. kudos to senator tom cotton last january was calling out four plausible theories. the most likely one it did originate in wuhan and it was a laboratory system that got out of control. that is what all the data looks like. it is what it looks like to everyone who is objective. unfortunately that does not include the world health organization. we have some systemic problems. frankly that is exactly what president eisenhower cautioned in his fairwell address. everyone is familiar with the caution on the military industrial complex but he cautioned against the scientific technical elite, putting their own interests and the truth ahead of the national interests and i really fear that is what dr. fauci has done for this past year. frankly for a long career. elizabeth: you know, so dr. fauci supported creating in the lab super viruses so as to

get vaccines. this is after the sars virus broke out of a lab in the early 2000s, the smallpox virus and sars have repeatedly broken loose out of laboratoriries by accident. so there is that going on. congressman, i want your response to this. dr. fauci's niaid told "the wall street journal" it is impossible to account for all of wuhan labs' activities or how china spends u.s. money on this. so he is denying it in testimony but then telling the media, like "the wall street journal" is saying well we can't account for how china spends u.s. dollars. what do you say to that? >> sounds like somebody who doesn't want accountability. look, there are possible classified programs that would go on no one would want to acknowledge to give the benefit of the doubt. that is a possibility. i don't have personal information on that but, you know, you look at his role, how long he has been in that role, part of the reason that i think you know, i think he deserves

early dismissal because of his lack of preparation. he pushed all these things for all this time. he has been in the role to make a difference and the difference he made is to be unprepared, to be inconsistent and frankly to be incomprehensible to lots of country. when you look at his exchange with senator paul, not just this one but in an ongoing dialogue with senator paul, frankly he has been wrong on everything that he said with senator paul in testimony. senator paul has put him to the test and every time he comes out wrong. just like this week, the day before the cdc corrected him and went public saying no, if you have been vaccinated you should act like it. elizabeth: you know went on a morning talk show and said, you know i'm wearing masks inside you know, the science doesn't require that but i'm just doing that. but he testified that is not political theater. he said at the beginning of the pandemic don't wear masks. but behind the scenes he was saying we want to save masks, i

said that to conserve masks, ppe for hospital workers. he said you get herd immunity around 65%. he said when the public perception changed he tweaked it to 85%. you see the shifting goalposts here, your final word where does this end up? >> he is not a truthful person. i don't know how you can have a doctor you don't trust. the american people need to talk to their own doctors. the american people need to get dr. fauci off the payroll. elizabeth: all right. congressman warren davidson, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. elizabeth: good to see you. up next new york congressman lee zeldin will give us his take on governor andrew cuomo's $5.1 million book deal on his leadership in the pandemic. all this happening as we've got a new backlash growing against governor cuomo for again mocking the legal definition of sexual harassment that he, governor cuomo, signed into law. at least 10 women accused governor cuomo of sexual

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♪. elizabeth: joining us now new york gubernatorial candidate and congressman lee zeldin. sir, we're so happy to have you on. your take on new york governor andrew cuomo getting a $5.1 million book deal about his pandemic leadership? your thoughts? >> i think it's crazy, over five million dollars? listen i was in the middle of this effort to respond to this outbreak. i haven't personally pocket ad dollar. if andrew cuomo was making $5000 personally, that is $5000 too much and he should be donating it to charity. over five million dollars? the book didn't even do that well t was built on a lie. he was in the middle -- he is under investigation for so many different things related to his covid response. so i mean obviously the book isn't going to be transparent about providing preferential covid testing to his family members at private residents done by state health department

officials. they were the samples moved to the front of the line to a state lab. or obviously the deadly fatal nursing home order and coverup and so much more, which is now the source of an investigations by multiple levels of government. i think a lot of new yorkers are disgusted, they're frustrated. they want him gone more than ever. elizabeth: you've called it, quote, blood money, profiting off of a pandemic. also new york city mayor bill de blasio calls the book deal, state-sponsored literature, this guy, cuomo, clearly depended on state workers to do a lot of the work. you don't need a lot of ethics training to figure out that is not acceptable. your thoughts on that? >> this doesn't pass any type of a smell test whatsoever. so that point is well-taken. it is blood money. people were suffering in the state financially, emotionally, physically, businesses went out. loved ones were lost. result of these policies you had

