to be considered fully vaccinated and to gain entry for the performance. gerry: broadway back later in the year, i think. lydia hu, thanks very much. that does it for us tonight on "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" is coming up right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: a new controversy, president joe biden ordered a freeze on a shipment of roughly $100 million in military aid to ukraine right before his meeting with russian president vladimir putin. president biden had already green lighted russia's nord stream 2 pipeline into germany, so here's the debate, what else did russia get? joining us tonight, kt fcc marland, charlie hurt, sean duffy and tom homan.

the fallout from biden's yaw crane decision. plus, did president biden put a bull's eye on 16 valuable infrastructure targets with his off-limits list for russia? we've got that debate. and we have 14 gop lawmakers led by former white house physician and congressman ronnie jackson sticking to their position that president biden must immediately undergo cognitive tests to assess his mental fitness, citing his medical history of aneurysms and growing forgetfulness. democrats fiercely battling back against that. this new debate, d.c. insiders say you can expect a lot of top spin from democrats now racing to try to rebrand everything they do from now until the midterms as helping the middle class. but are they? historically, the party in power faces major midterm losses. the debate over the push by democrats now racing to ram

through their agenda in order to win no matter if it is good or bad for the country. inflation hitting the highest it's been since 1979. and democrats in d.c. now facing new pushback from democrats and from late night comics and hosts to ordinary americans over what they say is the democrats' over the top, radical, overly woke, politically correct agenda and their bullying that at its core what they're doing is intolerant. also we're breaking down a new report that quotes dr. fauci describing a secret meeting in early 2020 with sign it wases talking about -- scientists talking about where did the covid-19 virus come from. did this secret teleconference phone call set the false narrative to shut down the possibility that it may have leaked from the wuhan lab in china? plus even more controversy involving hunter biden. columnist charlie hurt is asking what does hunter biden have to do to be a scandal in d.c. and

the media. and the growing evidence that criminal mexican cartels are the ones who are really in control of the border. 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. the dow, the s&p 500, the nasdaq finishing down sharply today. inflation fears rattling the markets. st. louis fed president james bullard warning rate hikes could come sooner in 2022. let's begin with former deputy national security adviser kt kt mcfarland back with us, author of "revolution: trump, washington and we the people." kt, the breaking news that the biden administration froze the military aid package for ukraine valued at as much as $100 million before the meeting with vladimir putin, what's your read on this? >> i find this really troubling,

very troubling. it wasn't just the amount of the aid package,s it was what was in the aid package, and that was equipment that the ukrainians could use to defend themselves. lethal force defend themselves, stuff that we've been delivering to them for the last four or five years. here's what happens, if i leak this stuff altogether, so if president biden allowed the pipeline, the in order stream gas pipeline to go -- in order stream pipeline to go to germany, political leverage over the german economy, okay? number one. number two, the russian forces are at the ukraine border, there's still 100,000 of them. and ukraine is now in a very dangerous position especially because president biden took american warships and skedaddled out of the black sea the minute president putin threatened him. and then add to that the hacking, the hack attacks and ransomware attacks, and now that you find out the biden administration was pulling back

aid to, supposedly, the country we're supporting, ukraine x. while those men sat down in geneva, while putin and biden sat down at their summit meeting, putin had the largest military exercise russia has had since the cold war. russia since warships and bombers right up to the territorial waters of hawaii. so all those things together, i mean, i can't figure it out. i guess it's just complete conciliation to whatever the russians want to do and maybe in hopes that they think the russians are going to give them a fair deal. vladimir putin's a bully, and every time you give in to him, he takes more. elizabeth: so you're right, so what is the end game here? what's the strategy on the part of the biden administration? >> well, i think you saw it on display at the press conference where president biden said, well, we've given him this list, he can't possibly do the critical -- hacking into these 16 areas of critical infrastructure because with, you know, we're going to respond. and then what the response was

was left blank. and when he was asked a follow-up question, he said, well, you know, if russia does, russia's going to have diminished respect in the international community. russia doesn't care about that. and at the same time, president biden has now left open ransomware and russian hacking attacks on industries 17, 18, 19, 20 on up. so i think the end game, i don't know, i guess it's complete capitulation in hopes that a maybe, somehow they get a good deal with russia? it's absolutely the wrong approach to take with the russians as we have learned decade after decade after decade. elizabeth: so national security experts, remies say president biden -- republicans saw president biden put a bull's eye on those infrastructure entities when he said they're off limits to russian cyber attacks. does that really give them a green light to target that, and by the way, senator jim lankford, ted cruz, lisa stefanik saying everything is off limits in america.

