sanity to the end of your day. that does it for us on "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪ elizabeth: we've got breaking news. the vote is now underway, but the democrats' reform bill is expected tos fail in the senate tonight. now this, the rest of the biden agenda in jeopardy. far-left democrats today say they will try to block all business in the house if infrastructure spending is not big enough. plus they are now attacking democrats with tv ad campaigns who get this their way over -- in their way over more governmentg spending and power.

joining us tonight, senator bill hagerty, phillip holloway, texas congressman michael burgess, ford o'connell, american energy worker advocate daniel turner, and ken cucinelli. also tonight the democrat push to try to use the irs potentially to go after conservative political to opponents at nonprofits? that may be failing too. we're going to explain. also a dramatic rise in violent crime nationwide. it is disrupting the white house agenda. the president will address it in a speech tomorrow that will reportedly blame gun violence. but minority and immigrant communities say it's also because of the push to defund police. plus, a new bombshell report from the hhs inspector general findinger head care nursing home deaths skyrocketed nearly a third during t the pandemic. that again puts in focus democrat governors' botched nursing home policies like putting covid patients back into

nursing homes, thus infecting and, critics say, killing other residents. dr. fauci's ally, peter daszak, he fought the censor the wuhan lab facility. he was removed from an investigation over the pandemic due to conflicts of interest. he reportedly did not disclose all of his nonprofit funding and connections to the wuhan lab. also tonight why did the nih continue to give millions of dollars to daszak's nonprofit after former president trump at that time said, no, cancel the money, no more funding? plus, native american business leaders now suspending an oil andga gas pipeline that the far left wants to defeat. we're going to explain that one. and the major outbreak of drug cartel violence and crime just across the border from u.s. cities. seven mexican borderer towns now rankeded monothe world's most -- among the world east most

violent. now, border authorities are warning it is the cartels controlling things at the border. thanks forth joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: let's get right at it. the senateet right now is voting on that controversial voting rights bill. this is the democrats' signature property priority, all 50 agreeing to vote along the party line. joe manchin striking a deal with chuck schumer to vote yes on the motion to proceed. erit's not enough. the procedural vote is expected to fall short. they can't get ten more, ten republicans to join them in a 60-vote defeat to stop a potential and expected filibusterer. joining us now, tennessee senator bill bill hagerty. this really does underscore the limits of the democrat party's

power. they're not going to get the 60 votes. what do you say? >> it's exactly right. this is the most thinly divided senate that we've seen. they behave as if they have some mandate. i fought against this bill in the rules committee, i fought against it after this, after this hit tonight with you. i'll be proud to vote against this.. it's the most brazen attempt at a power grab that we've seen, and it's the number one legislative priority of the democrats. elizabeth: so now we've got house progressives, they're infuriated that the president did not use his bully pulpit to get this thing passed, democrats saying they're going to try to block with all business in the house if they don't get their way on even more infrastructure spending. they want bernie sanders' $6 trillion bill, and they're going after senator kyrsten sinema with tv campaign ads. they want more government spending here andnd her if powe. what do you say?

>> i think it's their socialist agenda, they're pushing it so hard that i think it's becoming repugnant to the average american. this isn't what america needs or wants, and republicans are standing firm against it. elizabeth: so now we've got senator lisa more cow city -- murkowski, now she's joining republicans saying,ns no, i dont want this bill. republican senator john kennedy said it's going to make it much easier to cheat. can you explain that? >> well, if you look at the content ofhe this bill, what thy do is, essentially, legislate some of the most vulnerable componentsvu of voter fraud. you think about the commission that wasas put together by formr president jimmy carter e, former secretary of state james baker. they identified mail-in voting and ballot harvesting as two of the greatest vulnerabilities to voter fraud in america. that's exactly what the democrats are trying to legislate. they want to do away with voter id. americans are for voter identification. we want to know that the system has integrity. and this bill does everything to

cut against it. by the way, it weaponizes the federal election commission. you're going to turn the judge now into the prosecutor. this is not what america wants. elizabeth: yeah. you know, senator kennedy said we'd never have another election dday, we would have election month, you know? the statew elections are governd by the people through their statee legislatures. >> yes. elizabeth:or senator kennedy sad the federal bureaucracy can't even stop spam calls. we've got that, and to your point about the new monmouth poll shows that 8 out of 10 americans say, yeah, we are for voter id. 62% of democrats say, yes, we are for voter id. 9 out of 10 independents say that too. what do you say? >> ira think the democrats in washington are tone deaf. the components of this legislation have been lying around washington in back rooming -- back rooms for years. they tried it back in 2017, again a couple years ago.