people lost inside of nursing homes, healthy seniors became infected, passed away at the result of the nursing home order. this is blood money. he should donate every last cent. elizabeth: we have this, governor andrew cuomo again yesterday joked quote about intimate state relationship with health director, howard presser, howard zucker at a press conference. he is mocking the legal definition of sex 2nd that governor cuomo signed off on two years ago -- sexual harassment. 10 women are accusing him of sexual harassment. there is a definition of sexual harassment is very clear. making person uncomfortable does not mean that. a lawyer says just that. turned to health commissioner zucker and said, we have an intimate relationship. did i make you uncomfortable with that question? why is he mocking it? >> he shouldn't be and i believe the governor should resign

specifically, solely, just on the deadly nursing home order and coverup. now with all the accusations that followed and you have women who came forward, they have allegations. that is being investigated by multiple levels. that is not anything to joke around about. that is not nothing to minimize. this governor, by the way, if he was the attorney general right now would be leading the charge to remove, to go after the governor. if andrew cuomo, the attorney general was faced with this fact pattern of someone else serving as the governor, no one would be loud or more forceful going after that governor than andrew cuomo. he will go after the accuser. he will go after us if we believe the accuser. he has nothing to apologize for he says. there is nothing to show remorse for. and he is changing the definition of what harrassment is and it's everyone is seeing andrew cuomo for his true colors. unfortunately this is not andrew cuomo from the last year. this is the same andrew cuomo

beginning at time of governor. this is the same andrew cuomo going back to when his father was the governor. elizabeth: congressman zeldin, thanks for joining us. come back soon. good to see you. >> thank you. elizabeth: we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. coming up former acting dni ric grenell weighs in on the head of the powerful teachers union, randi winegarten blaming the cdc for using the union's own language verbatim about reopening schools, claiming that the cdc quote asked us for that language, not the other way around. we also have angry parents getting their say, bombarding randi winegarten on c-span for failing children and more. the story next. >> i think the cdc is in trouble because they're being asked very sear serious questions, you go back to the campaign president biden said he would follow the science. science saying most schools could reopen. in fact the scientists were saying all schools should reopen.

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♪. elizabeth: look who is back with us. former acting director of national intelligence ric grenell. ric, the teachers union chief, randi winegarten, by the way great to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: she is saying it was cdc who asked us, she is blaming the cdc asking for us for language to use in cdc guidance on school reopenings, not the other way around, when emails show the teachers union pressed the cdc. why should the cdc claim what the teachers union said if they claim to follow the science? they're not supposed to be following the teachers union? >> they do this because this is

the washington, d.c., way. they are out of touch with regular people. they go to union bosses. this happens with municipal employees unions. this happens with auto unions, auto workers unions. it is happening right now with the teachers union. unfortunately we watched over the last year plus time, zoom school, all of the teachers union bosses told us none of this has been true. they should have been at the forefront of opening up schools. imagine if we had teachers union bosses who were representing actual teachers who want to get back in the classroom? i know a lot of teachers. they have been dying to get back into the classroom. they recognize there is a risk. they have been on the front lines. they also know the risk is really minimal for children and for kids and this is the shameful tactic, elizabeth, the media, the democrats, so many people are pushing that somehow

getting covid was a death sentence. and you look at the numbers and it is not popular to say, you don't hear it very often, but 99%, even more than 99% of people who got covid didn't die and so, you know, you will have a whole bunch of people jump on me for say you're insensitive to those people got sick, had trouble, eventually died. of course we're not being incentive to that but the question remains, should we have shut down our schools and the economy when 99% of the people who got covid were fine? or at least were able to get over it with their current medical health care. and so i think it is really important that we bifurcate teachers unions from teachers. the teaches have wanted to get back in to solve the problem. it is teacher union bosses with political operatives at the

