david: president bideny earlier today as he tried to quote the declaration of independence. president biden: we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty et cetera tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: a bombshell coming in from the daily cal a bunch coming in reporting the wife of the wuhan lab worker in china died from covid in december 2019 that potentially assign this was an outbreak from the wuhan lab. the full quote press is owned by republicans to probe the democrats stalling even after reports the u.s. intelligence does have a large amount of information yet to be examined. as any politician really want to go into the midterms?

it killed 600,000 americans. congress has donent smaller pros into things like why aren't health insurers comply with covid-19 testingwi mandates? why are the media democrat establishment letting this one go? given the failure, it is a failure just as serious as the debacle failed iraq war intelligence. iraq war intelligence. joining us tonight, andy buzzer the, byron york, mitch rochelle and congressman mo brooks. dr. fauci in 2012 did a research paper saying, yes, probe and research dangerous pathogens inside labs, doing that outweighs the risk of a lab accident that could trigger a pandemic. and we also have this story, prude. ing's new $6 trillion proposed budget. jamie dimon at jpmorgan warns about it, slams biden's tax hikes as, quote, a mistake.

plus this, a report that the biden administration may have to get rid of trump tax breaks for lower and middle class workers to pay for it all. "the new york times" reporting that. also the market shrugging off a new spike in inflation not seen in nearly decades. talks grow of historic price hikes -- price spikes not seen since the '60s, '70s and '80s. but biden's new budget makes this stunning admission: it only projects tepid obama-era economic growth of just 2% a year, admitting this go-nowhere government spending, that's what you're going to have to pay for. also the new push nationwide to give cops more money. this is a backlash against defund the police. this is refund the police. cops still out there saving lives every day as violence soars, but some democrat mayors blame the pandemic for a spike higher in the murder rate not seen in 60 years. and now we have this: far-left

democrats pressuring bank ceos to stop lending to oil and gas companies, potentially killing even more jobs when it was a u.s. oil and gas boom that kept us out of the last recession. and we're going to expose a growing number of local sheriffs in their fight with the biden administration for stopping i.c.e.'s fight to catch criminal illegal aliens. thanks for watching us, i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: thanks for joining us. we begin with former state department lead investigator david asher under the trump administration. he had this to say about the probe into the origins of covid-19. watch this. >> we were finding that despite the claims of our scientific community including the national institutes of health and

dr. fauci's organization that there was almost no evidence that supported a natural zoonotic, you know, evolution or source of covid-19. elizabeth: we have this bombshell report coming in from the daily caller. david asher, the psalm gentleman in that sound bite, says a worker in the wuhan lab told him, yes, the wife of a lab worker died of covid-19 in december 2019. joining us now, former deputy national security adviser kt kt mcfarland. your reaction to that bombshell. >> look, i'm not surprised. what surprised me is how so many people in the united states in the media, national institute of health, democrats in congress, how they always took china's side. china has covered this up from the very beginning. china had three reasons to cover it up. one, they didn't want to world to know what they were doing in that lab and particularly because they had a military presence in that lab. number two, they didn't want the world to think that they were

incompetent, because how did it get out of the lab? and number three, and this is something that nobody's focused on, liz, if it turns out it was manmade and it was made in the lab and it didn't come from nature, didn't come from the wet market in china, then guess what? american citizens and people all over the world can sue china if they waive sovereign immunity. so china's in a whole lot of trouble the more and more this comes out. that's why the chinese are so eager to turn around and say, oh, oh, we're done with this, we're over, no more investigation, let's move on. elizabeth: there's a lot of circumstantial evidence. the new times is reporting that u.s. intelligence -- "the new york times" is reporting it has yet to be reviewed. why after 18 months a are we hearing about that in. >> well, i think that the biden administration came in, and they thought that anything president trump did or any of trump's advisers was wrong. so they were going to turn around on a dime and do just the opposite.