again they put it through in 20 using the excuse of the pandemic . -- the guise of the pandemic. but what they're really trying to do forever shift the advantage to their court, and americans aren't going to stand for it. elizabeth: youou know, stacey abrams tried to claim that no oneer has ever objected to voter id, but just two months ago she said they were racist jim crow laws. and we have barack obama, senator chuck schumer slamming what the republican opposition to the vote bill. let's listen to senator mitch mcconnell here. watch this. >> georgia passed targeted updates to its election laws based on lessons learned during thean pandemic era elections. democrats trashed the bill as, quote, a redux of jim crow. left-leaning fact checks repeatedly debunked these claims. elizabeth: can you talk more about whatou the state legislats are doing in the majority of the

states here? >> i think what we saw happen, liz, was something during the pandemic where a lot of accommodations were made to try to help people vote. in fact, in 2020 more people voted, and we set records in terms of voter turnout. this is about states then coming back, looking at the processes and procedures. in a number of cases, the constitution was violated to make this happen. in fact, i've passed legislation, i put legislation forward, i should say, that'll call for an audit of the 2020 election. and for those statementss that did violate the constitution, they will receive no more federal funding until that's fixed. what we've seen is the states are coming back and saying what happened in 2020, what do we need to do. to insure integrity, and in many cases, there's more voter access today than there was in 2018. elizabeth: senator bill hagerty, it's great to have you on. >> thanks so much. elizabeth: good to see you. former deputy national security

adviser kt mcfarland, author of the book "revolution: trump, washington, and we the people." the reports that for the second time in about a month f-22 fighters scrambled, a russian fleet currently carrying out the largest war games since the cold war. we're hearing they practiced sinking an aircraft carrier 35 miles off of hawaii. what do you say? >> look, it's extraordinary that we just had the biden/putin summit, and going into the summit biden gave up all his leverage. he gave h up the pipeline, he ge up russians on the ukrainian border, he gave up, he gave up the whole ransomware hacking thing, he gave up everything. and then theth when he went into that meeting, the russians -- this is now the largest exercise in the post-cold war period, and the russians, it's such a

provocativee exercise. and yet, you know, what did president biden do? here sat down at the meeting. i'll tell you, my advice to him, donald trump or anybody, you do that to theta unite, you have an exercise like that right at our territorial waters, you get up is and lee are because the russians -- leave, because that was a deliberate slap in the face. the mock sinking of an aircraft carrier, that's sort of thank you very much for our summit meeting, we just loved it. and prime minister putin got a -- president putin got an international audience and got the stage all by himself, and this is what he's doing. elizabeth: yeah, we hear you. you're saying a appeasement of putin doesn't work, right? >> never works! you know, the cold war, liz, we always had a joke that the defense policy of some countries in europe, they would get tennis shoes, they would get sneakers. why? because they figured if a russian bear came, they would runst faster than anybody else,

and theyau would never get caugt caught. you know, appeasement never works. it c certainly never works with putin. i've studied this guy for decades. i've eveni gone back and looked at her dissertation. he is a bully, and he will keep pushing, pushing, pushing, pushing until he meets some kind of resis dance. he got an american president who looked tired, old and kind of confused. and what's putin doing? trying to pretend to sink an aircraftft carrier. elizabeth: so that's happening right off of hawaii. back to the reaction in d.c., another democrat push failed. democrats werery trying to force nonprofits to reveal to the irs and to the government the names of donors and their donors' home addresses. democrats are saying they needed to stop anonymous dark money flooding into d.c. and influencing laws. republicans said, no, this is a new way to weaponize the irs to attack conservative political opponents. with we've seen that under the obama administration and other