white house who have been turning this into a money making scheme for them. elizabeth: you know, we hear you because tens of billions of dollars are going to the teachers union. we have got jen psaki backing down, slapping down the cdc director rochelle walensky earlier in the year when rochelle walensky said you don't need to be a vaccinated if you're a teacher in school. she got shut down by jen psaki, that is her personal opinion. parents really went after randi winegarten, ric. randi winegarten took phone calls on c-span. let's listen to what parents were saying on the phone calls. watch this. >> now the union creates lazy, ineffective people and creates children that have no education. it is pathetic how the teachers union and the government has failed our children. i don't see how you can sit up there and defend that. >> hi, i'm from syracuse,

new york, over last few years we had under 40% graduation rate and high immigration of non-english speaking students. we have fired quite a few teachers to hire translators. 38% graduation rate is pretty pathetic. >> the part i don't understand how come the parochial schools and private schools could navigate their way through this scenario but the public the public schools didn't seem to be able to manage that? >> miss winegarten i would like to ask you why you think a pandemic is a reason to reimagine our education? basics would be nice. the public schools have failed these children before on the education basis, let alone all this social reeducation. elizabeth: pretty withering stuff. what do you say, ric? >> it is really sad actually. this goes to the point that people see what is going on.

they see that the schools were shut down, the teachers didn't want that. the bosses, union bosses turned it into something bigger. i think there is a point to be made in one of the commenters. it is really not public schools. the public doesn't own these schools anymore. it is government schools. and we need to be very clear about getting back the ownership of our schools. we own those buildings, the public. we should be able to use those buildings whenever we want because it us our tax dollars. we should create competition. you shouldn't have to go to the crappy school down the street just because you can't afford to go to another school. let's create real competition. let's have every school compete. then these government schools will find ways to deal with crises like the catholic schools, like the christian schools, like the private schools were able to do through this process. elizabeth: good stuff from ric grenell again. sounds like you're running for governor of california, are you?

teasing you. >> you around i talked about that. i'm looking at the long-term as you know. i really want to do education reform. i want to have a long-term look at the reform, not a short term. elizabeth: got it. ric grenell. you're terrific. come back soon. up next kt mcfarland. biden and the biden administration waiving sanctions own the company building the nord stream pipeline in germany. that move will help russia. this as we have pipelines being shut down here in the u.s., including people like michigan governor gretchen whitmer, ordering a pipeline to shut down during a gas shortage a prominent michigan newspaper calling governor whitmer, quote, clueless. the story next. i mean it... uh-oh, sorry... oh... what? i'm an emu! no, buddy! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ ♪ ♪

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the biden administration is getting criticized for helping russia by waiving sanctions on the company building the in nord stream pipeline in germany. they say this is is a putin crony they're helping. but they're killing pipelines here. can you square this. >> nobody can square this. this is not only putting america second, third, but putting america's interests last. we spent billions of dollars of american forces in europe to defend against russia, but at the same time we're not even putting piddling little sanctions on putin cronies. what we're doing enabling europe, particularly germany, in the nord stream pipeline become economically dependent, energy dependent on russia. it is a windfall for russia. it is bad for american interests. the biden administration, they talk tough, biden said putin is

a killer but when it comes down to doing a deed they won't do it. elizabeth: you know, so they should down, the biden administration shuts down the keystone pipeline killing 11,000 jobs. they want to shut down the dakota access pipeline, the prominent michigan newspaper the detroit news, calling governor whitaker of michigan clueless for demanding a shutdown of a fuel pipeline amid gas shortages triggered about i the colonial pipeline ran some wear attack. secretary mayorkas defending pipelines as critical infrastructure. jennifer granholm says we need the pipes to deliver the fuel. what do you say? >> they think if they up enough blue smoke and mirrors they won't see what is going on. they're canceling pipelines in america. they're making energy much more expensive in the united states. they're making the united states, in fact a much bigger polluter because those pipelines carry natural gas. while at the same time they're