should that have been the message? >> absolutely. and, i mean, one of the things i found so upsetting when i joined the trump administration at the beginning of the trump administration, i got my briefingsing, and i said, you know, what's our cyber capability. and it was a lot of talk about our defensive capability. not defending the private sector or the civilian economy, it was just defending the u.s. government and the defense industry. and i said, okay, what's our offensive cyber capability? in other words, how do we deter our adversaries from launching cyber attacks against us? and the attitude left over from the obama administration, which i think is now back in the biden administration, is, well, we don't want to be provocative. so, you know, we really don't -- we wanted to back off, and we think if we're the slightest bit provocative, they're going to take advantage of us when, in fact, the opposite is true. you know, putin has shown time and time again if you don't stop him, he keeps going. i would not be at all surprised

if we had these cyber hacking attacks against industries 17 on up and with the kind of open invitation to vladimir putin to say don't you dare touch number 1-16, well, what if he calls biden's bluff? what if he does? then what do we do in response? we're in a very bad position. and all the people who have commented on this absolutely right. the entire american economy, the entire american society should be off limits to cyber attack. elizabeth: all right. kt mcfarland, it's good to see you. thanks for your insights there. let's take on this next topic with texas congressman pat fallon. okay, so there was a letter that was sent along with congressman ronny jackson, former white house physician, to president biden on thursday that called on him to prove his mental fitness with a cognitive test. the letter was also sent to dr. anthony fauci. what do you make of this? is this a real thing?

>> liz, thanks for having me on. you know, it's not just an isolated incident with joe biden. this is a repeated pattern of behavior. he's making major gaffes on the world stage. now, he is the oldest president we've had, he's 78, but that's not the reason why we wrote the letter. the genesis of the letter was these gaffes. confusing syria and libya three different times prompting boris johnson to reintroduce the south african president which he had done three times. we need somebody who's at the apex of their mental acuity. elizabeth: he'sed had two aneurysms. vladimir putin said he had the grasp on details, that he never missed any details. vladimir putin thinks he was on his game. what do you say to that? >> i had a hard time hearing

you, but think you said putin thought biden was on his game? is that right? elizabeth: that is right. >> well, putin, he's shifty, and he's cunning, and everything he does has a purpose. so he might be just trying to work around and maybe manipulating biden into thinking that he's his friend and helping him out politically. but the fact of the matter is that all of us heard some of the things that he was saying during the those summits, the g7 summit and then meeting with putin. and i heard some of it, i couldn't believe what i was hearing. it was gibberish, it was mush. you can only hide this so long, and all we're asking is take a test. if you pass it, then we'll move on. i didn't agree with barack obama. i didn't agree withprint, but i never quelled their mental -- questioned their mental ability. elizabeth: the white house is saying they're going to release medical check-up results at the end of the year. they are reluctant to talk about the president's mental acuity. let's listen toman ronny

jackson. take a listen to this. >> after this most recent embarrassing performance overseas, i thought it was time to come out. i've been saying this for a year and a half, sean. i took care of three presidents over 15 years in the white house including being a physician to the president for both barack obama and donald j. trump. and, you know, i know what the rigors of this job are physically and cognitively. it's demanding. and after this performance, and we've been seeing this for a year and a half now. i've been saying that joe biden is not, he's not physically or cognitively fit to be our president right now, and i just think he's not inspiring confidence in the american people. elizabeth: now we've got the media going after ronny jackson for his prior problems and scandals. what do you say to that? shoot the messenger, looks like. >> well, liz, ronny jackson is not only an add ail america -- admiral, but he's a medical doctor. he's one of the most talented folks that we have not only in congress, but that has ever served and worn the uniform. so what ronny jackson is saying i'd have to echo right now

