some reports say they might run up to $8,000. this is stupid. don't buy them. you will hurt yourself. that does it for us on fox business tonight. i'm back tomorrow. have a good evening. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. ♪. elizabeth: a new irs scandal under the biden administration. a major illegal leak at irs. 15 years worth of tax returns for the titans of industry. we're talking bill gates, warren buffett, elon musk, jeff bezos, mark zuckerberg. the leak, it looks suspicious. we're asking questions about this. coming just in time for president biden and the democrats big push for tax hikes on the upper bracket to pay for a government blowout in spending not seen since world war ii. why this affects every american's tax security.

confidence in the irs gets rocked again. again another political abuse of the irs? we'll debate it. is that what is happening? with us attorney hans spakovsky, jody hice, pat fallon, vince collagnese. james comer, a infectious disease expert and former acting dhs secretary chad wolf. we have that story, also this. vice president harris getting criticized from all sides. now claims she will go to the border after laughing that off multiple times still not committing to when. her own team said to be frustrated. mexico, el salvador, guatemala, blaming the biden administration for border crisis. msnbc and cnn anchors down playing what is going on despite the fbi labeling the bored ear crime zone a multibillion-dollar business at border based on horrific crimes, drug trafficking human snuggling extortion and murder according

to fbi. states rights versus federal authority. the biden administration threatening legal retaliation against texas after texas is moving to shut border it shelters. border mayors say the federal government is destroying their towns and communities. latest hunter biden bombshell. reporting hunter used racial slurs in text messages days after biden gave a speech claiming ray system in the u.s. hunter claiming about media scrutiny and his father is not helping him on that front. new accusations that democrats are stonewalling the covid-19 wuhan lash leak probe because it would distract from the narrative that former president trump miss handled the pandemic. debate boiling over. has the u.s. reached herd immunity against covid-19? public leaders and studies say

there is growing evidence. why are the lingering shutdowns? are officials ignoring science and playing politics again. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth mcdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we start with the irs and treasury inspector general now investigating a major privacy leak, a suspicious leak to "propublica." 15 years of tax returns each for jeff bezos, warren buffett, and other top bracket americans right when president biden and democrats are demanding higher taxes saying people ought to pay their fair share. look who is back with us, heritage foundation legal fellow hans von spakovsky. talk about the timing of this. we're not sure who leaked it. this is serious stuff. leaking of confidential tax documents, it's a crime. americans are feeling vulnerable about this. what do you say? >> they should.

it's a felony under federal law for an employee of the irs to leak it, punishable up to five years in jail, a quarter of a million dollars in fines it is not just they released information on one particular individual but "propublica" says it has a vast cache of information. that is something that should be easily found out by inspectors and fbi agents. so the real question here is, will the fbi launch an active real investigation to find out who did it? that is a test of the biden administration, whether this was intentional or whether it was done by some employee without permission. elizabeth: yeah. this is a heck of a felony is what you're saying. >> it is. elizabeth: the tax system has been built for decades on a promise returns will be confidential. that has been undercut and rocked again. this is the same irs that pursued a vendetta against

non-profit conservative groups during the obama administration, lois lerner. dating back through fdr, kennedy, clinton and obama. >> no, that's right. don't forein 2014, not that long ago the irs paid a settlement of $50,000 to the national organization of marriage after an irs employee disclosed their tax information which ended up being publicized by the "huffington post," it went to the human rights campaign which at the time was going after the national organization for marriage. urn fortunately the employee they discovered through it was, was not prosecuted for releasing that information. elizabeth: so, here's what the question is though. so the biden administration, they want to give tens of billions of dollars more to the irs to go after uncollected

taxes. they want irs to get everybody's bank account information on gross inflows and outflows. >> right. elizabeth: elizabeth warren wants a wealth tax. they want higher capital-gains taxes. "propublica" got it from anonymous source. they say they don't know who provided them. why now is this happening now? >> well, it is awfully suspicious given the push by the biden administration and democrats in the congress to increase taxes but, again, the irs should have an easy ability to find out who did this. they have a very elaborate internal security system to trace who accesses files through their computer system. so they should be able to find out who did it. that is why conducting a serious investigation is very important and if they don't do it, that itself will lend support to the suspicions that this might have