so here mike pompeo, secretary of state, had a very good unit in the state department that was investigating this that was coming up with some serious issues, some serious explaining the chinese had to do, and the biden administration turns the other ear. you know, it just continually amazes me, and i think it's national security malpractice if, liz. here is a pandemic that has caused death and destruction, and it has been more danger to the world and more damage to the world than a world wars has been -- a world war has been, and there's this reluctance on the part of the biden administration and so many people whether it's social media or whether it's in washington to not want to get to the bottom of this. american money -- elizabeth: they're calling it -- wait. nancy pelosi, hang on, she's calling it a distraction. we've got 200 house republicans demanding pelosi put congressional investigators on it, but she's saying it's just a distraction. >> it's not a distraction, it's a national security crisis. and if the chinese are allowed to get away with this and never

have to education explain what really happened, then time and time again this is going to happen. and it shows, i mean, if the chinese can muscle their way into having other countries kowtow to them over this very obvious danger that they unleashed on the world, then i think the chinese, you know, are we ever going to stand up to them, liz? is it just going to be we always apologize to them, we always bow our heads, we always take what they say? this shouldn't be a partisan issue in america. we need to get to the bottom of what happened, why did it happen, how did it happen, how do we make sure it never happens again? elizabeth: you know, there were a lot of red flags. remember early in january 2020 china was trying to corner the market on remdesivir, they were trying to get a lot of ppe into their country. there were so many red flags right at the beginning that there was something terribly wrong. >> yeah, i mean, for example, once the pandemic started or once the virus was out, the lab

was taken over by the chinese military. so any decisions, any announcements were all coming from the chinese military. that's a red flag. the chinese shut down travel within china, so the chinese couldn't go from beijing to wuhan, but americans and other countries, they were told there's no issue, there's no problem. in fact, if you try to shut your country down to travel with china and down to travel with wuhan, then you're xenophobic. and so, you know, red flag after red flag, and yet we all excused it away. we didn't want to think the worst of people. well, sometimes, you know, if it walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, it looks like a duck, it's probably a duck. i mean, we need to investigate this further. elizabeth: all right. kt, it's great to have you on. thank you so much, good to see you. okay, joining us now retired u.s. army brigadier general anthony -- you're that are of the book "chasing the lion." it's great to see you, general.

thanks to your service -- for your service to our country, and happy memorial day weekend. we're thinking of you and the men and women in the armed services and also the first responders out there. dr. anthony fauci in a paper argued conducting lab experiments on contagious viruses to increase their potency was worst the risk even of a lab accident in order to get vaccines. what do you say to that? >> hey, liz. great to see you as well and thank you. i think that statement without the accompanying safety protocols within the labs and beefing up the security and safety in the labs is huguely irresponsible -- highly irresponsible. we have to look at this through the lens of apolitical national security, realist national security where we place america's interests first. and what this was at the end of the day is a weapon of mass destruction. it killed over 600,000 americans, over 3 million people worldwide and growing every day,

and whether or not it was manufactured and manmade in that lab which, you know, there are indications that that's the a case or something that china found out about where it involved from some other source, they still shut down all travel within china but let all international travel continue to export this virus that they knew was resident in people that were traveling. so that was an intentional act. and if someone, if china accidentally launched a nuclear weapon and killed 500,000 americans, i don't think we would be so forgiving. and here because it could be politicized, because the intelligence could be weaponized, it became a political fight which national security should not be politicized like this. and so we've got a weapon of mass destruction in the covid virus, and we need to treat it as such. there needs to be an international commission to get in there to china. china has to be held accountable

for this. whether or not they manufactured it as it appears to be the case or it involved naturally, we've got to get to the bottom of it because of national security implications. elizabeth: yep. we should point out the chair of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley says investigate it. so is this a serious -- should this -- is this a serious, credible issue that there are bioweapons being manufactured in the wuhan lab? is that true? >> i can think of no more serious issue, liz, than this bioweapon that potentially was manufactured in the lab and deployed worldwide and killed millions of people worldwide. it's the number one security issue right now, and i can think, you know, we have allies and partners that their militaries are affected by this. and we have enemies who are looking at the militaries of our allies and licking their chops and saying, well, maybe it's the right time, you know, to invade

country after country. why? because they're disabled by covid. it's a very serious issue i that needs to be looked at immediately. elizabeth: let's listen to senator john kennedy on this, what happened with dr. fauci. watch this. >> on too many other issues, sean, you know, uma a simple guy. i like breakfast food and straight answers, and he won't give a straight answer. he dodges, bobs, weaves, rope-a-dopes. this is serious business. this is not some academic product. people's lives and livelihoods are at stalk. now, his agents -- at stake. he gave money to the wuhan lab that was playing around with this virus. he said, well, they didn't use my money to do that. well, how do you know? what other labs has he and his agency given money to? in china or in the united states? who else is doing this research trying to create frankensteins? elizabeth: so, general, let me

