to have you with us. thanks for joining us. >> thanks. brian: well, that's going to do it for us on "fox business tonight." "the evening edit," you don't want to miss it, starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ elizabeth: we begin with a potentially damaging attack that could affect the midterms. there's a growing backlash against house speaker nancy pelosi and house democrats for stonewalling probes into what ignited the covid-19 pandemic that killed 600,000 americans. and we have a new bombshell revelation.e despite dr. anthony fauci's repeated denials, government documents show way back in 2002 that dr. fauci's bosses at the nih did, in fact, use taxpayer money t to fund dangers gain of function research -- dangerous

gain of function research and help pay for a patent on that before the sars outbreak in asia. joining us tonight, michael waltz, dr. brett giroir, claudia tenney, kristin tate, ron vitiello, deneen borelli and texas congressman tony gonzalez. dr. fauci again doubles down claiming attacks on him areat attacks on science. we've got even more in how the embodiment of science quickly flip-flops in realtime, undercutting his new excuse that it's about the science evolving x. this debate, is dr. fauci more outraged about hits to his reputation than finding out what triggerrerred the pandemic to begin with? where is dr. fauci's hair on fire outrage about a potential lab leak that u.s. intelligence is now investigating? if also a critical week on capitol hill for the biden agenda, but democratic in-fighting putting that agenda inig jeopardy. and we will break down a new

report detailing how anonymous far-left donors are giving millions of dollars in dark money donations to get the senate rules changed in order to get a big blowout in government spending. and the new revelations that another nonprofit run by embattled black lives matter cofounder patrisse cullors, did not disclose very large donations. this as at least ten original blm chapters, they want to know when it comes to the money who pocketed it. and the media's fact-free attacks, trying to slam the new push by texas. texas, the governor wants to build its own border wall. texas has the biggest gap in border security. nearly half of all illegal crossings happen there. and the new push now by both democrats and republicans, they want answers. why hasn't vice president kamala harris visited the border? and there's new pressure on the president to oust the vice president as his border czar. thanks for joining us.

i'm elizabeth macdonald. "thehe evening edit" starts rigt now. ♪rt ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we've got the dow, the s&p and the nasdaq epping near session -- ending near session highs. there was a broad rally on wall street shaking off inflation fears, but we have got this new story, a damaging attack that could affect the midterms. house minority whip steve usscalise accusing house speaker nancy pelosi with stonewalling the origins of covid-19. and now a new big push underway, the house gop conference led by kevinar mccarthy planning a potential full scale legislative blitz, an investigation into what started this pandemic that has left more than 600,000 americans dead. let's welcome florida congressman michael waltz back to thehe show. it's great to have you on. can you tell us what legislation is in the works? >> yeah.

well, i'm the ranking republican on thehe research and technology commission, and the research ask technology committee, excuse me, mand we pushed and are pushing for the office of science and technology inn the white house o come and explain to us why gain of function research which, you know, as you know which is basically studying a virus but putting it on steroids to see how it spreads, why was that turned back on in the very early days of the trump administration in 2017 after it had been paused because it was so controversial by the obama administration? and what was dr. fauci's role in having that turned back on? look, i think we've seen now that all of the interests were aligned here. the proponents in the bureaucracy here in the united states in thef scientific community in gain of function

research, they hadad no interest in the lab leak theory because it would have kind of been like chernobyl was for nuclear scientists if that had come to the fore. the mainstream media had no interest in that theory because they wanted to paint the fopposite narrative of anything president trump said, right? and, ofhe course, the chinese communist party had no interest in that getting out, so they had ta massive global propaganda campaign, and we are going to get to the bottom of unpacking all of that. the american people -- elizabeth: okay. >> -- and the world need to understand how this happened. and, here's the big thing, we can't prevent the next one from happening until we understand -- elizabeth: right. >> -- how this one happened. the last three have come from i inchina. never again -- elizabeth: i hear you. okay. let's get to this. right, okay, we hear you. the thing is that they were doing, funding gain of function research when we didn't have america's defenses ready for pandemic. we've got now, we've got the democrats pushing on vote

