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congresswoman nancy mays, charlie hurt and kristin tate. vice president harris again laughs when asked will she visit the border, this after the fbi director testified yesterday the border is a crime zone. tonight we've got the numbers showing up from around the world. it's big. you may be shocked. plus, china's new message to president biden, it's embarrassing. china says it can help president biden out of rising u.s. inflation from his government spending blowout. china warning it's not temporary, but wait until you hear what china wants in return. and now this, a bipartisan new push in the house aimed directly at the power of facebook, google, amazon and apple. we've got that story. also the doj inspector general opens a probe into the trump administration's secret subpoenas to apple to -- belonging to house democrats. and we are following the fbi now probing the illegal irs leaked

tax returns for america's most wealthy including elon musk, warrant buffett and mark zuckerberg. the probes are now expanding, five in all. this affects all of america's tech security. the irs leaks hitting right when democrats demand tax hikes on the rich to pay for their supersized government spending blowout. also, more e-mails showing hunter biden allegedly tried to put the squeeze on sovereign wealth funds and also foreign leaders. the gop getting stymied by democrats on a legislative counterattack about china's covid-19 virus. will democrats really go into the midterms not investigating a pandemic that killed 600,000 americans? plus, the virginia parent who survived communism gives a stark new warning about what u.s. public schools are teaching our children. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now.

♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin with texas governor greg abbott. he will now build a southern border wall in texas and also barriers in easy-to-cross areas. he says he will arrest and jail illegal immigrants on state charges if they do things like trespass. let's welcome back u.s. representative john debt coe. -- john tet coe. this will set up a major constitutional battle about federal authority and state' rights. where do you come down on it? >> will listen, we have to secue border, and i applaud any governor who's trying to do what the federal government should be doing. president biden, on january 20th, basically put out a welcome sign to illegal immigration, and now it's up 675%. that's illegal crossings are up

675%. and in may alone, 40,000 individuals came across the boarder from place other than mexico and central america, and another 140,000 came as cross from mexico and central america. that's a stunning thing. it's leaving us very dangerous, and we have to do something about it. i applaud the governor for taking a tough stance. elizabeth: he's saying he'll get around any supreme court challenge because illegal border crossers interfere with texas' new border wall, they will have committed state crimes like criminal mischief and criminal trespass and vandalism of state property. to your point, almost 34,000 people from countries outside central america showed up at the u.s. southern border in april. 34,000 from 150 countries. they're coming through panama. panama is seeing an influx from asia and the middle east and africa. but, you know, getting back to what's happening with the border, with what arizona and texas are doing, will the 48

other governors, should they step up and send law enforcement there? that's what these two governors want. what do you think? >> i think we need to do whatever we have to do to secure border. president biden and vice president harris have abdicated their respondents to keep us safe. and it's -- responsibilities to keep us safe. don't forget, every single person that comes across the border and doesn't go through a port of entry is crossing into this country illegally, so every single one of them is committing a crime. how does it affect places like my area in upstate new york? the drugs because of the influx at the border as well and all the resources have to be focused op individuals coming across. it's leaving gaping hole in our security against drugs. fentanyl and heroin drug seizures are up in astronomical numbers. so it's vital that we work together to try and stop this. and all the president has to do rescind his orders from january 20th, and he's not going to do that. it's a very dangerous thing he's doing because people are coming

in from scores of countries all over the world because they know our southern border is a sieve right now, and it's very dangerous. elizabeth: you know, you and senator portman made the point that it used to be that drug cartels were shipping drugs into the u.s. using the post office. you guys shut that loophole, but now they're distracting border patrol with often i companied -- unaccompanied children. and what these golfs are says -- governors are saying, this is a 50-state issue. border security hits all 50 states. this is what i think you're pointing out. let's listen to what one mayor is saying is going on in his area. wash watch this. >> i can name some of them. they've been from iraq, from iran, they've been from china, they've been from russia, they've been from the congo. right now it's a big surge of venezuelans, they're from cuba, honduras, el salvador. i don't even have a complete list of all the 73 countries, but it just, it keeps growing

and growing and growing. here lately they've been jumping out and bailing out by our local elementary schoolses. so we've had to put the elementary schools on lockdown, and we had to bring more law enforcement in to search for these individuals. you know, 90% of these cars that we're catching now, we're finding loaded firearms in them. elizabeth: yeah. to he's saying they've got -- so he's saying they've got weapons and things like knives, sir. this is what the border cities and towns have been desperately trying to draw attention to. your word on that. >> well, listen, i started out my clear as a federal organized crime prosecutor, and i did so for 20 years in el paso, texas, and i was going after cartel-level drug traffickers. you cannot pass the border without paying the cartels money. the cartels, therefore, control the border. they control not only the flow of illegals, but they control the flow of drugs. is so what they're doing is they're captainizing on e --