because the proof is in the pudding. all, again, we're asking for is to have joe biden take this mental acuity test. i represent 675,000 americans as a united states congressman. joe biden represents 330 million americans and an extra 2-300 billion people on the planet as the leader of the free world. this is the most important job in the world, and this is something that's too important to continue to go on with all these lingering questions. elizabeth elizabeth so what is, so the critics who say this is just a political attack, what is the issue that bothers you the most when it comes to what you think is the problems with the president's cognition and his acuity? what is one thing that really stands out? what one thing really stands out? >> really it's the pattern of continual gaffes. and i'll tell you very honestly and very candidly, that there's a member of congress -- i haven't asked his permission to use his name, it's a republican

member of congress -- that privately told me he's known joe biden for decades, and he's not the same person. he had seen him about a month ago, and he said, pat, it's frightening, it's not the same person. so that gave me pause. but then it's -- the whole world is seeing this. and joe biden, just get the test and then we can move on. this won't be an issue. it's funny how they're reluctant to do it. i think that's very telling. elizabeth: interesting. okay, congressman, come back soon. >> thanks, liz. god bless. elizabeth: sure, same to you. washington insiders say you can expect democrats from now until next year in the midterms to try and rebrand everything they do as helping the middle class as they fear major losses. that is historically, has been the case. but the biden administration's huge government spending blowout is being talked about as being misguided. inflation is hitting the highest it's been since 1979.

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they need to be ready for anything. i hope you're ready. 'cause we are. ♪ elizabeth: joining us now from house ways and means, jason smith. it's great to have you back on, congressman. how do all of these summits and meetingses overseas help the middle class? what policies are we seeing in the first six months that help american workers? we don't really see anything on the trade front. they're keeping trump's trade policies in place. nothing beyond really more jobless benefits and, you know, fight for $15 minimum wage. so what are, what is in here for the middle class? >> liz, i'll just tell you right now that the biden administration, what their focus has been is policies that harm the working class and the middle class. whether testing having the border completely open, having more people cross the southern

border since january 20th, the entire population of kansas city, missouri. by allowing illegals to cross the border, they are lowering wages for all americans. that is absolutely unacceptable. whether it's raising taxes on all americans, that's unacceptable. and this wasteful spending that they've done, $7.5 trillion that biden has either proposed or enacted in his first 100 days in office? that has caused inflation to go through the roof, liz, and that is making working class americans having to pay more to put food on their table, gas in their cars and clothe on their backs. elizabeth: yeah. we have the st. louis fed president james bullard today shocking the market saying he sees inflation really ramping up. the philly fed index says it's trending to be the worst since 1979. and, congressman, we have this new report from harvard university, brown university and the gates foundation saying that lockdowns destroyed the middle

class, that they had a far worse effect on working class americans than high-wage americans. so are we going to see democrats try to rebrand everything they do from here on into the midtermses as helping the middle class? the global minimum tax, vaccine sharing with other countries, helping the middle class? do you think what i mean? are you expecting that? >> well, i'll tell you, i think the democrats will do anything that they can to try the win the midterm election, but the middle class and the working class sees right through their rhetoric and their lies. i mean, it's interesting that they have to have a study to say that, in fact, the lockdowns hurt the middle class. we have been saying it all along, and we just said follow the science. if we just followed the leadership of what governor desantis did and governor kristi noem did, they didn't do the lockdowns, they opened up and allowed their economies to thrive. they had the lowest unemployment in the nation in their states, and it was quite successful.