been intentional. elizabeth: hans von spakovsky, thanks for joining us. let's bring congressman jody hice for his reaction on this. what was your reaction when you heard this story? >> here we go again. one of the reasons i'm in congress is because as a pastor i was harassed by the irs for years over the johnson amendment, speaking certain so-called political issues from the pulpit, being threatened for potentially losing tax-exempt status and so forth. we've seen the irs target conservative groups and here we go again where the irs appears to be weaponized yet again on behalf of an administration to get what they want to. the question here, without any doubt this is an attempt to try to influence the debate in congress as it relates to the biden administration trying to raise taxes and the whole mantra that the rich don't pay enough an here we go. they're using the irs as a

weapon. elizabeth: the pro-h "propublica" reporting they paid little or no taxes critics felt it was tenditious based on percentage of wealth they, showing the rate was lower when wealth is tied up in unrealized capital gains in the stock of companies that they, these individuals built and made successful. so the irony is congress wrote the law lowering capital gains taxes, right? clinton lowered them. that set off the dot-com and tech boom. that is how these guys got their wealth. this feels really like an an unconstitutional illegal move because elizabeth warren wants a wealth tax. that is unconstitutional. the constitution only allows for income tax. it smells really suspicious all around. what do you say? >> i couldn't agree anymore. look at timing of this. this is right on the heels of the biden administration trying to raise taxes, in fact he ran a

largely on this what you're talking about, trying to raise taxes on wealthy, on high income earning individuals. isn't it interesting right on the heels of that push that we have this anonymous leak coming from the irs, showing that that some of these wealthy people paid little to know taxes over last couple years for different individuals. this is going to add fuel to the fire of the biden administration to call for higher taxes and go after them. so as far as i know, i'm not seeing anything that is illegal about what these individuals have done. yes they're able to hire a lot of attorneys to protect themselves from paying taxes but, yes, these are tax laws that congress passed and to my knowledge, there is nothing been found that is illegal bp this. it is all weaponizing the irs to advance a political agenda, the

biden administration. for that reason we need an investigation into this. elizabeth: critics are saying this is really scary stuff. michael bloomberg had his tax returns revealed, he is saying doesn't matter if you're a republican or democrat, whatever your political party is, you should be really worried that this happened. confidential tax information was released. the irs is supposed to be the fort knox of everybody's tax information. the confidence, that is how the tax system is built on confidence. that is shattered once again. we talked to the rank-and-file of irs. the workers don't like to be involved in politics. they don't like it at all. they want to be seen as a straight tax collector. when you see the dog whistles coming out of different administrations, the irs budget, their paycheck comes from you know, approved by senate finance or house ways and means, you got to believe, yeah these irs workers are going to say yeah, we're listening to what those in power say, what they want, even

if it is not explicitly emailed or sit down in a memo. they hear it, they know what is going on in d.c. what do you say? >> this is exactly right. look, we all know that it is criminal to release tax information of private citizens in the united states. that is information that is private, that is supposed to be confidential. we need to know number one, who leaked this. we need to know number two, why. we need to know was the the bidn administration involved in this? are they using the irs to target certain individuals for the purpose of advancing their own political agenda? yes. everyone should be shocked by this. it doesn't matter which party they fall on. this is an issue of a, a major agency being used to go after american citizens that cannot be tolerated. we need an investigation to get to the bottom of this and wherever that investigation leads us, even if it goes to top

individual of an administration, we need to know it, we cannot have the irs being used politically to go after and target individual citizens. elizabeth: congressman hice, good to have you on. come back soon. still ahead vice president harris facing criticism from all sides. now says she will go to the border after laughing that off multiple times. the question is, she is not saying when. reports coming in her own team is frustrated by her remarks in central america. the white house is perplexed according to cnn the media downplaying what is happening at the border. we've got that story too. the fbi labeling the border a crime zone. congressman pat fallon with us next. >> there's a reason joe biden doesn't want to go to the border, because they know if they go, the reporters will follow them, the tv cameras will follow them. their strategy is simple, try to cover this up. you know where they're not

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elizabeth: joining us now texas congressman pat fallon from armed services. congressman we're happy to have you on. vice president kamala harris, now she says she will go to the border but she is not saying when she is going to go, right? she laughed this off multiple times saying not getting involved in quote, grand gestures. this is unnecessary political theater. do you think she is going to go? >> i don't know but definitely necessary to go. she was anointed, appointed the border czar 77 days ago. the very first thing you should do is go to the border. hive been there several times. you have to ask the people on the ground what's happening. she has, she is blaming this, not on biden's insistence on canceling policies that worked under president trump, like the wait in mexico policy, increased