capitalizing on illegal coming across. biden is inare riching the cartels. -- enriching. we're also able to control the pinch points for drug shipments because they'll send 100 people across, let's say in the rio grande, and border patrol agents come off their post to go help with that surge, they bring the drugs in the back door, and that's affecting us. and another thing that people need to understand is the biden administration's putting these people on planes when they come across and them telling them at some future date they may have to appear in court, not giving them the necessary paperwork. we don't the know who they are, they don't have any identification. and those people -- often times they go into those cities where the cartel members meet them, and they're paying off their debt to get across because these people don't have $4,000 in pocket, and they're working for the cartel in cities all over

the country. it's amazing to me -- yeah, they are. and vice president harris is not going to the border because she doesn't want to go to the scene of the crime like a good prosecutor would do. she wants to turn a blind eye because if she goes there, they're going to tell you exactly what i just told you. elizabeth: all right. congressman john katko, thanks for coming on. come back soon. let's bring in former acting i.c.e. director tom homan. okay, the move by the texas governor -- it's good to see you, tom -- the texas governor and the arizona governor, this is the rebuke of president biden and vice president harris. what do you say? >> i say governor abbott is an american patriot. he's taking it upon himself. look, it's not just a humanitarian crisis. governor abbott recognizes this is a national security crisis. as you just said, liz, you know, the cartels, they'll send these family groups and kids across so they can send the drugs. 1,000-1,500 got-aways a day. who are they? gang members, future terrorists?

we don't know, and that's a problem. governor abbott is not only protecting the citizens of texas, he's protecting the united states a because as the congressman just said, they're not staying in texas. when i was on an airplane two weeks ago, they were going to boston, new york, philadelphia, seattle, chicago. known as sanctuary cities, of course. they're going all over the country. governor abbott's got it right. he's defending this country, not just texas. elizabeth: you know, princeton university ranks president biden's first year in office as among the ten worst when it comes to border crises. let's watch the vice president again laugh and snap at a reporter who asked when are you going to go to the boarder? the president put you in charge of it about three months ago. watch this. >> i've said i'm going to the border -- >> when are you going to the border, vice president? >> the administration has -- i'm not finished. [laughter] i've said i'm going to the border. >> do you have a date? [speaking spanish]

>> i am, will keep you posted. elizabeth: okay. we've also got breaking news right now, tom. former vice president michael pence tweeted out a tweet that is slamming the vice president for not going to the border and showing imagery of him appearing there. so, you know, basically we're seeing this just ratcheting higher in d.c. as a real problem for the administration. where is nancy pelosi? where is' chuck schumer, where is the squad? we've got toddlers being dropped over border walls, infants who can't even walk abandoned in the desert, children crying. a they're being used and abused by the drug cartels. where's the squad? where's nancy pelosi on this? two first of all, kamala harris' lack of engagement is disgusting. she's the vice president of of the united states. children are dying, they are drowning, dying in the river, women are being raped.

the criminal cartels are making billions, fentanyl's flowing across the border at a higher rate than anytime in history because of this crisis. again, humanitarian crisis to a national security crisis, and she giggles. she goes to foreign countries and talks to people down there, to the leadership down there where the people are fleeing from and refuses to talk to the men and women on the border, the experts. why? because she don't want to hear what they have to say. it's her policies -- she wants root causes? her policies, the biden administration's policies, the immigrants who come across the border who i've talked to last four or five times, they all tell me they're coming because biden has opened the door. she needs to do her job, and by giggling it's just an insult to the american people, an insult to the lives lost, an insult ott men and women who are securing the border and putting their lives on the line. as far as aoc and the squad? i don't know where they're at.

a, oc stood in a parking lot under president trump and crying her eyes out. where is she know? children dying, women being raped and the vice president giggling on national tv about this crisis. they're missing in action. this eau shows you it's all political, they're not caring about protecting these vulnerable people. it's political, political, political. nothing else to it. elizabeth: all right. tom homan, thank you for joining us. i really appreciate it. thank you for your service to our country. coming up, china has a new message for the biden administration, and it's an embarrassing one. china now says we can help you, president biden, out of your inflation trap from your big government spending blowout. china also warning u.s. inflation is long lasting. wait until you hear what china wants in return. representative ashley hinson next. >> we are seeing prices go up. and, you know, it's interesting, we're going to have to raise prices. we're seeing beef prices

