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progressive democrats get what they want in the senate. that means multitrillion dollar spending bills. with us tonight, congressman rick craw ford, former nypd lieutenant darrin porcher, kevin faulkner, marsha blackburn, charlie hurt and national border patrol council president brandon judd. okay, you broke it, you fix it. but vice president harris' trip tomorrow to the border now slammed as just for show. the biden administration, look at this, is undercutting that visit, that camera-ready trip with a major pushback, a battle in court against border states like texas and arizona. they're dealing with rising border crime, home invasions and more due to what they say is the white house wiping out trump's border policies. and former president trump underscoring that by going to where the border crisis actually is while the vice president is

going to where it is not. we've got also this: new data that shows blacks are now hit the hardest by skyrocketing murders and homicides in u.s. cities from coast to coast. you won't believe what we're finding. also this, how will this big democrat voting bloc react, and it is official, look at this? the recall of california democrat governor gavin newsom is on. tonight, we're going to break down how california voters, they've had it. they're sick and tired of newsom's botched and hypocritical lockdowns. also this, rising crime, wildfires, power blackouts and more. plus, we've got a bombshell, a scientist now says he found on the cloud genetic data that china had a race on the coronavirus. this is genetic data from the wuhan lab. it could show more of a cover-up that this coronavirus was circulating much earlier than realized and also how the pandemic began and more on how

dr. fauci was pushing back on president trump on gain of function virus funding. and we've got this debate, the biden administration now banning a chinese green energy company's solar products in the u.s., but president bidening's son hunter profits off of a chinese investment fund that is buying stakes in sanctioned chinese green energy companies. plus, an msnbc host getting really what'sed for his botched criticism -- what'sed for his botched criticism of texas governor abbott over the texas border policies. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth elizabeth okay, welcome to the show. you're watching "the evening edit." critics now say, yes, democrats are on the defensive, yes, they expect losses in next year's midterm. the biden administration now racing to do cleanup on the

border, on i skyrocketing violent crime as the clock is ticking. that's where they are the most weak when it comes to their politics. joining us now, congressman august pfluger. your take on the vice president's visit to the border tomorrow. what do you think is going to happen? >> well, liz, thanks for having me. it's 93 days too late. and in that time let's look at what happened. 529,000 illegal immigrants have been apprehended, who knows how many gotaways. 7500 pounds of fentanyl and just an amazing amount of crime in my district. it's hitting all 29 counties in my district, and the biden administration is directly to blame. elizabeth: here's what else is going on. interesting use of the obamacare victory in the supreme court. the biden administration is now fighting texas, fighting arizona. those states are saying, you know, crime is hitting their a neighborhoods and towns, home invasions, robberies, car chases. so it feels like that visit is

getting undercut. the vice president's visit the getting undercut in how the biden administration is fighting the border states. what do you say? >> well, that's right. a couple of weeks ago we had two high-speed chases, 20 plus illegal immigrants in the back of a vehicle. in another they uncovered $500,000 worth of illicit drugs including fentanyl and methamphetamine. so it's affecting us. you have governor abbott who is having to deal with this directly because president biden has abbey dated his responsibility -- abdicated his responsibility. we as texans are to stand up for ourselves. elizabeth: okay, so we've got rump, former president trump going to where the crisis is, and the vice president is going to where the crisis is not. the texas governor's saying her trip is going to fail if she doesn't speak to local residents in the del rio sector.

he said people have had guns pointed at their heads. >> for sure you have ranches that aring with vandalized with high-speed if chases, crime that is soaring because of the drug trafficking, and you're right, it looks like a photo op for an hour. i hope she does go to el paso. she also needs to go to the rio grande valley, she also needs to go to del rio, and i hope she would looked in the eyes of border patrol agents and law enforcement agents including the migrants and get a feeling for the crisis she has caused as the border czar and yet this is the first trip after 93 days. elizabeth: the drug cartels and the human traffickers, border officials say they effectively control the border where there's gaps in the border fence. there was three drug cartel gunmen who were seen traversing across the rio grande river in tactical gear waving assault rifles at a family fishing in the river. the above of texas says since