reform, right in. >> right. elizabeth: we've got the democrats pushing on infrastructure. the republicans are taking a different tack. they're saying, basically you guys are saying, hey, we can't go through this again. it demolished small business, the economy and killed 600,000 people. jake sullivan says the biden administration is pursuing ways to put international pressure if on china. what do you say to that? >> i think that's a lot of happy talk, frankly. you know, we're hearing that talk. we need to see them walk the walk. what are they actually doing? are they sanctioning chinese officials that were involved with the cover-up? are they cutting off any future funding to wuhan? that's another question we have of the white house. what is the policy going forward as it pertains to gain of function? what are the other labs around the world? we know of two in the united states, and i'm comfortable with their level of security. but the state department knew

and wrote cables to the effect that the security was very lax in wuhan. so what is the white house's position going forward in terms of that funding -- elizabeth: yeah, and why are we even -- why -- >> -- rather than talking. elizabeth: right.izwh why are we allowing dangerous gain of function research in a chinese t lab that's known for making errors and mistakes? that's really, you know, it's an unsafe lab. what were we doing to begin with? let's watch steve scalise. watch this. [applause] >> -- we will hold china accountable.e. they are covering for china right now. it's a soviet-style cover-up. we're going to keep calling them out on it. elizabeth: so those, that's tough words. he's basically saying that pelosi's aiding china's cover-up. your reaction to that. >> well, like i say, everyone's interests align. the democrats want to talk about atother things. they don't want it to come to light that we knew and many of

the investigators didn't come, you know, couldn't come forward because when you have dr. fauci and others saying it was natural causes, but you have facebook, you know, calling it a conspiracy theory and banning it fromd their platform of anybody asking these kind of questions, you know, everyone's aligned for this to just go away. we're not going to let it go away. steve scalise is absolutely right that we have to get to the bottom of it. and it's not about looking -- elizabeth: okay, we've gotta go. >> -- finally, what was the chinese military's role in all of this because -- elizabeth: in all of this, right. we've got to go. we've got to wrap it, right. we got it. >> we're studying biowarfare, and, again, we have to stop it. elizabeth: congressman michael waltz, thanks for joining us. let's bring in former hhs assistant secretary dr. bretty resource. here's the thing, we've got dr. fauci's repeat if denials in

senate testimony last month that they were not, you know, backing gain of function research. but government documents show way back in 2002 that dr. fauci's bosses at the nih did, in fact, use taxpayer money toto fund dangerous gain of function research and pay for a patent on it before the first sars outbreak in china. the patent was coming in from usc-chapel hill. -- unc-chapel hill? why is he denying this? >> so thanks for having me on. i think the evidence is clear from 2015 when a paper was published in one of the most prominent, well-read journals in the world, "nature," that the nih funded research that combined two different types of coronavirus to make one that had never existed. that's gain of function research are. we also know that since 2015 there's been a whole excel

spread sheet full of grants funding bat coronavirus research. now, weco don't know what kind f research they did. that's why the congress needs to investigate, to determine exactly what they said they were going to do, what they did and what the accountability and controls for the nih were. the final thing i want to say, and it's not been pointed out enough, is gain of function research goes through an internal, this ih review to determine whether it's worthwhile or not. that is not public. we don't know who reviews it. we we don't know who are on the review panels. all this really needs to be investigated by congress and have special reviews even if we do it in the united states. we should never do it in places like china. elizabeth: we've got dr. baric looking at gain of function research way back in the year 2000. so this was going on on, again, before the sars virus ignited in the early 2000s. they were looking into ramping up, quote, pathogenic infectiousness of these viruses,sen answering them