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the house subcommittee on homeland security. it's great to have you on. china is sending messages through its state media that it can help with president biden's coming inflation trap from his blow government spending. basically saying, this is an embarrassing message to the president, that china is saying if you lift trump's tariffs and trump's sanctions on china technology, that we can be a shock absorber to your inflation. what do you say to this? >> well, i think it's very clear, liz, that president biden's economic policies are taking this country in the wrong direction. we started to sound the alarm on the spending spigot that has been turned on months ago, and it's very clear that the policies are benefiting communist china over the american worker. i think the best weapon we have is to revitalize our economy, get to our economy going with those economic policies, not giving that hand up to a country like china which, obviously, has been very clear about their intentions in taking on america, taking on our intellectual property, taking over our debt.

so i think it is, you're right, it's a very embarrassing message to be sending, and the biden policies are clearly taking our country in the wrong direction. iowan wans are paying more than they have since my youngest was in diapers eight year ago. elizabeth: this was a threat for the democrats, university of michigan is saying americans have never been this unhappy about sticker shock since 1982. we're seeing that inflation is, you know, inflation is a regressive tax. it hits the poor and the working class, and china's saying, listen, you keep buying our cheap chinese goods, we keep buying your treasury paper, that way we help you finance your monster budget deficit that the federal reserve has been floating on its own overstretched balance sheet. i mean, the federal reserve balance sheet in 2008 was $208 billion, now it's at $10 trillion. >> right. we talk about the package we saw

passed included those enhanced unemployment benefits. iowa, obviously, those benefits go away tomorrow, so our employers are ready and waiting with those help wanted signs. we need to give our economy the shot in the arm that it needs to recover, not continuing to give a hand up to countries like china. nancy pelosi and the democrats in congress continue to talk about these huge price tags. that's only going to exacerbate the problem. we need to get people back to work so that the price of goods and services can stabilize in this country. clearly, we've seen that the biden administration's not listening to the heartland, those kitchen table conversations are clearly not resonating in those backroom conversations at the white house. elizabeth: but i want to get to what china's doing. so, you know, china -- let me back up. we've been reporting what china's been doing for decades with buying u.s. treasury -- >> right. elizabeth: the storyline is that they won't sell the debt because they don't want to hurt their own massive holdingsing.

they could stop buying, or they could revalue their yuan higher to make their own goods more expensive, and that would send sticker shock even higher in the u.s. for chinese goods sold here. so so they could export inflation into our country as well. so does fed chair jerome powell and the president realize they're throwing money at a problem that doesn't exist anymore? covid shutdowns are over. states opened up a long time ago, and chipotle and other companies are saying, listen, jobless benefits are keeping people out of the work force. 9 million job openings right now, jobs not filled yet. what do you say? final word. >> i say do it like we've done it in iowa. we've opened up. we are the number one state in terms of recovery from this pandemic, and it's for a reason. people are back to work, we've got shots in arms, and that's exactly what we needed to do, and that's exactly what this country needs to do, not give the upper hand to countries like

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huh-uh, this is about america's tax security. where do you come down? >> well, i think the timing is suspect, as you alluded to before the commercial break, when you have president biden talking about taxing the rich in order to pay for this infrastructure package and that corporates will have to pay their fair share, and then all of a sudden their irs tax leaks of the rich coming out right on the heels of this wildly inappropriately massive infrastructure package that came out of the house infrastructure committee just a few days ago. i find the timing of it suspect. the other thing is that there are administrations and federal agencies that have a long history of leaking information and targeting their political enemies. and the irs is not immune to this. it wasn't long ago that it was lois lerner, going after conservative groups. we saw in the fbi a few years ago it was lisa page and peter strzok that said they needed to stop trump. it has to stop, but it's one of the reasons that we really should be trying to make the irs

smaller, not larger. biden is adding tens of thousands of agents to the irs that have no accountability to the american people that their information would be protected. elizabeth: yeah. the lois lerner thing really stuck out because that was about, you know, conservative nonprofits being given a hard time to achieve nonprofit status, and it was sort of a suppression of free speech. you know, covering the irs for decades and testifying twice before congress about irs and tax reform, the sense that i got from congress is that we exist for the government, right? and the irs workers were telling -- were basically saying, yeah, that's the attitude they felt. they don't want to be dragged into politics. and mark cuban is saying propublica is not being honest about the story, that they were basically showing income taxes as a percentage of their overall wealth when wealth is not taxed. it's not taxed under the u.s. constitution the, only income. is so we're talking about paper wealth. paper wealth is fleeting.