deportations, building a border wall but she is blaming it on climate change. elon musk shouldn't bother going to space because kamala harris is on another planet. elizabeth: okay. we heard that one. okay, the thing is, she wasn't laughing when critics say she wasn't laughing as you point out when she was using the border to attack trump. she wasn't laughing then. you know the question is as you point out if she is in charge of it, shouldn't she be viewing the problem first-hand, looking at the end result of the border policies by the biden administration, not just root causes? let's watch vice president harris talking about the border. watch this. >> people at both the front end and the back end why not bo to the border as well? would you see -- >> listen i've been to the border before. i will go again but when i'm in guatamala, dealing with root causes, i think we should have a conversation about what is going

on in guatamala. okay. at some point, you know, we are going to the border. and i haven't been to europe. i mean, i don't, i don't understand the point you're making. i'm not discounting the importance of the border. i came here to be here on the ground, to speak with the leader of this nation around what we can do in a way that is significant, is tangible, and has real results. i will continue to to be focused on that kind of work as opposed to grand gestures. elizabeth: what do you say, congressman? >> i'm really disgusted because the root cause of this border crisis, the biden border crisis is we have a defacto open border. people are pouring across the border. they're being let in. the american taxpayers are paying for them and they're transit usually on flights all over the country. the drug cartels are ferrying

people from mexico to central america. they're working for cartels when they get here. this is human smuggling, sexual trafficking operation unlike seen by humanity before. for her to laugh off, folks get here, say come on over, they take care of you, they don't send us back. that is what is happening here. elizabeth: the fbi says effectively this is a crime zone what is happening at the border. put out a statement that the border is multibillion-dollar industry of crime. drug smuggling, human trafficking even murder and extortion, drugs are pouring in, fentanyl, overdose deaths are up 25% in new mexico. the southwest and west coast is getting hit hard with drug overdoses and opioid and fentanyl trafficking. when you listen to what the vice president is saying she is talking about vague deals with mexico, she is admitting talking about mexico taking back illegal

immigrants. mexico, guatemala, el salvador, saying yeah the biden administration policies created the border crisis. what is the result of this trip. >> the guatemalan president blamed the border crisis on biden. the president of mexico, obrador blamed the border crisis on biden. the numbers don't lie. under president bush, i'm sorry under president trump in 2020 there were 46,000 border crossings. there have been already 171,000 illegal border crossings in the first four months. we're on track for 2.6 million this year. it is unsustainable. we have, the real reason she doesn't want to come to the border is because just like senator cruz said, the press will follow them. they will have to address the crisis. the mainstream media is ignoring it and so is the white house. elizabeth: you know, is this just about optics? they could have picked up the phone, said, central america be keep the strong border policies

or we'll cut into your trade deals? we've seen the optics before. empty facilities that were democrat congressman even out of texas these are fake photos showing empty facilities when you moved illegal immigrants to another facility. is this just about optics? >> yeah because certain policies work and we know that. nobody is going to come from central america illegally and risk, women, there are very few people talk about, most young woman, 30% of them experience the horrors of the lawlessness in mexico with being victims of either sexual assault or rape along the journey. who wants to take the journey, if at very end of it when you get to the united states you wait in mexico and denied entry anyway? that will stop the flow. president trump did that. it was flood. became a trickle. biden took over and kamala harris blames climate change? it was climate change all right. the climate changed at 1600

pennsylvania avenue come january 20th of this year. that is what changed. elizabeth: congressman pat fallon, good to have you on. come back soon. >> thank you very much. god bless. elizabeth: up next we're following the latest hunter biden bombshell. reports that hunter biden used racial slurs and text messages, these texts coming days after the president claimed systemic racism in the u.s. showing hunter biden claiming about media scrutiny and his father is not helping him battle that. "the daily caller" vince collagnese breaks that down next. >> let's see how many democrats call out hunter biden, call out joe biden for these clan-like kla-n-like statements against black people