for -- enhancing them for treatment and for vaccines. so we're doing that when we don't have our defenses up and and running here in the united states inn terms of our strategc national stockpile that couldn't even handlet an outbreak like this. so what is dr. fauci doing saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go gain of function when we don't have our defenses ready tn battle it? what was that about in. >> well, you know, i don't think we can ever have our defenses to battle against every man made frankenstein virus that can attack human beings. that's why we have to be very careful on limiting who does the research, how it's done and the controls that are on it. and no matter how you look at it, doing that kind of research in a laboratory that has had errors, the nontransparent society that's linked up with the chinese military is never a good idea. so,s again, we can't say it enough, we really need the investigation. representative scalise is correct, we need to find a root cause and make sure it never happens again. elizabeth: yeah. we don't have the ground zero in

terms of the animal that had the virus or the intermediary host yet. let's listen again to dr. fauci with senator rand paul. watch this. >> dr. fauci, do you still support funding of the nih funding of the lab in wuhan? >> senator paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the nih has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the wuhan institute of virology. >> do they fund dr. baric? elizabeth: okay. he's not being forthcoming there, right? because it was dr. baric giving u.s. technology to the wuhan lab. and, by the way, the nih got the patent for dr. bar you can's gain of function -- baric's gain of function research in 2018. what is going on with dr. fauci

continually dodging and being isreally slippery in his languae in his testimony here? >> well, you know, i can't say what's going on in dr. fauci's head. but, again, i do want to reiterate that the 2015 paper out of the wuhan lab and a number of other institutes clearly showed gain of function research being funded by niad. there is high likelihood, although we don't know because the nih has not been transparent if, about all the research that has gone on since then. that's why we need a congressional investigation, and we need to absolutely modify, make transparent a and accountae to the american public any gain of function research that's done. and i'm going to say that there is a limited role -- elizabeth:li what -- forgive me, let me interrupt. i don't mean to cut in, forgive me -- >> no, you're good. elizabeth:i i'm coming in via satellite separate from you, but senator rand paul has an amendment, he's saying ban it. don't do it ever again. don't gog -- don't do gain of function research.

>> i believe the amendment is in china, and i 100% agree with that. i believe that we need more controls, but certain amount of gain of function in certified laboratories in the united states could be appropriate under certain circumstances. but not in china, not in places that are not transparent mixed up with the communist party and with the chinese military. this really is no reason to do itmm under those circumstances, for sure. elizabeth: well, seems like there was a shortage of common sense that happened too. dr. brett giroir, thank you soir much for joining us. come back soon. still ahead, we have a critical week this week on capitol hill about the biden agenda. democrat in-fighting is putting that agenda potentially in jeopardy. time is running out. we've got the midterms bearing down and a debt ceiling fight heading our way. congresswoman claudia tenney will break thathe down. also dark money, anonymous donations to get this the senate rules changed in order to do a big blowout in government

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♪. elizabeth: okay. welcome back. democrat infighting, the reports are coming in it elizabeth: welcome back. democrat in-fighting, it may hurt presidentnt biden's agenda. it's entering a critical week on capitol hill. we have a looming july 4th recess inat the senate, that starts at the end of the week. the midterms are bearing down, the debt ceiling fight coming in too. congresswoman claudia tenney, it's good to see you again. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. p elizabeth: we're hearing president biden may want a $974 billion infrastructure plan. that's about one-sixth of what bernie sanders and elizabeth warren want. is this really a civil war, progressives versus centrists in the democrat party? >> remember, that's down from $6 trillion the total package between the infrastructure and the new appropriations that are coming through. but that's over phi years --

five years, so it's actually fairly reasonable. i think this is ted on arrival in the house -- dead on arrival in the house as it currently stands because they aren't interested in true infrastructure which deals with the roads and the bridges and even broadband which you could add to that, our water infrastructure, those types of things that we need in places like mine, my district which is, you know, older, an original colony, the state of new york. they want to see the green new deal implemented. they want to see all these climate change and climate, you maknow, bureaucrats going around enforcing the new climate and green new deal bill. i mean, that's what they're erinterested in. it'd be curious for me to see how they do bringing that back to the house and how much it changes because we are on a little bit of a deadline. there's not much time left before we go into the august recess and our appropriation bills are due. our budget is due in the fall, and i think we're looking at, as you say, debt ceiling,