just back up. australian -- so there's that. australian media also reporting that dr. fauci dud not fully alert the obama administration in 2017 when the nih lifted the ban on the gain of function research. there was also loopholes written into grant money saying you can do this research if you're doing it for public safety and national security. those are pretty big loopholes. and in 2011 dr. fauci wrote, co-authored an op-ed for the foe washington post" saying, yeah, generate lab-created viruses even if they're dangerous in order to create vaccines. we don't want to do a pile-on of dr. anthony fauci, it's what steps can we take that put us in this reality of this brand new era, you know, brave new world of massive superviruses? >> yeah. so you hit the nail on the held, liz, because -- on the head, liz, because anthony fauci, this is just another form of

globalization. we're working with all these other countries, funding other countries to do research when, in fact, they're developing weapons, bioweaponsing that could be used against the united states, our allies, our partners -- elizabeth: okay. >> and we need to do a wholesale review i of our allies and partners, our adversaries, global competition and where we're end is sending this money, what it's being used for and follow that audit trail all the way in because it makes no sense to be funding our enemies, and china's an enemy, make no mistake about it. so that they can then attack us as they have done with the covid virus. elizabeth: got it. okay, general tata, thank you so much for joining us. come back soon. up next, former cke restaurant ceo andy puzder weighs in. jamie dimon says president biden's tax hikes are a mistake. he's talking about, you know, a federal -- [inaudible] also we're seeing tepid obama-era growth projected in

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trillion, they want to raise taxes on everything, they're going to let -- even though they promised there'd be no tax increases for middle and working class families, people who made under $400,000, he's going to let the tax cuts that trump enacted expire. that's part of how he's going to raise funds, so they will see a tax increase. this is a very dangerous plan. it's unhinged from reality. it's a progressive wish list. god, i hope it doesn't get through congress. elizabeth: you know, the middle class tax cuts that trump put in place, as you point out, will expire in 2025. "the new york times" reporting that he, biden cannot reinstate them because he can't pay for all of his spending. and now we're seeing a price shock today. stocks, the dow and the s&p shrugged this off, but core cpe shot to higher than 3 %%. last time we saw that, george

bush was president. we're seeing, '60s, '70s, '80s type of inflation price spikes higher in terms of the speed of it. and, you know, do they risk -- you know how nixon and reagan got elected because of things like inflation. is that what's going to happen now? >> well, that's certainly a huge risk for the democrats, and larry summers, you know, who was the secretary of the treasury under clinton and head of the council of economic advisers under president obama is out there warning that, you know, republicans are going to win elections because, as you said, nixon and reagan won based on inflation. and he's very fearful that inflation's going to just take off. we're going to have the kind of hyperinflation we saw back in 1979, 1980, and that will be devastating for the economy particularly, again, for working and middle class families. their going to see the dollars they have dissipate in value or, they're going to see goods go up in price, and they're going to see their taxes go up.

so this is a horrible, horrible, horrible plan, and it's contrary to everything that joe biden promised during the election. elizabeth: you know, jen psaki, the white house press secretary, said -- talks about things like gas prices. she's saying, quote, they're well in line with recent decades. then we have austan goolsbee saying the american people voted for biden's $6 trillion budget and his spending. what do you say to those two comments? >> i don't think that -- i think, number one, you can't say that all, everybody that voted for biden voted based on his going in and spending more money than any president has ever contemplated spending, more money as a percentage of gdp than we spent to win world war ii. i mean, this is -- people voted for biden for a number of different reasons, some of them were angry with president trump. some of them voted for him because they're democrats, and they just happen to like this kind of a program. so, no, the -- what goolsby said

is absurd. this is not what people voted for. people were voting for a moderate democrat. they weren't voting for an ultra-progressive, ultra-liberal democrat president to come in and really turn this economy from one that was doing so well back in 2018 and '19 before the pandemic hit and turning it into some ridiculous, as i said, unhinged socialist approach to ever issue. spending -- you can't, you can't possibly believe that you can create economic growth by simply spending. you can't spend your way to prosperity, and list eye -- history's shown that over and over. elizabeth: listen, the middle class, they've got to get ready. in the four years' time, their taxes are going to go up because the cuts are going to expire, and word is they can't reinstate them because of all the spending. andy puzder, thank you. coming up, byron york breaks