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show "the daily caller" editorial director vince collagnese. love having you back on. what is the political fallout of this story, "the daily mail" reporting that emails forensic experts examined from hunter biden's laptop allegedly show hunter biden using racist slurs multiple times? what is the fallout of this? >> i guess it depend how you use the word fallout. measureably, nothing in terms of the mainstream press, the media has done what it normally does with hunter biden stories, ignores them. we were told last year there was this pre-tex, maybe these were

hacked materials and maybe they aren't real. maybe this is russian propaganda. all of that, these are lies. it is all real. it definitely was real. forensics have been done on the laptop. emails are real. this is hunter biden's laptop. the material is authentic. entirely partisan politics this story is being ignored. i think it is one of those textbook cases of hypocrisy. you and i both know if done j had a laptop that contained this many racial slurs somebody would figure out a way to imprison him already. that is not the case with hunter biden. elizabeth: hollywood is silent on this too. the media is pretty silent on this. the text messages are surfacing days after president biden, made statements about the u.s. being systematically racist. you know, critics are pushing back on that speech saying you can't legislate or litigate out of existence stupids like racism, but we have the best

system in the world to catch bad guys. that the u.s. is not systematically racist. there is a fight over that. "the daily mail" will live on this for some time. they have been doing a lot of stories on this. this isn't going away and they're finding other text messages from hunter biden complaining his father is not doing enough to help him with the negative barrage in the media, that are reporting on this. so more text messages about that, vince. >> i think what is really important, the most important thing, look, hunter biden can be a scumbag. he can have personal problems in his right. in reality the person we're most focused on should bs, the guy sit negotiate oval office, joe biden, the reason hunter biden is such an important story, not just his blood relation, how he used that relationship. he was paid handsomely by people in foreign countries for access to his father, that is abundantly clear at this point. as a result this in a normal functioning democracy would be a

substantial scandal because it suggests that joe biden, the sitting president of the united states is vulnerable to either blackmail or he has been paid substantially for some sort of service that totally unclear and opaque ultimately to the american people. we are owed answers. so when you see things like 10%, chinese relationship, that matters a lot. elizabeth: senator ron johnson and chuck grassley trying to dig into this. there is another text that hunter biden said i'm the most ethical person around. i have never done a dishonest deal. the fbi is investigating his laptop for alleged tax evasion, potential money laundering. there was also about him selling access to buries marks the energy -- burisma, the energy company in ukraine that paid him a million bucks trying to get strategieses officials there under a doj probe for breaking foreign lobbying laws. burisma, hunter was trying to hook up burisma with blue star

strategies to sell access inside of the u.s. government to get bribery charges dropped against the founder of burisma. it goes on and on. the question how come he is not yet hit with foreign lobbying law violations? >> that is a great question. this comes right down to whether or not the justice department is ever going to be able to restore faith in itself as an institution. think about this. the obama-biden administration had a justice department that launched an out of control investigation, a partisan witch-hunt against the last president of the united states, dogged that guy with russian collusion nonsense that was completely invented by democratic political party operatives. a lot of people lost confidence in the justice department. now is the perfect opportunity for the justice department to prove it will respond without fear or favor. that it will actually enforce the law as written. so we'll see what happens. if this gets buried which it may

very well, that may very well be the case given the justice department's recent behavior on so many political cases it will be another sign that americans have reason to lose faith in an institution we once had so much confidence. elizabeth: all right. vince collagnese, thanks for joining us. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. coming up congressman james comer. new accusations, reports out of "the christian science monitor" saying democrats are stonewalling the wuhan lab leak probe because it would distract from their narrative that former president trump mishandled the pandemic. stay with us. ♪. >> certainly looks like there is some group out there stonewalling us. we're trying to get the information so we can answer questions for the american public. that's our job and we're getting stonewalled. we also need to know that the various ages is -- agencies of the united states knows. if there is some group trying to block it, shame on them. we have to find the answers.

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♪. elizabeth: democrats in congress reportedly blocking multiple requests for a probe into the wuhan lab leak theory. government officials blocking it too, despite the livermore national laboratory now saying it is plausible and should be investigated. joining us now congressman james comer from house oversight. sir, it is good to have you back on, great to see you again. this is the "christian science monitor" reporting this, that democrats are blocking this. is this true? is this what is going on? >> certainly seems that way. you know the democrats are worried for two reasons about the origination of covid. number one, they're worried that donald trump will be proven right. and number two, they're worried that they will offend their progressive base so worried about political correctness they're afraid this might somehow be offensive to asian-americans which of course we all know it's not but regardless the democrats don't

want to talk about this which is eye roenick because they tried to turn over every stone possible for four years investigating russia and any type of potential collusion between donald trump and russia. now we have the biggest scandal of my lifetime, the covid pandemic and they don't want to lift a finger. they don't want to talk about it. they certainly don't want to investigate it. elizabeth: yeah. "the christian science monitor" reporting that they're talking to democrat officials in congress saying it is being stonewalled because they don't want, democrats do not want to distract from the narrative that president trump mishandled the pandemic. you know, so the stonewalling is happening. the nih is accused of stonewalling republicans on house energy and commerce. secretary of state is accused of stonewalling energy and commerce. and nancy pelosi yet to respond to the letter from 209 republicans saying yeah, get congress, congressional investigators on this. so what do, what are you hearing