just ask pets.com and the tech bubble, right, when that blew up. i mean, if elon musk is going to sell billions of dollars worth of tesla shares, that's going to slam investors. a lot of their wealth is paper that they have not sold yet. >> right. it shouldn't be easy to cheat the tax code. if we had a simpler, smaller, flatter tax, there wouldn't be an ability to cheat the irs, and this should spark a conversation for tax reform. it'll never happen in my lifetime probably as much as i would love it to, but there are ways that this can be done and be fair and equitable across the board -- elizabeth: a flat tax. >> right, a flat tax. that would be great. and it would be more equitable. people would feel that way, fewer deductions and then everyone's paying their fair share whether that's consumption or flat tax. either one is better than what we've got right now.

elizabeth: yeah, it's interesting. when the soviet union broke up, those satellite countries in eastern europe got the flat tax, we got the irs. kimberly strassel is disagreeing with what you're seeing, the piece of how the country is run. let's be clear about it. and having studied it since the '80s, it's quite a bureaucracy. i want to get to this though, the justice department inspector general is now probing the trump administration subpoenas to apple for information on house congressmen adam schiff and eric swalwell. we've reported on how the obama administration was wrong to go after the associated press, the new york times and their phone records. how is this different? >> well, this is wrong. they're both wrong, right? and democrats have more credibility on this issue. they're raging on twitter, but they'd have more credibility if they didn't abuse their own power to go after fox news and

the associated press. and you're right, it was obama's department of justice that went after journalists, right? i mean, that was wrong. this is wrong now, that was wrong then. and then here over on the other corner of the side of the road you've got adam schiff going nuts, and it was adam schiff that went after republican devin nuñes during the russia investigation. so they really have very little credibility on this issue. but this is wrong. spying on people is wrong. i think allowing or forcing third parties to hand over your information, that's also wrong. businesses shouldn't be forced to do that. there's a court of law, a process already in place in our judicial system. elizabeth: congresswoman nancy mace, thanks for joining us. it's good to see you. >> thank you, as always. elizabeth: same here. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. more e-mails surfacing showing hunter biden trying to cash in on his father's name, allegedly putting pressure on even sovereign wealth funds and foreign leaders to do business. kt mcfarland next.

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of sovereign wealth funds and also foreign government leaders from europe to the middle east. what do you say to this story? >> well, i think we now are having the second layer of the hunter biden scandal. you know, the fist layer was -- first layer was he got in touch with foreign leaders, not foreign leaders, but foreign countries saying wouldn't you like to meet my dad. now he's get in touch with foreign governor -- governments. that's china's main investment vehicle, and he's going to them and saying, you know, let's do business together, let's -- why don't you invest in my company knowing full well that from their perspective that's pay to play. that's a bribe. the countries he went to are countries which are used to paying bribes to have access to foreign leaders. and the idea that he was offering access to the vice president of the united states is pretty stunning. liz, i'm waiting for the next shoe to drop.

did hunter biden go to u.s. government officials, did he go to the u.s. ambassador to this country or that country, was he asking special favors of american government officials. i think that gets into a place, well, where it's going to be really difficult for the department of justice to ignore that. elizabeth: yeah. we hear what you're saying. john solomon, the reporter, is speaking out via e-mails. this is not a case of him leveraging his father's name to get a deal to be paid a million dollars a year when his father was overseeing you crane and hunter biden's famous -- ukraine. and hunter biden's trip aboard air force two to beijing s and apparently he didn't get enough business out of china, so he's trying to get a meeting with the chinese ambassador to the u.s. to do even more business. he's also corresponding with the uae ambassador to the u.s., the french ambassador to the u.n.,

leaders in italy. so you're right, this feels next level up. >> yeah. and here's the thing, i think there's three scandals here. one, what hunter biden was doing. he was basically selling the patrimony to of the united states to make a buck, and he was not just selling an introduction to dad and a photo opportunity, he was selling out the united states. but the second scandal to me is where's the department of justice? there are e-mail after e-mail after e-mail that are just accumulating to show that there was a lot of wrong doing. so where's the justice department? why aren't they investigating? and then, finally, where the heck is the media? they're covering it up. elizabeth: i mean, they went after general michael flynn over foreign lobbying, george papadopoulos, you know in we've got breaking news for you. russia's vladimir putin telling cbs that relations with the u.s. are at their worst level. your reaction to that. >> yeah, i think he's absolutely