obviously, increase. maybe a government shutdown. you're going to see all kinds of activity going on at a very fast rate between now and july and then september is going to be one heck of a month where we try to find a solution and try to find solutions that are bipartisan for the americant people. yeah.eth: well, we've got this, you know, so we're tracking the money flows coming out of these anonymous far-left donors giving tens of millions of or dollars to backhouse democrats that say, yeah, get the senate rules changed, get rid of the filibuster, ram through bernie's $6 trillionn bill. one group is backed by the hopewell fund. so i think you're right to say that, yeah, the fighting is going to go on with the progress is in the house. they're going to say, no, we want the climate change agenda. but, you know, steve scalise is saying this is a phony agenda, because they're trying to outlaw heavy fossil fuels and steel factories here in the u.s., you know, fueled by the fossil

fuels, but, you know, they will just go offshore to polluting countries like china who will make the steel. what do you say? >> it's amazing how hypocritical it is. it's okay if china pollutes and other countries in the middle east that make us dependent on them. we cut the xl pipeline shut down by president biden, that's not okay, but it's okay for other countries to do that. and that's why what you're seeing now is this high rate of inflation, inability still to be able to find supplies. go look at a car lot. just drive down the street ask see all the empty car lots. you know, used cars are are -- it's veryat hard to even get a used car right now. i mean, the supply chain is still a problem. and, youha know, this is -- they don't really understand what's gown on with the economy that -- going on withen the economy that eventually our money's going to be worthless if the inflation continues onward and we continue to flood money into this program. and on top of that, they're talking about raising taxes.

raising taxes on people who make as little as $75-100,000. that sounds like a lot, but not when you get into some of the big cities and two-earner families. i mean, this is -- they're talking about real damaging taxes that are going to be very confiscatory. and i'll say actually going to hurt our economic growth and if bring us in even more debt and actually produce less. less dynamism in our economy. elizabeth: so you're saying house democrats are talking about raising taxes on 100k. the president's saying no to gas tax, but you're hearing in the house they want to raise taxes on those middle class workers. is that what you're hearing? >> that's what the ultimate result will be when you look at where they're actually going to raise taxes. so so many businesses particularly in my region are pass-through businesses. that means they actually pay their income tax for their company through their personal income tax. and they're talking about doubling the capital gains, going up substantially on that. they're taking away the 20%

business deduction for people who run small businesses. by the time you see the actual result, you're going to see this impacting people with much lower esincomes than the $400,000 thas projected or t talked about by e biden administration x. they don't even really deny it, they just talk about something else. that concerns me because i have a small business, and 94% of the jobs in my district created by the small businesses, not the big companies. there's just an economic illiteracy i here on the side of the democrats and understanding what the average -- elizabeth: got it. >> -- make money and take carege of their families. ble elizabeth that's great unsight. congressman tenny, thank you so much for joining us. great stuff there. >> good to see you. elizabeth: up next, author and columnist kristin tate on dr. fauci again doubling down, claiming any attacks on him are attacks on science. we've got more on how the embodiment of science quickly flip-flopped in realtime, undercutting his excuse that it'sus about the science evolvi.

lvand this debate, is dr. fauci more outraged at hits to his reputation than finding out what actually triggered the pandemic? where is dr. fauci's outrage about a possible lab leak that has already occurred in the past in china? those stories next. >> from the very beginning, the democrats saw this coronavirus pandemic as a way to beat the former president inde the electt last year. and, basically, anything that he said or that i said or that some other republicans said was immediately rejected by the, quote-unquote, science, even though there wasn't a scientific basis for it, even though there was not evidence against it and some of it has been proven correct in retrospect. it just goes to show he's been acting as a democratic party activist in a white lab coat, not as a neutral and on thive public health expert -- objective public health expert.