democrats saying about this? what are they saying? >> they're not saying anything. we just had a committee hearing yesterday on the oversight committee. several members, myself called for a hearing on this. they asked when we will investigate this. the democrats won't even respond. they smile into the camera and act like nothing ever happened. they don't want to talk about this because this was an issue -- elizabeth: wait a second. wait a second. hang on, hang on. wait, wait, wait. they're going to go into the midterms with 600,000 americans dead and they're not going to even at minimum have a commission in congress to look into this? we have had all sorts of studies and commissions in congress look at all sorts of things. 600,000 americans dead don't even rank a commission? >> it's a tragedy. the only commission that they keep talking about is the january 6 commission. they don't want any part of this. they're scared to death that they're going to be proven wrong. that this is going to embarass

their friends in the liberal mainstream media because republicans have been questioning the origination of this from day one, always came back to the wuhan lab. this is what president trump said. they went all in saying that president trump was racist because he called it the wuhan virus or the china virus. now we know that is probably exactly right and donald trump was exactly right. and that is why the american people like donald trump because he said it like it was. this is something that the democrats are going to be very embarrassed by. they have no explanation for why they turned a blind eye to this. if china had been honest. if we pressed china. democrats in china worked with us on this maybe we could have gotten answers, got the vaccine sooner, maybe less people would have died. maybe saved taxpayers million of dollars. the democrats have a lot on their hands with covid-19 and origination of it. elizabeth: have a

january 6th commission, critics say do that, do this too. because they don't want to haul in dr. fauci or peter daszak from ecohealth alliance? they don't want to admit there is a big gain of function bureaucracy at play stonewalling all these probes? dr. fauci is out in the media again today saying when you challenge me, you're challenging the science. okay, you can say that but the point is why you letting china and their labs known for recklessness and safety problems do dangerous gain of function research that would do things like make eye bowl -- ebola airborne. that is what "the new york times" reported they're doing that gain of function research is about. >> we need to find that out. maybe not origination of virus. we may never be able to prove that. we need to know what is going on in wuhan and other labs in china and what american companies have interest there. if there is a reason american

companies are doing that type of research in china instead of the united states, if the reason is some type of liability issue we need to know about it and it needs to be fixed because we don't need to do anything with china could harm our national security. we can never put a price tag on the damage done from a national debt standpoint to a year of our lives, to the disruption of the economy, one year without a decent public education for most schoolchildren. democrats don't know what to do. they're just hoping it will go away. elizabeth: congressman comer, thanks for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on, liz. elizabeth: sure. when we return, infectious disease expert dr. amish ad alj a about this new debate. did the u.s. already reach herd immunity of covid-19? a lot of evidence to support it public health officials say. why do which still have shutdown

polys in blue states? we take on the debate next. >> if you change herd immunity that changes the equation. only way to get the 85%, is get mandates and vaccines. instead of respecting their opinion, they are the obstacle getting the society back to normal.

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome to the show johns hopkins infectious disease expert dr. amesh adalja is with us. so really great to have you on. dr. marty makary wrote an op-ed. he had good news. he is pushing back on the con sin sus about shutdowns. he is saying herd immunity is here. citing studies from washington university, university of pennsylvania, mount sinai university school of medicine. what do you say? >> i think we're getting closer and closer to herd immunity in

some geographic areas. people vaccinated with those with prior infection you're right around that number. many cdc models did not predict the precipitous drop in cases. their underestimating the natural immunity in the population and it is real and something we can count on in certain circumstances. elizabeth: it is really interesting. he said in february, nearly half of los angeles cases had natural immunity. even a year of a people are infected they still have antibodies. this is strong stuff. why are the fights in blue states about shutdowns like in washington and oregon. >> they're trying to be cautious and don't want to make an error, they want to error on the other side, looking at vision numbers without counting immunity from

prior infection. why states like florida and texas they were doing a lot better than people thought. they didn't get hard because they had so many natural infections among young people. that is one hypothesis. when we look at the whole picture we have to account for natural immunity because it is clearly playing a role in declining cases we're seeing. we want vaccines as high as possible. the many people vaccinated is better it is and vacs sign immunity is better than when it comes to saints like the b-151 variant discovered in south africa. natural immunity is not nothing. it is really significant in certain circumstances. >> that is an important point you're making, right? the human body fighting and working against it. dr. fauci said in august of last year, when you have fewer than 10 cases per 1000 you should be able to open up safely and open up. dr. makary said the u.s. hit that point in mid-may. should we stop the fear-mongering and level with