right. but what putin's trying to do is he's trying to soften the battlefield before he meets with biden. he wants to act tough, scare biden a little bit because he's a bully. and vladimir putin will keep pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing until somebody stands up to him. he's pushed over the energy issues, he's pushed over ransomware, he's pushed over trying to create the international waterway of the black sea and turning it into a russian lake. biden's backed down, i'm not at all surprised putin's done this because he wants to put biden on his back heels so when they do meet in a couple of days, he's going to have the onus that's going to be on biden to make concessions to improve the relationship. that's not where it ought to be. elizabeth: interesting. yeah, well, we hear you. by the way, let me just get to my producer, it was nbc, is that right, producer? nbc? okay. nbc. kt mcfarland, thanks for joining us. coming up next, we've got a hot story for you.

the republican party getting stymied by democrats. the gop trying to mount a legislative counterattack to go after what happened with china's outbreak of coronavirus. diss it leak -- did it leak from the wuhan lab in do democrats really want to go into the midterms not investigating a pandemic that killed 600,000 americans and sickened millions? we have seen democrats doing commissions over smaller things. why not this? charlie hurt is next. ♪ ♪ >> what we knew about the origins of this virus, none of that has changed from the beginning. from the very beginning, from january of last year when i first sounded the alarm about this coronavirus, it was clear that the labs in wuhan were a much more likely source than that ridiculous food market the chinese communists always pointed to. ♪ ♪ what you need. how much money can liberty mutual save you? one! two! three! four! five!

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♪ elizabeth: back with us now, fox news contributor charlie hurt. so this week, charlie, we saw gop lawmakers trying to mount a counterattack, trying to get probes done at the congressional level into what happened in china with the coronavirus outbreak, but they've been stymied. the nih is also stonewalling because the paper trail appears to be there. a lot more money went into the wuhan lab than the $600,000 that people are a talking about. we're talking about potentially millions of dollars in subgrants through nonprofits like cohealth alliance. what -- like ecohealth alliance. what do you say to the stonewalling here? >> well, it's absolutely shocking, it's stunning the level of disregard, as you point out, pointed out in the last segment. the level of disregard that democrats in congress have about a diseases that killed 600,000 americans and millions around the globe, and we till do not know exactly -- we still do not know exactly where it came from,

the degree to which the chinese communist twoft was involved, we don't even know whether or not this was something that possibly was an accidental -- if, in fact, it was a leak from the lab, if it was an accidental leak or a purposeful leak. and i realize that may sound shocking to some people, but the truth is if they refuse to answer questions and if our government refuses to even how questions to be asked, then we're left with no answers. and if we're left with no answers, you kind of are to assume the worst. and in a situation like this, you know, you go back a year and a half ago when this first happened, you had clearly, you know, people like dr. fauci, you had the media, you had facebook in particular working overtime to help the chinese communist government cover up any sort of, any sort of evidence, any sort of questions about where this came from. and all that can do is sort of raise alarms for rational people

who don't know the answer to those important questions. elizabeth: they haven't found the intermediary host yet, they haven't found the original animal that had the virus. they haven't found it. liver more says it's plausible, the potential wuhan lab leak. dozens of scientists say that. investigate it. the w.h.o. director says investigate it. wisconsin republican senator ron johnson says the evidence has been out there for all to see and for the media to report on, but democrats didn't investigate for other a year. they're now -- over a year. they're now doing it. why? >> saturdayly, i think the real answer at the beginning was because democrats, from the beginning, democrats sought to take this pandemic and politicize it and use it as a weapon against one man, and that's donald trump. and they were not going to allow the chinese government, they weren't going to allow anybody else to take any blame for this, because they wanted to pin the entire thing on donald trump in an election year. and think about that.

that is just -- i mean, that's just stunning, that there are actually -- elizabeth: it is stunning. you know -- >> [inaudible conversations] elizabeth: -- we hear you loud and clear. the wuhan lab has thousands of viruses in it. the bat viruses, those bats do not exist in wuhan. they exist 800,000 miles away. the scientists in there wrote stories saying, yes, we were funded by the ni in doing a -- nih in doing a spike protein the virus. dr. fauci 2011, washington post op-ed, yes, make dangerous lab-created viruses in order to get vaccines. 2012, says the benefits outweigh the risks here in creating superviruses. this gain of function stuff. vaccine companies say we don't need it. to what are we doing sitting around waiting for the next pandemic to kill even more americans, sicken and kill people around the world? what are we doing? >> well, apparently.