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politics over science. he himself doesn't follow the science on a continual basis. last year he told people we wear masks, he subsequently admitted he lied about that because he was worried about a mask shortage. later on he was telling people to wear two masks, then he backtracked on that because there was no data to suggest it kept people safe. he refused to acknowledge acquired immunity which prevented him from prioritize thingit people who had not gottn covid when the vaccine came out. and then, of course, he kept speaking out in favor of school lockdowns long after we knew that in-person learning did not pose any particular threat to students, staff or teachers. dr. fauci is only concerned with his own power. the well-being of the american people appears to be secondary to him. and, you know, he really only seems in favor of giving people back their rights when it benefited him and his own power. elizabeth: he says he puts, quote, very little weight in the

craziness of condemning him. we're still waiting for his hair on f fire outrage about a possie lab leak. but, you know, he's saying that, you know, these are ad hominem talks when these are factual rebut ifals based on his own words. you pointoi out he's talking about, you know, i was changing my position because the science was evolving when it was really speculation a lot of times masquerading as fact. and the science was evolving, he said over time, no, he was of flip-flopping in realtime. what do you say to that? >> yeah, he's lost all credibility. and capital s science has become this all-purpose cudgel over the past year to just silence dissent and even questions that are reasonable. the pandemic was seized upon by political figuresur mostly on te left including dr. fauci to drastically grow the size and scope of the state and to blow out the federal spending. i mean, for biden and his

administration, it benefits them to keep the covid panic going because it justifies basically remaking the u.s. economy and handing out these unending federal checks. so it's become very hard to trust figures like anthony fauci. and frankly, liz, that's dangerous to the country because we don't want people at the nuh being political figures. we want them to give us the facts and the information so that we can make our own decisions for our own families to keep ourselves safe. elizabeth: yeah. >> they've lost credibility. elizabeth: the question is, why not just own it? why not just own what you said? you know, to your point about masks, behind the scenes he was e-mailing hhs secretary under obama saying masks are not effective, you know? he's's been at the nuaid -- niad since 1984. and he wasth denying they funded gain of function research.

2011 washington post op-ed, yeah, create a dangerous virus in a lab. the intent was to gets. therapeutics and vaccines. 2012, yeah, the benefits outweighgh the risks. i don't know what the rusks are. 600,000 americans dead? you're pushing on gain of function research when you're not ramping up america's defenses against it. you know what i mean? what are you doing? >> no, that's exactly right. and the american people see what's going on, and that's why trust in a few is dropping like a rock -- in fauci. i saw a poll that 60 fewer republicansrh trust him -- 60% fewer trust him than they did a year ago. and a significant numb of democrats and independents as well have lost faith and trust in him too. i think people should get back to their lives. we have the vaccines now, we data and information at this point. people can make decisions for themselves. and, unfortunately, it's gotten to theot point where most people are just tuning fauci out

because we feel that we can't the information we're getting from this guy. he has a bad track record. he's shown us time and time again that he prioritizes politics over the facts, over the science. and even that term, science, has become weaponized. it's really a disgrace. people are fed up with it. elizabeth: all right. kristin tate, thanks for joining us. come back soon. coming up, former acting i.c.e. director ron vitiello is back with us to talk to us about what he thinks about the media continuing its fact-free attacks on texas' own push for its own border wall. the state has the biggest gaps in border security. nearly half of all illegal crossings take placesi in texas. we've got more on the growing border crisis next on "the evening edit." >> you can see behind me, i'm in between a gap along the border wall, and that just goes to show you that there are so many gaps along the border right now that

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♪ elizabeth: back with us now, former acting i.c.e. director ron vitiello. it's good to see you. okay, the media -- it's good to see you. the media was really attacking the governor of texas saying he's going to get texas to build a border wall, but people don't realize that texas has the worst border security, enormous gaps. it looks like, according to the washington examiner, just 12% of the border has sort of barrier -- has any sort of barrier. fences built by ranchers. so what's the media talking about? >> it'd be interesting for them to cover this in a way that makes sense to the rest of the american people. so the governor's going after this administration because they failed in their duty to protect that border.