so their conservative policies have worked. and the democrats are just, just pulling straws right now, and they can try the say that they're for the working class. they're for the elite, they clearly don't understand what it's like in middle class america. elizabeth: yeah. i mean, the lockdowns were disastrous economically. that's what history is going to show, what the fallacy was, this ad hoc, on the fly policies to let local bureaucrats shut down, unelected bureaucrats shut down and control local economies. we understand what the governors are doing, we're talking about people below them. the other thing too that's really interesting is thousand nancy pelosi wants a new wealth committee to study wealth inequality, and she's poised to have jim hines to run it, he has a $200,000 house in greenwich,

connecticut. shouldn't they figure out how to create prosperity? >> it's the democrats' policy. they think government can fix everything. conservatives know that government's typically the problem. and that -- it's so ridiculous that you have a multimillionaire speaker of the house from san francisco, and now she's appointed the chair of a new quality committee that is a former executive at goldman sachs, and the other members are progressive socialists? these folks need to understand that the way that you increase wages, the way that you increase employment is by getting government out of the way, lowering taxes, not raising taxes. we see it firsthand. what they're proposing right now, they're proposing to raise taxes on low income, middle income, all income -- elizabeth: and stay on that. stay on that for a second, hang on. because bernie sanders now wants a $6 trillion new spending plan. $6 trillion more in spending

that they want to try and ram through via budget reconciliation with only democrat votes, no republican votes in the senate. do you think they're going to pull that off? >> i sure hope not, liz. that $6 trillion package, you talk about what would happen with $6 trillion more with inflation? we just i saw this week record inflation since 1979. they spend another $6 trillion, that's a tax on every working class american, and that means it's going to cost more to put food on the table, clothes on their backs and gas in their cars. unacceptable. i hope they can't pass it. elizabeth: congressman jason smith, thank you so much for joining us. we really appreciate it. still ahead, we've got a hot story for you. congressman devin nuñes is here to help break down a new report that says dr. fauci described a secret meeting, a teleconference phone call in early 2020 with scientists about the origins of the covid-19 virus. did this secret phone call help

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♪ elizabeth: joining us now, fox news contributor charlie hurt. he's a great writer tooment charlie, okay, there's more allegations, more reports that hunter biden allegedly was banned, kicked out of a legendary hot spot because of drug use or because he allegedly punched a hole in the wall there. also allegedly in other texts used racist language, racist slurs against asians. you wrote an op-ed in the washington times. you asked what does hunter biden have to do to become a scandal around here in d.c.? what's your take on all of this? >> it's truly incredible, liz. i mean, any one of these things was committed by any regular child or relative of a politician, the politician would be through. they would be done. but this guy just, he keeps -- the greatest hits keep coming, and nothing happens to him. and it's not like it's just that he's got a problem smoking crack

or he just has a problem, you know, sleeping with his dead brother's widow or denying paternity of his son, all of which are pretty bad things, but it's also official business. you know, when a guy like hunter biden shakes down foreign governments, when he, you know, makes millions of dollars influence-peddling at the highest levels to of the government when his father is vice president of the united states, these are -- those are serious crimes. and yet the media covers for him all the time. it's absolutely astonishing. you know, i wouldn't expect to see this level of, you know, the sort of treatment that we saw of president trump and his family to be, you know, that level of scrutiny against the biden family, but this is beyond the pale. elizabeth: you know, the trap door to get out of this conversation by the media

purportedly has been the laptop not verifiably hunter biden's. daily mail got forensic experts to study the laptop and independent forensic experts and they said, yeah, these are real. these are the real thing. and when you read the stream of consciousness kind of texting, you know, fights with his father, how his -- the language in each of the texts, charlie, you can see hunter biden's personality is the same in all of the text messages. they sure sound real, they feel real. and, you know, the thing the trump family was accused of using their positions in government to cash in, right in but they had had their own business prior, and the president never took a paycheck in the white house. you know, we heard about the trump hotel and his properties benefiting, we get that. but where are the investigations, where's the hair on fire outrage moment from the democrats when you have hunter biden using secret service on