the american people? >> i think we're in a totally different phase of this pandemic. we basically tamed the virus in terms of removing its ability to put hospitals into crisis because the vaccine as well as natural immunity has an impact on preventing serious disease hospitalization and death. we basically decoupled cases from hospitalization and deaths. that is what we're going to do. we're not getting to covid zero. our goal is to make this much more manageable respiratory virus to manage hospital capacity. i think we're there now. i think we need to move into the new phase of the pandemic where the public health emergency largely passed. elizabeth: we'll have to live with it largely like aids and hiv, right? last word. >> more like influenza. we'll have baseline level of cases and hospitalizations but it will never be a crisis because we've done so well vaccinating high-risk people. elizabeth: thanks so much. dr. amesh adalja good to have

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go to golo.com to get yours. that's g-o-l-o.com. larry: entrance begin acting dhs secretary is with us, good to see you. what is your take on the big constitutional fight directing at the border, the biden administration is threatening to sue texas texas will have to shut border shelters and with the big fight over state right and federal policies texas is saying the illegal immigrants that come here, the law says it's supposed to go to federal custody, not state custody that twice texas is saying shut the shelters. >> governor abbott was very frustrated like many border states and communities around the country. which is a very ineffective border security and immigration policy coming from the

administration you continue to see the high numbers, in the month of may 18, 0000 apprehensions, lot taking place in texas, and to solve this problem, they're not solving it, the biden administration is choosing not to solve the problem in states like texas have to deal with the consequences of that, this is the governors way of saying enough is enough, the state is going to do its job and protected citizens at the end of the day this is a crisis caused by the biden the administration and they need to bear the brunt, the cost and the consequences of that, at the end of the day no child, were getting care for everyone that is in our custody but the governor there in the great state of texas is growing frustrated like many others around the country as well. elizabeth: texas has eight law states, including florida and arizona also suing the biden administration over this. the biden administration says

supremacy clause of the constitution says the federal government has the power and the authority over immigration law, the state or senior inflicting damage to our communities and towns and under the constitution we have a right to protect ourselves, what is your take on the constitutional fight. >> the states have a case to be made here it's absolutely correct the federal government should enforce immigration laws, they're not enforcing it, there choosing to look the other way there choosing only to enforce certain laws, that is in the interior in cities across this country and dangerous individuals, states have a case to say the federal government is not fulfilling its mission in his job to enforce border security and immigration law without prejudice in states like texas, arizona and others are challenging that they had limited success in the early days of the administration but

as you indicated several more going through the court system. i think they have some merits, each case is going to be handled differently though. larry: a texas border, a elected mayor says there's no reason why border towns should have to deal with federal issues when they are not doing enough to fix the problem. the border towns and communities are getting swamped with crime to the point where schools and children have to be shut down due to police car chases with illegals, illegal immigrants, let's listen to the mayor, watch this. >> six or seven months ago we don't have what we had today the mayor in mcallen i need to make sure that i protect our taxpayer funds, there is no reason that we should be burning with federal issues, i'm talking immigration, the border patrol drops them off at the mcallen bus station around the area, what do we do we are very limited to what we can do, what

we do is more public safety and, we should have to be doing that but we do for our residents of the immigrants protection. .elizabeth: what do you say. >> i think that you hear that very similar message all along the border and other parts of texas and arizona, california the community along the border of love to deal with the consequences of simply no border security policy and the biden administration doesn't care butte been hearing about these for four months about the historic numbers of illegal folks entering the country illegally, they are simply not choosing to do anything different, they continue to have this. as far as i can tell the biden administration continues to nor law enforcement and other elected officials and we can't continue to deal with the historic numbers, our cities are

overrun and our resources are tapped and it's unfortunate that it's coming to that. elizabeth: it's going to be hanna store battle, thank you for joining us. i appreciate it, i'm elizabeth macdonald you been watching "the evening edit", that doesn't for us, thank you for watching we hope you have a good evening. ♪ ♪ ♪. larry: hello welcome back to "kudlow", i am larry kudlow, who was lois lerner, a tough question, remember lois lerner is at the center of an irs scandal that occurred during the obama years, she is the head of the exact organization division of the internal revenue service, she learned that groups, some groups like the