administrations too. what do you make of this failing? >> yeah. look, the irs was weaponized during the obama administration. there was a national grass roots movement, the tea party movement x. this is not nationally organized, it was happening all across the country. and groups asked -- they applied to the irs for tax-exempt status. absolutely their right. what did the obama administration if irs do? it crushed it, slow-walked it. one of those groups got tax-exempt status. as a result, the democrats thought,ul oh, great, we have jt crushed this tea party movement. but guess what? it came back, and it came back as a popular movement, anti-government, anti-big spending, pop list movement -- populist movement and elected donald trump. if the democrats think we're going to get those conservatives now, we're going to be big government, we're going to get more and more information out of those evil i conservatives, it's going to come back and bite them because in 2022 republicans are

will take the house and senate, 2024 they'll take the white house, and where are the democrats? i think the wholek thing is a mess, but it's a very foolish strategy on the part of the democrats. elizabeth: final question. you know, we've got top democrat leaders trying to paint all republicans, all conservatives as supporting the capitol hill riots. there's division in the gop party about that though. not everyone supported the capitol hill riots, but the democrats are using it as a broad brush, a broad paint brush in order to do things like use the irs to go after conservatives. is that what you're hearing? that's what we're hearing happening out of d.c. final word, kt. >> and a majority of republicans, they don'ton like e january 6th events any more than anybody else does. they're using it as an excuse to, therefore, justify targeting of those conservatives and republicans. it's all made up. elizabeth: okay. kt mcfarland, it's good to see

you. coming up, former police officer phillip holloway on a dramatic rise in violent crime in more than cities. -- in american cities. now, the president will address this in a speech tomorrow. he's going to blame gun violence and there's this too, minority and immigrant communities say it's also the push to defund the police that's behind the rise in violence. you are watching "the evening edit." stay with us. >> you know what's going to happen? the pendulum is going to swing so far to the other side because people have had enough. and if you made the argument months ago that it's just the cities, don't worry about it, i'm sorry, it's coming to the suburbs too. sit's everywhere. >> yeah. ♪ ♪ you oughta customize your car insurance with liberty mutual, so you only pay for what you need. oh um, doug can we talk about something other than work, it's the weekend.

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one of the safer areas, but business owners tell us they're having to close early because it's too dangerous to stay open late. >> it's just, it gets more treacherous later at night. there's a lot of carjacking, looting, robbing, it's just not a good situation down here. people in power need to get these people off the streets. >> reporter: and the numbers back up what danny was describing there. criminal complaints in this neighborhood where we are in the last 28 days compared to the same period a year ago are up about, across the board whether it's robberies, shooting incidents, vehicle theft up 60%, sexual assault up 467. and, liz, as you mentioned, this is just another channel for businesses as they're -- challenge for businesses as they're trying to reopen and tourism is starting to come back to the city of chicago and other cities. now they're dealing with this spike in crime. liz? elizabeth: grady, that's a really stunning report. thanks for your journalism.

it's good to see you, my friend. let's bring in former georgia police officer phil holloway with. sir, you just heard that report. this is happening in cities across the country. small businesses actually also having to move and even shut down. what do you say? >> 467% rise in sexual assaults, what are we doing here, liz? look, this all flows, in my view, from the unprosecuted, the rioting and looting and the extreme violence overr the last 15 or so months where government leaders, prosecutors, d.a.s, police chiefs, mayors all seem to look the other way. look, the first amendment says we as citizens of the united states, we have a right to peaceably assemble and to then petition the government for redress of grievances. that's the first amendment. it says peaceably. so met me say this loud and clear for the people in the back, the first amendment does not protect rioting, it doesn't protect looting, and it does not