half of the u.s./mexico border is in texas. so i admire the governor for taking this on, because he knows he's got a responsibility to protect his citizenry. and so making sure that the government closes the gaps that have been created by these construction projects and emphasizing the need for a wall along his border, the texas/mexico border. because what does that wall do? it protects all of us. it stops smuggling, it stops drugs from coming in, it helps break up human trafficking, it makes the environment safer for our agents to work in, it gives them lateral access, it gives them a border road to help better patrol that border, and it makes those communities safer. they're not just protecting that border, and that's important, people need to know they can't come freely in, but they're protecting all of us. people that cross the border in a place like the rio grande valley, they don't stay in the valley. they come to the united states all over the country. that's the same thing that happens to the drugs and

contraband that are smugglinged across that -- smuggled across that border. the governor knows this. and anybody that's been there for five minutes knows that the border's safer with a barrier, with technology, with agents. not one thing's going to solve it, but if you have that right combination, we're all safer for it. elizabeth: is it true that half of all illegal border crossings happen in texas? >> when i was at the valley a couple of -- ten days ago, the sector was reporting that 30% of all traffic on the southwest border in thely to yo grand valley, which is only 240 miles of the texas border, they're at 30% all by themselves. so if you add in del rio, el paso and big bend sector, yeah, it's possibly half or more of all the activity cross-border that's coming in illegally. elizabeth: all right. ron vitiello, thanks for joining us. it's good to see you, come back soon. thanks for your service to our

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and there seems to be a pattern here, liz, because black lives matter, there areau questions surrounding where some of the spending went with this organizationon as well which zabrought in, what, over $90 million in 2020 alone by exploiting people's bad situations, basically. because you haveal family membes who were questioning the spending of this organization. they feel like they've been exploited. and you also have members of the different chapters or people that work there that are questioning the spending of where the money went from the black lives matter donations. and don't forget, this woman just left black lives matter last month, the organization that she helped cocofound, because there were -- co-found, because there were questions surroundingon her extravagant spending habits on properties that she purchased recently. elizabeth: yeah. four houses that she spent more than $3 million if on.

she said the houses were bought with cash earned through her books and public speaking fees. but can it be asked that the same thing that reported hi is happening at that other nonprofit, that they merely took the money but didn't report it to theit irs, that's a big red flag for black lives matter, right? that they just underreported donations to the irs, yeah. >> no, you're absolutely right. this is huge. and thank goodness this information is coming out because of a watchdog group that sued for the information and paperwork. so you've got to also look at the fact that people are outraged and questioning where the money went and looking at how they exploited the tragedies of people -- and let's not forget, black lives matter is a radical, dangerous organization, i think. first of all, they believe america is systemically racist. they hatera the police departme. they despise the police, they despise law enforcement. they want to disband the family

unit. that was on their web site, but they scrubbed it. and this group really needs to be looked at and investigated from top to bottom to get to the bottom of where the money went, where's the spending. and the irs issues as well, that's very serious. i can't just not report my income to the irs because i don't want to. elizabeth: yeah. we hear you loud and clear. you know, you talked about the people who are upset. it includes michael ferguson sr., you know, excuse me, michael brown sr.. his son was shot dead in ferguson, missouri, in 2014. he is joining with the blm ten plus movement. these are the ten original black lives matter chapters saying where's the financial accountability, where's the transparency. they want an investigation into where is the money going. but if you ask those questions, they ea get turned around on you. it's sort of like, you know, go after a the messenger in these

kinds of environments. what do you say? >> well, in-fighting is interesting, and it's good that they are applying pressure on black p lives matter, the so-called leaders there, and e hopefully they will get to the bottom of the spending, what happened with the donations that came in. again, in 2020 alone, $90 million came in in donations. so where's the full accountability and the money that they spent,? spent, a? and, b, where did the money really come from in i know she said it was from speaking events and books or whatever, but we need to know for sure what happened. elizabeth: deneen borelli, it's good to see you. he just ahead, texas congressman tony gonzalez on how both democrats and republicans are demanding answers as to why vice president kamala harris has not visited the border yet. republicans urging the president to remove the vice president as