400 trips on air force 2 going to our adversaries in china and russia to do business? >> absolutely. elizabeth: he's absolutely target thed then, you know, for spying. >> yeah. whatever you think of donald trump, the fact remains that the trump family made lots and lots of money, and then they gave up money to go into politics. the biden family is the exact opposite. they went into politics, they've spent their life in politics, and they've made a lot of money in politic or perhaps off of politics in the case of hunter biden. but going back to the laptop, liz, and i think this is so important, that is the biggest lie. the idea that the media is claiming that they can't verify the contents of that laptop. the dirty secret that so many people in the media don't want to tell you is this: that, you know, hunter biden has been around for a long time. a lot of people in media have personal relationships with hunter biden. they know for a fact that all

that stuff is real because their own e-mails and texts are on that laptop. that's how they all know firsthand that this stuff is for real. that has nothing to do with it. the reason they float that canard is because they don't want to cover it because they don't want to hurt hunter biden, and they -- but the real thing they don't want to do is they don't want to hurt joe biden. it's all a big lie. all the stuff on the laptop is real. they know it, they just don't want to cover it. elizabeth: let me just recap what you just said. d.c. insiders, people in washington, and are row saying people -- are you saying people also in the media know that the hunter laptop e-mails and text messages are real because their own e-mails and text messages are showing up on the laptop? >> absolutely. elizabeth: is that what you're saying? >> absolutely. there is no doubt. and listen to hunter biden himself. even he doesn't deny that the material on the laptop is real.

what he says is i don't know, you know, i don't know how they got it, i don't know where it came from. he doesn't deny that all of it's true even with, you know, this latest thing that came out earlier this week about the racist language to his lawyer and to his -- was that his cousin? elizabeth: his cousin. >> not a peep. nobody is trying to claim that he never said that because he did say it. elizabeth: okay. charlie hurt, it's great to see you. great writer. love reading your stuff. >> thank you. elizabeth: okay. congressman devin nuñes is with us next to break down the latest wuhan lab leak bombshell. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ when i was young ♪ no-no-no-no-no please please no. ♪ i never needed anyone. ♪

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♪ elizabeth: joining me now, house intelligence ranking member, he is congressman devin nuñes. it's great to see you, sir. okay, hhs, the nih, democrats still stonewalling republicans for information about where did

this wuhan coronavirus come from. was it a lab leak. where is the outrage? where is the hair on fire outrage from democrats and dr. fauci over a pandemic that's killed 600,000 americans and sickened millions? isn't it kind of weird there's not more outrage about this possibility of a lab leak? >> well, look, they have a lot of serious issues they'd have to answer to the american people. in fact, we put a bipartisan committee together with republicans and democrats in the house were supposed to be working together. i heard next week that i'm going to be testifying before this committee, but the democrats are refusing to testify. so house republicans on the intelligence committee put out the most comprehensive report three weeks ago. we went back and looked at all the circumstantial evidence. it all points to a leak from the lab, and the only evidence we have actually comes from the an animal that went through a human is from the chinese communist party. dr. fauci and the democrats.

and don't forget, you had nancy pelosi dancing around in chinatown telling everybody to come out and that donald trump, republicans are all racist against asians. you still see that storyline today. so it doesn't really fit with their narrative. they can't really do anything about it, and they don't really give a damn that 600,000 people died. they use this to advance the most liberal agenda in history, and borrowing, what are we up to, i think jason smith said we've spent over $7 trillion in the last year and a half? elizabeth: yeah. we hear you. rumors that the u.s. has got now a top china official, a vice minister of state securities, that is giving the u.s. information about the wuhan lab, that it may have been a leak. we're tracking that story. i want to get to this story. "usa today" reporting about a secret, pivot alltel conference -- pivotal teleconference phone call with

dr. fauci, the day before scientist christian anderson e-mailed dr. fauci says this looks like it was engineered in a laboratory. they have a phone call. dr. fauci says, yeah, we discussed that possibility on a phone call. i still believe that it came from an animal and it didn't come from a lab. three days later that same scientist, christian anderson, says this is conspiracy theories, it's tinfoil hat stuff that there was a lab leak. so it looks like this phone call set the stage for the narrative that now prevails in the media that msnbc and cnn still won't challenge, that this could have been a lab leak. this is going of function. this thing exploded more than any other virus we've ever seen in the world and rocketed around the globe like we've never seen before. what is -- >> well, look, i would just add this -- because they wanted to go with this racist narrative, the real conspiracy theory here is that this came from an animal of some kind. and not, you know, at the time