protect those who to that from prosecution. back to prosecuting violent crimes, and we must get back to enforcing the laws and not pretending that rioting and looting are simply protesting, liz. elizabeth: well, it's also, you know, out and out violence. the violence is disrupting the biden agenda. the president is going to address the spike higher in violent crime in his speech tomorrow. he's going to talk about gun ownership, gun violence, minority and immigrant secommunities say it's because f the push to defund the police. it sounds like we're headed for a long, hot summer. and, by the way, president biden has privately addressed concerns that, yeah, the defund the police movement iss hurting the democrat party. what do you say to all that? >> well, if you want to blame anything or anyone other than actual perpetrators of the crime, let's start with prosecutors who turn the other way, look the other way, let's look at mayors who don't let

police officers do their jobs. americans, i think are finally, liz, waking up to the notion thatto each person individuallys responsible for their own individualal safety. they're arming themselves because they know that they can't the government or the police even to do it for them. so they're arming themselves, they're looking for other reasonable ways to take care of their own personal safety. business owners are doing the same thing. we can't have business owners who can't do business because people are walking off with their merchandise unobstructed. we can't have merchants who fear that their businesses are going to be burned to the ground like we saw in atlanta with no meaningful prosecution because cities are not going to be viable, states will not be finish that's the end of organized society and, quite frankly, it's anarchy. we've got to get back to the idea of holding people accountable. elizabeth: okay. you know, msnbc contributor and former obama administration appointee britney packet cunningham, she tried to blame

police for the rising crime rates in new york city. watch this. >> a lot of police union and gop or nottives that would like for us to believe this recent crime wave has everything to do with this idea of defunding the police. what?ess the police haven't been defunding, so so this rising crime is not the fault of the movement, it's actually o the fault of the police. elizabeth: okay. forgive me, with respect, that's really incompetent journalism, to not push back on that. we see this all the time on msnbc and cnn. fact checkers is say she's wrong. minority and immigrant community groups say it is because of defund the police overrunning their communities. they can't get police officers to protect them because they're gone, and by the way, nearly a quarter million dollars was cut from the new york city police budget, it was repurposed to go to other things. so, you know, other activities. so whatit do you say to this in. >> you know, actually, i came

across that segment in preparing for my segment here with you, and it just blows my mind how you can saw something like that piece on msnbc. youu know, you don't have to watch the news or anything really longer than about five seconds to find somebody wanting to blame this on covid-19 or to blame it on something else. but really it goes back to the officials who are supposed to be enforcing the laws. they are letting violent criminals get away with doing anything that they want literally. i've seen, since my last appearance if on this show just about a week or so ago, i've seen video from l.a., from chicago of just absolute lawlessness and ap around key in the streets -- anarchy in the streets. and, honestly, it's frightening, and i think that americans finally, a liz, are waking up to this, and they're not going to stand for it anymore. elizabeth: got it. we've got breaking news. phillip holloway, thank you so much. the democrats' reform bill --

vote reform bill has fail in the senate. up next, congressman michael burgess will weigh in on the new bombshell report from the inspector general for hhs finding that medicare nursing home deaths skyrocketed nearly a third last year during the pandemic. that, again, puts in focus the democrat governors' botched nursing home policies like putting covid patients back into nursing homes. that's next on "the evening edit." >> i don't know how many more reports or investigations people are going to need to prove that thist governor had a death warrant for some of these seniors, harris. it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that putting infected patients into nursing homes for 46 days is going to cause death. ♪♪ . he's taking trulicity for his type 2 diabetes and now, he's really on his game. once-weekly trulicity lowers your a1c

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♪ elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show from the gop doctors' caucus b congressman michael burgess. congress bank, it's so good -- congressman, it's so good to have you back on. there'sth a shocking new report from the inspector general for hhs, deaths in nursing home rocketed higher by nearly a third last year, up 32. this is really disturbing stuff. what do you say? >> well, everyone knew this was going to be bad. i don't think anyone knew it was going to be this bad. just from their numbers, and we have only just recently had the report.