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remember the democrats were very unhappy with facebook and other tech companies back when they were investigating that so-called trump-russia affair, and they thought that facebook had been too nice to trump and the russians had bought a few ads on facebook in wisconsin and somehow that made the difference in the 2016 presidential campaign, so they were upset with facebook. now, of course, you've had the actual suppression and censorship of stories that the big tech companies, for political reasons, don't like. it's still extraordinary to remember that in the last campaign a major news organization, "the new york post," came9 out with a big story that affected president biden about his son's business dealings, and the tech companies suppressed it, censored it, just disappeared it. so something has to be done about that. the parties don't agree, but what's being done in florida

after twitter and facebook deplatformed donald trump is another way to come at this problem. and it's going to have to be solved maybe not with this law -- not with this law, but it's going to have to be solved in some way. elizabeth: you know, facebook just recently decided to say, yes, we're not going to keep on censoring any posts about the wuhan lab leak -- >> yeah. elizabeth: -- and about manmade viruses. so, you know, it just feels like -- and people9 out there get their information from facebook and twitter. it just feels like, you know, the conversation, the natural conversation is getting really distorted and poisoned. what do you say? >> no, that's absolutely true. and here's the big thing, it's whether these tech companies, these platforms like facebook are a publication or not. in the past they have been protected by congress from libel suits and other litigation because they said we're just a neutral platform, and people

posted things on it, and they, facebook, could not be responsible for what those people posted. but now we see facebook curating, editing, creating a news product, and a lot of people are saying, wait a minute, you are a publication. you can be sued because of this. you should be legally liable for the things that you put on, and that would just change the entire game. but -- elizabeth: well, that's a fair way to go because facebook and google and twitter they have been enjoying free newspaper content where they don't have to pay for the overhead of journalists, right? but they get that content, they get to sell advertising off of it, and then they're censoring at the same time. so they are newspaper publishers. newspaper plushers out there -- publishers in the hinterland, they get sued under libel laws all the time. not these guys. doesn't sound fair. your final word. >> well, i think you just made a

very good case for ending this exemption that the big tech companies have. and then we started with this law in florida. they have actually just sort of disappeared and deplatformed people that they don't like, like former president donald trump. and what this new law does is tries to protect political candidates in both parties or all parties from being deplatformed during the campaign. now, maybe that infringes on the constitutional rights of the platforms, but here again this is a major, major problem in our politics with these groups having so much power. elizabeth: cure for free speech is more free speech. byron york, good to have you on. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. just ahead, form new york police detective path brosnan joins us -- pat brosnan joins us. a backlash against defund the

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♪ elizabeth: we've got stunning video coming in. police in austin, texas, rescued an unconscious man,-knocked out. he was inside a truck. the truck was engulfed in flames. just seconds, he was rescued just seconds before his truck exploded. now, this is what cops deal with every day, but now we've got the justice department in a new strategy to combat violent

crime. they say virtually nothing about how cops were slammed by defund the police. and we have this, mayors like new york city mayor bill de blasio blamed the rise in violent crime on the pandemic. this as cities see a catastrophe that defund the police has been. those are the people, boots on the ground, saying that. joining us now, former nypd detective and founder and president of brosnan rich consultants, he's with us by phone, pat bros. and a half. ofat do you say to this notion ayors m may say she vio pae caime can calame blannhe the well, m m b b frlyng brong ner in in de b boet wroet skice pol forceptonceptononon skting guntitilencs less.ss.ndptionallpt e --rationalraal recs. isser exa exa of of th curre scorcdrcrc e eth

waest p ainsenrcenement andan law l. by tbyors,or sssarearhe t brulac. rwis i iit all the empirical data for the their own narratives. when you defund the police, it looks good on tv, but it doesn't work in reality. it becomes a nightmare. the citizens can't fend for themselves. not today, not yesterday and not tomorrow. period, case closed. elizabeth: you know, detective, cities, now we've got cities from baltimore to los angeles moving to refund, increase, give money to police budgets. we've got the murder rate, it's at the highest levels in 60 years. and so you see that happening, that trend, it looks like it might be slightly reversing. and then you have, you know, things like this happening, sir. in atlanta, georgia, a city councilman, he basically said, yes, cut $73 million out of the police budget. he had his own personal car stolen in broad daylight while at a ribbon-cutting ceremony. and we seep seeing stories about