obviously, you know, not only were they not asking the tough questions or the basic, simple questions that they should have been asking at the beginning, they weren't even allowing anybody else to ask those questions. literally facebook and google were silencing, they were disappearing from the internet anybody who asked any of these basic questions about that wuhan lab. you know, we had -- the washington times had a story in january of 2020 raising questions on the record from intelligent sources about that, the wuhan institute of virology. and facebook completely erased it. "usa today" and washington post wrote fact checks in order to debunk the story that has, of course, proven to be absolutely 100% accurate. so there's a massive cover-up, and it's entirely being guided by politics and not science or the welfare of people. elizabeth: got it. charlie hurt, good to see you. come back soon. >> great to see you. elizabeth: okay.

next up, that parent in virginia, her talk to a local school board is going viral. she survived china's communism. she gave a stark warning about what public schools are teaching. kristin tate next. >> i just want to let american people know that what's going on in our school and in our country is really a replay of the cultural revolution in china. and i want people to see there is similarities, and the similarities are terrifying. they use the same ideologies, same methodologies, even the same vocabulary and with the same goal. the ideology is cultural marxism, and we were divided into groups as oppressor and oppressed. and here we use race. there they used class. ♪♪

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school board, her comments went viral. she's saying chinese-americans are alarmed as she is about what u.s. public schools are now teaching about critical race theory and cultural marxism. similar to what they heard as young children in the 60s how communism split china and ruin the country. >> that is right, what this mother said is so important and we should listen to her, those who lived under cultural revolution understand what these in doctrine efforts like article race theory can do to a country and its citizens. immigrants like this mother have lived under. the and they understand that cultures are broken down and destroyed bit by bit, this happens gradually. after population still realized what is going on until it's too late. critical race theory in particular is so destructive not only our students but our society, we are being taught to hate each other for emotional

reasons based on race, not based on individual action, we all need to start fighting against it and it starts at the state legislature in certain states like arkansas have already started that process of actually banning rtm the classroom. we need to see more of that in. elizabeth: martin luther king and family members of martin luther king a bit on the show they keep saying it's about the character not the color of a person's skin and we have black mothers in florida saying we don't want that your teaching children how to separate from other children based on skin color and they feel like it's really toxic, racism is terrible, we are never going to legislator litigate out of existence stupidity and ignorance like racism but u.s. is the best system in the world to catch the bad guy. i think smart people, they don't divide themselves by race or color or gender, the fools do that. that is the issue, let's listen to this mother, let's listen to what she told the school board.

>> i've been very alarmed by what is going on in our school you are now teaching children to the social justice warriors in our country in our history. growing up in china, and they are communist regime using the same critical theory to divide people. the only difference they use class instead of race, during the cultural revolution eyewitness students and teachers turn against each other and change school names to be politically correct. we were taught to the announcer heritage, destroy anything that is not communist. statues, books and everything else we are encouraged to report just like the students ambassador program in the reporting system. this is indeed american version of the chinese cultural revolution. the critical race theory has its roots in cultural marxism that should have no place in our

schools. elizabeth: what do you say kristen? >> absolutely chilling words, i hope people will heed her warning, critical race theory is not about fighting against racism, we should all fight racism where it is critical race theory is about political indoctrination and demoralizing because they define moral value based on one skin color parents need to fight back in state legislatures need to fight back and we all need to realize what is actually happening in our classrooms so we can push back against this horrible divisive etiology. elizabeth: she also pointed out wiping a public statue to an comfortable historic events and figures, we need to remember our history so we don't do it again. >> of course we need to remember in teacher history the good and the bad, i hope the parents will start taking the kids education back into their own hands it's up to parents in homes to teach their children about what's going on in the world and the dangers of communism, right now

that's where a lot of our public classrooms are headed. elizabeth: stay on the story with you, we will have you back soon, have a good weekend. thank you for joining us, i'm elizabeth macdonald you been watching "the evening edit", that doesn't for us we hope you have a good weekend join us again monday night. ♪ ♪ ♪. larry: hello everyone welcome to "kudlow" i am larry kudlow. a few weeks ago during israel hamas is bull up bombing battles we talked about how the democratic party used to be israel's greatest offenders has turned against israel, even formally as supporters like chuck schumer were basically silent in the face of israeli criticism by the like so far left terrorist sympathizers,