but a thousand beneficiaries a day died, more died in april of 2020 than died in april of 2019 of medicare nursing home residents. that's a stunning figure. and realistically, it's -- the we all talked about it last march where if you have a kong regant living -- congregant living facility, an older age loving population, this is a high risk situation, i guess what is just completely unbelievable about allf of this is that more was not done to mitigate that. mithe fact that we were closingn and locking down and keeping people from, from being outside, clearly those were, those were efforts that were not in the best interest. and then the horrific thing is ago regating people, you have a

congregant living facility, you don't place infected individuals in the middle of that because you know the next thing that's going to happen is going to be horrific. elizabeth: yeah. you make a good point. why did the deaths keep happening after we knew covid was tearing through nursing homes? four in ten medicare recipients in the nursing homes got covid-19. nearly six out of ten low income andur medicare nursing home patients got covid, 26% died. and you're right, we've got harvard health experts saying we knew it was bad, we just didn't know it was going to be this bad. half of the med tear patients -- can medicare patients got infected in state like connecticut, illinois, louisiana and new jersey. some of the botched policies putting patients back in. >> well, there's just so many things that come to mind. was their intention -- was there appropriate vitamin d given or

supplementation, was that available, was there appropriate outdoor activities, so is so sunlight that can affect vitamin levels, so many questions are raised byd this report. i will tell you, for me, the one bright spot is they recommended diving deep into cms data. this has been a concern of mine for some time. cms has a tremendous amount, the suspect for medicare and medicaid services that is part ofic the department of health ad human services, has a tremendous amount of data, and they seem to be very reluctant to allow are other people to look at that data. you know what? it's time. it's time that we're able to fashion and construct clinical decisions based on what has been learned from what has happened in our past. not everything has to be a prospective, randomized study. elizabeth: youre know, congressman, we hear you. it's about protecting the vulnerable, it's aboutro protecting our senior citizens, it's about protecting the poor. it's aboutut protecting

minorities, it's about protecting those who don't get representation or enough protection. congressman michael burgess, thanks for joining us. it's good to see you. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. again, the breaking news, the vote to get the democrat vote reform bill through, the democrat vote reform bill has failed in the senate. coming up, gop strategist ford o'connell will also weigh in on dr. fauci's ally, peter daszak. he has been removed from the united nations investigation into the origins of the pandemic due toti conflicts of interest. also this, why did the nih continue to give millions of dollars to das you can's nonprofit ---- daszak's nonproft after president trump said, tonight do it. he canceled -- don't do it. he canceled the funding. >> i think we all know what happened in wuhan. a virus originated, the city larger than new york right down

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because he didn't disclose conflicts of interest, apparently. what do you say? >> well, look, peter daszak has a lot of explaining to do. this guy was taking u.s. taxpayer money and fronting for the chinese communist party as theirty favorite pundit and spokesman. the more we dig into the origins of i the covid virus, the worset looks for dr. fauci in term of just misleading the country on what he knew about the origins and t what he knows about gain f function research. elizabeth: you know, daszak reportedly did not disclose his nonprofit connections to the wuhan lab, report id -- reportedly sent nearly a million bucks in taxpayer funds to it he denounced the lab leak possibility, plus he has a professional relationship with scientists in the lab. why didn't he just disclose it? in well, ie think that he wanted to quash the lab theory and wanted to make the case for the

ccp that this was actually out of nature because, remember, if we step back and look at this there a legal liability standpoint if, this has the potential to be the biggest liability case in the history of the world. but i think what's worse here, e. mac, is that you have white house medical adviser dr. fauci working behind the scenes with dr. daszak to quash the theory, and i think that's a big, big problem. elizabeth: yeah, when you -- "vanity fair" magazine reported about a big gain of function bureaucracy that's stonewalling a lot of things and shutting down dissent. so this happened last year. just months after president trump said, no, we're not going to send any more u.s. taxpayer money to the wuhan lab in china after the outbreak, the nih -- months later, by the summer -- reinstated a multimillion dollar grant to ecohealth alliance run by peter daszak. you know, there was lots of complaints about what trump did, so the money got reinestated