allowing the russians to become rich and economically powerful because of the pipelines there. look at the end of the day, liz, i don't think it is anymore it is about energy stuff. i really think, the twitter world, the twitter chatter, they became very excite ad the thought there were long gas lines in the northeastern united states. you know why? now everybody will have to have electric cars. we won't have fossil fuel cars. maybe that is their real objective, make energy so expensive we can't even drive cars? elizabeth: you need natural gas to power the electric utilities to power the cars. it -- >> they don't make that point. elizabeth: go ahead. i hear what you're saying. >> they think they're getting electricity from the wall. >> we hear you. this feels so negative about america, this position, these positions. final word, kt, quick one, we got to go. >> i liked it when we put america first. let's get back to doing that again. elizabeth: okay, kt mcfarland,

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elizabeth: joining as former dhs acting deputy chief of staff laura reif, it's great to have you on, we report mexican drug cartels are capitalizing on the border crisis flooding the border whether one is the world deadliest drugs, they seized more fentanyl in the first half of 2021 then they did in any of the three years prior. this seems like it's getting worse, what do you say. >> it is getting worse and the shocking numbers go hand-in-hand with the shocking numbers we've seen related to the border crisis in the number of people coming across the border. much of the focus has been on the steady stream of illegal aliens coming over the border but we cannot lucite also of the

poisonous drugs that are crossing the border. the biden administration policies are leading this continue to happen and these drugs spread all over the country, the highest amount of opioid overdoses are not along the border there in the midwest, northeast and that is why every town is a border town when it comes to dealing the drugs. larry: that's an important point the u.s. border throughout is in their cities, so you have fentanyl, the amount seized is about double the amount that was seized in 2019 it looks like 6500 pounds seized from october 2022 april, it's really dangerous and multiple times more dangerous than heroin it's like 50 times more dangerous and i think 1 kilogram can kill half a million people, i'm not sure

of people are aware how dangerous fentanyl is. >> it's the most lethal but we also cannot forget about cocaine, about math in all of these types of drugs they are all bad and increasing, the numbers that you cited are ones that were seized, we also don't know how many drugs are getting through without being seized, we know tens of thousands of americans die every year due to drug overdose. the biden administration not only is continuing to pursue open border policies that allow illegal immigrants to come into the country but also allowing these drugs to come in and how many american lives need to be lost before they stop allowing this to happen and start securing the border. larry: is putting a lot on the border patrol importer

authorities. what are your thoughts about the los angeles times reporting that mexico will open 17 migrant camps inside mexico to deal with a humanitarian emergency that mexico now blames on president biden in his administration, what you stated that. >> i have to ask the question is this like the remaining mexico program that the trouble administration had in place. if people are going to come here and apply for asylum they can apply but to have them wait on the mexican side of the border while their cases pending because if we let them into the u.s. as a biden administration is doing there we return to a catch and release posture and nothing is more effective for marketing purposes and alien smugglers then announcing that the biden administration is releasing people into the u.s. to disappear and possibly never apply for asylum in court in the

biden administration is not deporting these people either. larry: what were your thoughts when you saw the new york times people from 160 countries around the world have been trying to cross. >> it shocking so much has been focused on mexico and the northern triangle countries in central america but the entire world is taking advantage of the policies of the biden administration and coming for economic reasons. when the biden administration seeks to open processing centers and have people apply for asylum, it is drawing more illegal aliens to our border and it encourages fraudulent applications for asylum so the world is watching and the cartels are being enriched with smuggling people and drugs they're making $20 million a day and americans are suffering with the health risk for americans in a security risk as well.

.elizabeth: under federal law yu cannot apply for economic as to be religious and political persecution, thank you for joining us we appreciate you coming, come back soon i'm elizabeth macdonald you been watching "the evening edit", thank you for watching and we hope you have ad evening join us again tomorrow night. ♪. larry: hello everyone welcome back to come though i am larry kudlow, president biden out on the stump today, take a listen to what he said. >> a job is about a lot more than a paycheck it is about your dignity it is about respect, it's about your place in the community, i really mean this to look your kid in the eye and say honey is going to be okay. larry: i agree with president biden about the