if you were truly following the science, remember, the left and the democrats and fauci always want to follow the science? well, if you're following the science at the time, what the hell did you though to say that was a conspiracy theory? what was your evidence that the lab are was a conspiracy theory, and what evidence did you have other than the chinese communist party? look, i just saw that the chinese foreign ministry is continuing to go with out there and call this a conspiracy theory. just here in the last 24 hours. you continue to have this played down. we just heard another report that came out this week was a scientist who came out and said, and admitted that she didn't want to be called a conspiracy theorist, that's why she was afraid to bring this up to a fai and the u.s. government officials because you would be destroyed by the fake news media in this country that the democrats control 95% of. elizabeth: yeah, the bottom line is why did the chinese military suddenly seize control of the wuhan lab right after the

outbreak? i mean, engineered or not, whatever it was, why not just say, yeah, it might have leaked, dr. fauci? what's your problem with that theory? congressman, what's your final word on that? >> no, i think that's right. at the time going back to the very beginning if people were actually following the science and doing their job, probably the most likely -- if you had some information other than the chinese telling you, then you should reveal it. what is it? where's it at? and the thing is, they don't have it. it's like we've all been saying from the very beginning, i actually don't believe -- senator cotton, myself, many others have said this over time -- i don't believe the chinese actually released this on purpose, but i do believe that this research was going on in that lab. i think the u.s. government was actually paying for part of this research, and it's been a massive cover-up because, obviously, the chinese don't want people to know they were doing this type of work. a few and others don't want us -- fauci and others don't want us to know we're doing this

kind of work with u.s. dollars. so these are the questions that remain to be answered for the american people. elizabeth: congressman nunez, thanks for joining us. up next, democrats in washington facing pushback from the late night comics and hosts to ordinary americans. sick of democrat bullying and intolerance, trying to ram through their agenda because they fear midterm losses when maybe america doesn't want the agenda. former congressman sean duffy joins us next. >> the way we're going with inflation right now, we're going to see the worst since world war ii. groceries are up over 21%, gas prices are up, for me, more than a dollar, lumber is up 381% make the cost after all houses within the last year go up by 30%. as this starts to hurt the american people in the wallets, it's going to be troublesome for the administration and especially for democrats in the

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majority in the senate, a slim majority in the house, but they're going to take that opportunity, if they can open the borders, get more people in that'll never be deported, if they can remake the election system, they know if they do those progressive things, republicans won't be able to roll those policies off the legislative books. and so when you have aoc, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, they're willing to sacrifice more moderate members. they're going to throw them off the ship, right? they don't care. they're still going to have power, they're still going to win. and these more moderate members are going to lose, and, yes, they'll lose the majority, but they'll have remade the american landscape with this two years and slim mitter that's not a mandate. -- majority that's to not a mandate. elizabeth: all they've got to do is lose six seats in the house. you see these wish lists wrapped in these pandemic measures that have nothing to do with the pandemic or infrastructure. and then you have parents saying

what are you doing to our children, public schools, with what you're teaching. let's listen to ty smith, a radio host in illinois. he's an african-american slamming critical race theory. watch this. >> no mom, no dad in the house. worked my way through college. you're going to tell me somebody kept me from doing that? elizabeth: he's got two medical degrees. he says growing up his family never talked about race or color. what are you doing turning around what martin luther king said? is it's about your character. it's about your soul, not the color of your skin. now we've got teachers shoving this poisonous ideology at students where the children don't understand what they're talking about. i don't think children are racist. what are they talking about? >> yeah. of so i think this is one of the most unifying things between, you know, liberals, democrats, republicans, conservatives, parents of all stripes. listen, i don't want you to teach my first grader because they're white, they're a white supremacist and they're racist

or because my african-american child so pressed. all -- is oppressed. all parents see this for what it is, and they're joining together to push back. but you have this leftist culture you have all of these young teachers that are being wokefied in teacher colleges across america coming into schools, pushing this agenda. but the parents and school boards should rule, and we should push back and be able to have an exe for our children that's -- education for our children that's honest, true and not racist. elizabeth: it's ideological insanity. sean hannity, love having you on. come back on, good to see you. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ t eventually, with spring comes rebirth. everything begins anew. and many of us realize a fundamental human need to connect with other like-minded people.