against what the administration said to do. how can that happen in. >> well, this is what happens in the swamp. i mean, look, dr. fauci has been in that position for several decades, and the trump administration tried to shut down the wuhan funding in early 2020. and the fact that it was reinstated in the august of 2020 at the height of the pandemic in the united states seems a little suspicious. and i promise youou the folks in the trump administration didn't do that, because they want to, you know, point the finger at china, and rightfully so. and essentially, it seems to me othat the medical community didn't care about the benefits of america. they were more interested in what they thought of playing god with the science. elizabeth: here's the question for dr. fauci: why aren't you more outraged that this may have leaked? right? simple. we're not even saying it's an engineered virus. enchina has a history of running unsafe labs, they have a history of lab leaks, and who got the idea, whoas signed off on sharig

this gain of function technology with china? because they, you know, we understand you ramp up virus research to get vaccines and therapeutics. but little to no thought that the u.s. was not ready, our defenses were not ready for a pandemic. >> well, i think that that's the whole point, e. mac, is that if dr. fauci had been straight -- look, many times on your show i've said that dr. fauci hasn't been straight from thera outsetn terms of covid, and had he actually told the trump administration everything he knew including dating back to the winter of 2019, you probably would have saved a lot more live. think dr. fauci is worried that the investigation's going the turn on him and show that he is not, he's done such a poor job during covid and has not been straight with not only the american people, but also congress and the president. elizabeth: yeah, we hear you. he's spent his life trying to help the american public, right?

with their health. he's been doing that. but it's just -- this point in time there are atlt lot of questions that people are asking. ford o'connell, thanks, i really appreciate it. next up, executive director of power of the future daniel turner is joining us next. far-left climate change activists, they've got a new target after stopping the keystone xl pipeline. they want to stop the embridge pipeline, but look at this. native american business leaders in a stunning rebuke, they're fighting to rescue this pipeline. we're going to have more after the break. >> the states that are affected by this, the governors, the senators, the torn generals, it's time to -- the attorney generals, it's time to get off the bench and get in the game because we've got a real american familieses that are suffering because of this. this is, you know, the men and women of this country, we feel like, you know, pawns in a game of chess that's being played up in washington d.c. this ain't a game. this is real americans, real families, real bills.

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♪ elizabeth: we are pleased and happy and excited to welcome to the show american energy worker advocate, he is daniel turner. daniel, it's great to have you on. okay, so we've got climate change activists, they stopped the keystone xl pipeline. now they're targeting the embridge pipeline that brings in oil from canada. now we've got native american business leaders saying, huh-uh, we have hundreds of native americans working on this pipeline. we don't want it shut down. what do you say? >> this is typical of the environmental movement writ large. they use these people as poster children for their cause, and what they doo is they take away their jobs, their opportunity, and then they leave and they abandon them. so energy jobs are predominantly found in rural communities. that's rural america, but it's also native communities, from

the northti slope of alaska whee anwr is, native communities in the northwest new mexico where there are coal communities that have really built the entire southwest from las vegas to flagstaff, these are native american communities who have tremendous resources, and with those resources come jobs and opportunities, and they're being used by the environmental left for purely political purposes. and then they will be abandoned by these same environmental left once their objectives are achieved. they've been doing this for hidecades x it's an absolute tragedy. elizabeth: yeah, we're showing images of, apparently, garbage that was left behind by climate change activists protesting. it's a $4 billion pipeline project, right? it carries oil from canada into the u.s., and a lot of it is near the mississippi river in minnesota. we're talking about 5200 construction jobs, also native american small businesses want the pipeline, and they say those who oppose if it, the climate change activists, they're not

minorities. a they're saying they're white. not that they're saying it's a racial issue, they're just pointing that out, that this is helping minorities. >> and the activism i've seen as i've been doing this job for a while, the climate change movement tends to attract rich, liberal whites. as a general rule, right? it is kind of a luxury of a community that doesn't have to worry about their coal mine closing, their fracking job, their pipeline job disappearing. you often get these groups bust in from state -- bussed in from state college because they're given a stipend. i'm not surprised the native groups would say, wait a second, you're not one of us, and yet you're speaking on our behalf. no ones comes and gives them opportunities, and they're left alone. and where do you see the greatest level of suicide, depression, opioid use, it's exactly this these communities. elizabeth: yeah, we hear what you're saying.