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we've got 56 house republicans now urging the president to remove the vice president from her border role as border czar. but does it even matter? they're acting like they don't even care about the border. >> you know, it's almost 90 days, and she's yet to show up. beyond showing up, they've literally shown zero interest. and it's not just about listening to republicans, it's about listening to democrat as well. it's about being respectful for those thatly on the border -- that the live on the border. this crisis has turned the deadly. you're seeing migrants pass away at record numbers. you seeing -- you're seeing drownings on the border, you're seeing the border patrol agents have saved over 7,000 lives in the past month. they're having to put up beacons that are also saving lives. it is spiraling out of control, and kamala harris is nowhere with to be found. elizabeth: you know, the vicebe president laughed off the question from lester holt at nbc

when she was going to visit the border, she laughed it off multiple times. but now that dea says a tidal wave of dangerous synthetic drugs are flooding into america's cities from heroin, methamphetamine and fentanyl pouringmi in from the border, bt now we've got the former president, donald trump, he's going to visit the texas border. your take on all of that. >> yeah. my district is larger than 30 states. i represent over 40% of our southern border x. you're seeing record numbers of drugs come through. fentanyl in particular. you're talking about a deadly drug. we've seen over 7500 pounds of fentanyl, and that's just what has been caught. what worries me are the getaways, the number of drugs and the number of actors, bad t actors, that are coming through that we are not catching. and it's long time, you know, that this president take it serious. this isn't a new topic e. every president has had to deal

with border security. i'm happy to see president trump come to texas, see it firsthand, and i would love to see president biden follow his, follow suit. elizabeth: florida is sending their law enforcement to help out at the texas border. south dakota may too. other states as well. we have florida governor ron desantis saying, you know what? everybody's fed up, republicans and democrats are fed up with the inattention, the lack of attention by the biden administration at theni border. watchh this. >> we don't want these drugs coming into our country. [applause] and we need to act, because i can tell you these cartels are eating joe biden's lunch. what does it say about an administration when the states have to step up and do the job that the federal government's supposed to be doing? >> our border czar, vice president harris, has yet to visit the border. literally, she has spent more time the, steve, addressing climate change in space than she

has on addressing the border crisis. [laughter] >> the only way we can help is if she makes a visit down to the border, meets with sheriffs, land orers, mayors, judges, ngos down here. not a staged visit, but have a real sit-down with the people that see this on a day-to-day basis. finish. elizabeth: so why not do what democrat henry cuellar of texas is saying, vice president harris? just come down and sit down with us, sit down with border officials, and they can tell you what's going on. whew aren't they showing up in. >> yeah. you u know, my -- henry cuellars my neighbor to the south, and we see it very similar on this issue, you know? securing our border is absolutely critical to our districts. i'd argue that the every city and every state is a border city and border state the whether that's the fentanyl and the drugs that are coming over, whether that's the over 800,000 illegal immigrants that are having to be displaced and sent

all over the country or whether that's the 80,000 unaccompanied children. they're not just -- they're not staying in texas. they are literally going to all 50 states. it's encouraging to see governor desantis and others kind of lend a hand in this fight and. it really feels as if texas alone on this issue, and it shouldn't be that way. you know, the federal government, joe biden inrn particular, caused this problem. and it's really only when the federal government kind of reverses some of their issues is when they're going to solve it. it's encouraging that those in congress, myself, henry cuellar on the democratic side, john cornyn, senator cornyn leading in the senate along with senator sinema have come together to find a bipartisan way to secure our border. elizabeth: okay. all right. congressman tony gonzalez, thank you so much for joining us. it's good to have you on. come back again soon, okay? it was great insights and perspective. congressman gonzalez of texas.

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