mayors saying, yes, defunding the police, they have spend millions of dollars on their own personal security of police around them and even sergeants around them. you see it in baltimore and new york. what to you say to that? >> wow, what can i say? the ultimate irony, right? i mean, this is, this is a fable that has been pounded around now since the summer of love 2020. the citizens can't fend for themselves. crime is skyrocketing, gun violence is completely out of control. they live in these little bubbles whereby when they look -- [inaudible] they don't actually see what's happening around them. they don't understand that by defunding the police, you further desecrate the law enforcement, you're diminishing their power, you're disemboldenning the guys and girls on the street, and you're just leaving the citizenry to fend for themselves. it's the height of madness. but from their ivory towers,

it's very difficult for them to get a sense of reality and a pragmatic assessment of the facts on the ground. and that's the reality of it, you know? they need to take, need to walk through some tough neighborhoods by themself without their armed detail. elizabeth: yeah. >> see what the real deal is. elizabeth: it is so difficult to be a police officer. you know, the thing is you can do plus reform. newark, new jersey, their police department didn't fire a single shot, so they've been working hard to get illegal guns off the streets. but when you have the reporting not done in a straight way, it gets people like seattle's former police chief carmen best, she quit last year really frustrated. she now blames the media for deceiving people out there claiming the riots last year were peaceful. watch this. >> and the other thing that i found very curious was that the destructive behavior -- for whatever reason, i'm not sure if it was political or otherwise --

did not get the level of -- [inaudible] i would read stories about the peaceful protests, i didn't see peaceful. i was standing, like, 3 feet away from hell, iraq, you know? [laughter] look at what happened. elizabeth: 20 feet away from a haul of rocks being thrown -- hail of rocks being thrown at cops. what do you say? >> look, finally a splash of freezing cold water has woken her up. the reality is the summer of love, all quotes, and riots for fun and profit which we saw where a thousand businesses were burnt to the ground in new york and 500 -- i was a detective during the rock and roll days of crack, and i never saw one car burned. this is madness of the highest order, and unless this pendulum stops and doesn't keep swinging, we're in trouble. we're in deep trouble. elizabeth: all right. pat brosnan, thanks for your

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♪ elizabeth: let's welcome to the show macro trend adviser, founding partner, he is mitch roschelle back with us. okay, we had a lot of news this week, bun of the headlines that really stood out was obama's former epa administrator, gina mccarthy, telling axios it's, quote, ridiculous for the biden administration and climate envoy

john kerry talking about climate change when billions are out of work because of the pandemic, they need a job. then you had alexandria ocasio-cortez saying to the bank ceos this week at hearings, don't lend money to oil and gas firms. what do do you say to this fight within the progressive hard left? >> well, aoc was an e com major, so we -- econ major, so we may have to look at her transcripts. that aside, responsible for 12.3 million jobs respecting roughly 8% of gdp in 2020. also the energy industry or manufacturing industry drives a quarter of the industry that we produce in this country. so if we don't can be produce energy, the manufacturing industry that the biden administration wants to help develop suffers, if we lose jobs, you know, that represent 8% of gdp, how does that help our economy?

the last thing in the world we need right now is to sacrifice our energy independence. the economic hit right now would be devastating. elizabeth: okay. you know what? let's watch gina mccarthy and alexandria ocasio-cortez in these sound bites, then i'm going to talk to you after this. watch. >> we've had 22 million jobs that have actually been empty because of this pandemic. and now is not the time to sit them down and say let's talk about climate, how can you sacrifice. it's just, it's never going to be a winning strategy. right now it's ridiculous. >> so for each of you, if we could just kind of go down yes or no, are each of your firms still financing new oil and gas production? elizabeth: so that was alexandria ocasio-cortez with the bank ceos in testimony yesterday, house financial services. she's the same person who chased