it feels like grandstanding because there's more than 2.2 million miles of pipeline in the u.s. they're just talking about the embridge and the keystone xl, you know what i mean? the renewables are not there yet with backup storage power. and, by the way, nat-gas emits lower gses than other types of fuel. >> all these infrastructure projects lower the cost of energy, and lower energy means cheaper goods, and that predominantly helps middle and lower class americans, so we should want more of these infrastructure projects, not fewer. elizabeth: daniel turner, thank you so much. ken cucinelli back with us after the breakre on major outbreak of car u tell crime just across the border from u.s. cities. i stay right there. employees are empowered. customers are engaged.

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one. they're going to come back with another bill in the fall, and we're going to see a lot of the same efforts to federalize elections and to stop states from cleaning up elections, and we're going to fight it at the election transparency institute. so goodd news today, but there's more to come. elizabeth: we hear you. let's move on to the border. reports of major violence break out at the border. >> yep. elizabeth: turn to the mexican border city used by drug cartels right across the border from mcallen,n, texas. at least 14 people shot dead in cartel warfare. taxi drivers, workers, nursing students and four suspects now dead. we've got seven cities, border towns in mexico ranked the worst in murders and homicides in the entire world. you've talked about this. their per capita violence and homicides in mexico is worse than the middle east. your reaction to this. >> it is, it's off the charts. and literally, americans can't

even imagine, the level of violence in some of these locales just on the other side of o the american border. and it's just like you said, the drugug cartels control these pas of mexico. again, hard for americans to comprehend. the government of mexico does not control about 15 or 20% of its own country. including most of the southern side of the u.s./mexico border. and the cartels do steer the human smuggling chains to where they wantha to send them to not just facilitate crossing illegally, but also so they can tie up the border patrol and get their drugs across into the united states as well. elizabeth: you know, we've got a texas family reportedly kidnapped by a criminal cartel while traveling through mexico. gladys christina sanchez perez. perez sanchez, forgive me. she's 39 years old. she and her two children, ages 9

and 16, have been missing since june 13th. just putting the word out there. yeah. former top i.c.e. official tom homan says mexican cartels control the border. much of mexico is a no-go zone south of the border. the question is, are human smugglers bringing in illegal aliens from not just central america and mexico, but from pakistan, the middle east, asia? let's watch the mayor of texas here. >> oh, absolutely. >> i can name some of them. they've been from yemen, they've been from iraq, they've been from iran, they've been from china, they've been from russia. they've been from the condo, they've -- right now it's a big surge of venezuelans, they've been from cuba, honduras, el salvador. i don't even haveas a complete list of all the 73 countries, but it just -- it keeps growing and growing and growing. here lately they've been getting out, o bailing out by our local

elementary schools, so we've had to put the local elementary schools on lockdown, and we had to bring more law enforcement in to surgeryen -- to search for these individuals. 90 of these cars that we're catching now we're finding loaded firearms in. elizabeth: i think you're just fired up, ready to go. [laughter] so you're saying, yes, smugglers are bringing in illegal aliens from overseas? your reaction. >> right. he named 73 countries in that part of the border, but across the border in a given year it's 160. i mean, frankly, there aren't that many people where we don't catch people coming across the border illegally in the southern border with mexico, and it's because they know it's as open as it is. and at leasts. under the trump administration, we were looking to seven those people home and to -- to send those people home and to close town the border. the biden administration has kicked the door open, and you justir heard the description ner

his own schools. they're being overrun and with tons of guns. usually the democrats don't like guns unless you're an i illegal alien -- illegal alien, apparently. elizabeth: ken cucinelli, thanks for being with us. you've been watching "the evening edit." we hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ ♪ larry: hello, everyone. welcome back to "kudlow," i'm larry kudlow. so sheer, raw brutal political power is our topic this evening as the senate debates a motion to proceed on s. 2, that's their -- s. 1, republican leader mcconnell, this is a partisan power grab but the left to rug the rules of american elections permanently in their favor.