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>> never has it been a scene like what's happening at the border and the death that's being caused this isn't just border. this is death, and criminals pouring into our country. dagen: that was former president donald trump. joining us now former acting i.c.e. director tom homan. tom it's great to have you back on. let's talk about what the president was just talking about. the bodies of two dead migrants discovered within a 24 hour period in new mexico near the border. texas border patrol finds almost three dozen illegal immigrants packed in a u-haul, temperatures

above 100 degrees people are dying. we, hear and tell us if we're wrong, border officials say yes the mexican cartels control the border and they have sealed the northern border with mexico and no one goes through without their permission. is that true? >> yes, it is spot on. the criminal cartels control the border. they decide who crosses, when they cross, when they cross, and not only do they dictate the human smugglers they dictate the human traffickers, the de mail traffickers, child traffickers, the narcotics they manage the whole border and who goes where and when they go and how much they got to pay so the cartels are making billions of dollars controlling that border right now. dagen: does the president know that this , does kamala harris know this , does the homeland security secretary know this? >> of course they do, because we had a surge in 1415 and mayorkas was the deptula vice

president, i was very much involved with addressing that surge and we stopped that surge because we built deterrence facilities, we had a system of consequence, we detained people, made them see a judge, 90% loss, put them on an airplane, sent them home and numbers went down and they are doing the complete opposite, they are being released without court dates, not seeing a judge and i.c.e. can't remove non-criminal illegal aliens anymore, they are no longer a priority. they are doing the complete opposite of what they know will stop this surge. liz: so the mexican criminal cartels are the main beneficiar ies making billions of dollars over president biden's open border policies. we're seeing looking at the number, the valuations on a level of walmart, what they are making off of human and drug smuggling, and we're hearing that basically, when a human smuggler deals with an illegal immigrant, they look at them like a contraband unit, like a commodity and a coyote will just

say to the illegal immigrant, okay you're dead in the desert so what but they aren't going to leave behind a bag of drugs that's more important to them. is that true? >> sadly, absolutely true, liz, and that's why i'm so passionate about this. i've put a lot of alien smuggler s in prison during my career. my only regret i didn't put them all in prison because i've seen what animals they are. i've seen dead children on the border. i've seen women that were raped i've seen a 12-year-old little girl raped several times by the cartels. i've seen devastation. i've seen death my entire career that's why i take this so personal. it's because if people saw, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, president biden, if they saw what i saw in my 34 year career, they would want to stop this too because people are suffering, people are dying, and the only ones benefiting from the criminal cartels, the same cartels that are murdered border patrol agents and i.c.e. agents they are the only ones winning at this time. the united states is losing. liz: so it's bureaucratic,

institutional inertia, people have been in their seats in power since nixon administration , the reagan administration, is that it? >> yes, you got it. i couldn't have said it better myself. these are a punch of politicians more concerned about surviving their next election and right now, it's all about satisfying the progressive left, with open borders. open borders is more important to them than saving lives. open borders have more important to them than the fentanyl and opioids from across the border right now are killing thousands. drug crossings at an all-time high. death on the border, all-time high. criminal cartels making all-time high money. people are suffering, and we just noticed another story that i was involved with 19 dead migrants in the back of the tractor trailer. what a terrible way to die. more people are going to die. i said six months ago if joe biden became president, we lose the border and more people will die. securing the border saves lives. liz: all right, tom homan, thanks for your service to our

country and coming on the show. good to see you come back again soon, okay? okay i'm elizabeth macdonald you've been watching the evening edit on fox business that does it for us. thank you so much for watching we hope you have a good weekend join us again monday night. larry: hello, everyone, well o welcome back to kudlow. i'm larry kudlow. i can think of many things of president biden's comings and going and doing and not doing it was not his greatest week. back in 1977 remember this , there was a grateful dead put out an album called "what a long , strange trip its been" i kind of like that a lot. i'm not really a dead head but i like that a lot or then there's kim strassel's column today

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