away amazon's 22,000 jobs out of new york city, mitch. >> absolutely. and what i never hear when we talk about green energy and the high quality, high paying union jobs that the green energy initiatives are going to create, we never hear the specifics and how that's going to work, where they're going to be in the country. there are 3 million people in texas, there's 6, 700,000 people in pennsylvania and ohio, important swing states, that could lose their jobs if we wipe out domestic oil production like fracking. so i don't know where we're going to create these jobs, how we're going to create these jobs, but i never hear the specifics, and i think that's important if you want to make policy decisions like telling banks they can't make loans or new energy production. elizabeth: james carville, democrat adviser, this week also said, quote: democrats have to stop being so smug, self-righteous and entitled. they do not understand what it is to be a blue collar worker

anymore. the blue collar worker seems to have gone to the republican party. and we're looking at data, it looks like the oil and gas boom did keep the u.s. out of recession after the 2008 financial collapse during the obama administration. so now we've got russia and china on an oil boom in their countries. what do you say? >> and i also think it's a national security imper tu that we're not reliant upon foreign countries for our oil. we were a net exporter or oil. that's a completely different equation in terms of national security. and no one seems to talk about that either. i think it's, it's sort of a fool's errand to just wave the green card and say we're going to go green without a plan for how to retrain and redeploy those workers and give up something that represents 8% of our gdp. elizabeth: mitch roschelle, it's great to see you. great insights, great stuff. come back soon. when we come back, congressman mo brooks on the growing number of local sheriffs

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alabama congressman mo brooks. great to have you back on. the story about the butler county ohio sheriff, sheriff richard jones, he's had it with the biden administration. he is cutting ties of homeland security in order to stop the administration from releasing illegal aliens into his ohio community. our more shares going to do this nationwide? what do you think? >> i would hope that every single american, patriotic citizen do everything they can to help encourage the biden administration to obey the law. we have laws related to our southern border and the biden administration is throwing them out the window. i applaud these sheriff's who refuse, refuse to help violate american immigration laws. elizabeth: you know, we saw this fight happened in bristol county, massachusetts where out of the blue the homeland security secretary just terminated, basically, he

stopped ices programs in that area in mesa chooses. what is the story with that? >> well, that's a good question but ultimately from the outside not on the inside actually during the discussions amongst the parties, the bottom line is you have a rogue administration that is refusing to enforce the immigration laws that have been settled in the united states of america for decades. each one of these immigration laws that protects our southern border it has been passed by the house of representatives, duly elected congressman and has been passed by united states united states senators, duly elected senators, and signed into law by presidents of the united states. for this department of homeland security, this president of the united states just to refuse to obey american law is contemptible and it's not just massachusetts where we are having problems and it is not just in texas or pick any border

state having problems but all across the united states of america. elizabeth: this sounds like a constitutional fight. our republicans going to do anything about it? >> well, i wish the republicans would do something about it but were under difficult circumstances. we had an election in november 2020, granted the election results are questionable because of various issues that we all know too well but we don't have the majority in the house of representatives and we don't have a majority in the united states senate and, of course, we don't have the white house so until the 2022 elections are behind us we are stuck with what we got and what we have is an administration that refuses to obey the law, refuses to enforce our immigration laws and the united states congress that looks the other way and condones it, if not encourages violation of law. elizabeth: well, now is left of the states to sue the biden administration in court. you see that with arizona, you see that with florida, you see

arizona saying that basically because of the biden and menstruation policies criminal illegal aliens charged with armed robbery, drug trafficking, kidnapping, homicide, arson, drunk driving or walking out of prisons instead of being turned over to ice for deportation so, how could republican support the state? is there any effort to do that? >> we can encourage the state to do on their end to enforce the laws but there's a provision in the constitution in which the united states of america, as a part of the entry of the state into the union, united states of america promises to protect each state from invasion and if the united states of america will not protect these estates from invasion i would submit that the states have the right on their own to protect themselves and say the heck with this department of homeland severity, the heck with this white house and do what they have to do with

their own law enforcement capabilities to enforce immigration laws when and if the federal government will not do it and i believe they have that constitutional right from the constitution where in the united states is not protecting us from invasion. elizabeth: congressman brooks, thank you for joining us spirit good is here. i'm liz macdonald and have a happy >> the people's house -- a family's legend. >> i can remember being a little kid and asking my father what it was. >> a century-old mystery. >> he said, "it's from the white house." and i go, "talking about d.c. white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]