march they've seized enough fentanyl to kill 21 million people. so that's going on. let's watch the vice president here. >> do you have any plans to visit the border? >> i, at some point. you know, we are going to the border. we've been to the border. so this whole, this whole thing about the border, we've been to the border. we've been to the border. >> you haven't been to the border. >> and i haven't been to europe. [laughter] i mean, i don't -- i don't understand the point that you're making. >> i said i'm going to go to the border -- >> when are you going to the -- >> the administration has asked -- i'm not finished. [laughter] i said i'm going to the border. elizabeth: okay. we have a preview. she's going to talk more about root causes and the trip to central america. what do you say? >> well, it's no laughing matter. and, you know, we take it seriously. it's a very simple criteria for the presidency, is he making our

country more secure and if prosperous. the answer to that question is is unequivocally, no, and we don't appreciate vice president harris laughing at our situation and other border states. you know, what they need to do is they need to bring some policy proposals like remain in mexico, like the agreements we had in guatemala, honduras and el salvador, and that would help to solve this problem. unfortunately, they've completely abdi abdicated this and, oh, by the way, we see the border patrol chief has been recently let go without even a trip, without looking in the eyes of these agents. it's shameful. elizabeth: all right. congressman august pfluger, thanks for joining us. it's good to see you. >> thank you. elizabeth: let's bring in congressman rick crawford. okay, this is a stunning 180. can you explain this, the president cheers a bipartisan infrastructure deal over five years to fix roads and bridges, but less than two hours later did a 180 and said, listen, i

will veto this bill if the hard-left progressive democrats don't get what they want in a budget reconciliation bill in the senate. i mean, what is going on here? >> well, i told my constituents a long time ago, ooh i've been in this job now for about 11 years, and i told them i would support the president when he's right, oppose the president when he's wrong, and i'll do both with respect. i can tell you right now this president's making it very, very hard to do the latter. i'm doing everything i can to try and be respectful, but when you engage in good faith negotiations with members from the other party and you announce that you have a deal, and two hours later you crawfish on the deal, what are we supposed to do at that point? i mean, there's just a demonstration of bad faith on the part of the president. elizabeth: it was pretty stunning. i mean, listen, the clock is ticking. the august, you know, the july recess, the august recess, janet yellen, treasury secretary, this is a nasty debt ceiling fight coming up in the midterms. >> absolutely.

elizabeth elizabeth joe manchin and krysten sinema are not going to go for bernie sanders' $6 trillion in spending, they're not going to go for it. so then they're going to go into the midterms with what? >> empty handed, and i think they're starting to come to that realization. this is basically, i think it's a foregone conclusion now, and now they're just throwing a whole lot of mud against the wall and hope some of it sticks. i don't know what their path forward is at this point. elizabeth: you know, congressman, the other thing that is going to happen, we're going to be watching is democrats led by house speaker nancy pelosi trying to rebrand things. rebrand to sell it, do a hard sell to the american people. she's calling the childcare tax credit, quote, social security for kids. as if that's enough for americans to go along with. like, you know, paid family leave is suddenly infrastructure. americans aren't buying it. they ain't buying it.

and let me back up. the context is this: the idea that the democrats had an agenda like the, the dr new deal -- fdr new deal or lbj's great society, they have a much smaller majority in the congress. the washington examiner's pointing that out too. >> well, you're right. elizabeth: they don't have anywhere near the -- go ahead. >> yeah, you're right. you mentioned new branding. here's a new term, you know, the president has been in washington for over 50 years. i've never heard this term, certainly not uttered by him, but we're now using this term, human infrastructure. that means we're going to throw it all in a pot, stir it up, call it infrastructure when really only about 10% of it has anything to do with what we have come to regard as traditional infrastructure prompts like highways, roads, bridges, airports and even broadband internet. so how are we going to pay for this, by the way?

elizabeth: we hear you. and, you know, how about listening to the moderates and the centrists -- >> there's quite a few of them, and their voices are being silenced. elizabeth: yeah. we hear you. congressman rick crawford, it's good to see you, come back soon. happening at this hour, a massive rescue operation now underway near if miami. nearly 100 people still missing in the collapse of a building. at least one person dead. steve harrigan is with us live on the very latest with this tragedy. steve. >> reporter: officials are insisting this is still a rescue operation. right now much of that work is taking place underground, underneath the parking deck. they are still digging with multiple urban rescue teams. they said they have heard banging. they're not sure whether that comes from a human or not, but they intend to keep on searching throughout the night. very difficult conditions in there. there is movement of parts of the building which is still partially collapsed. so it's very difficult to detext with dogs and with sounds, but

they intend to keep on going with this collapsed building. as far as the dogs go, at least four are working. they are getting some indications of life this. 99 people still, that's the number we have from officials, still unaccounted for from this collapse. it happened at 1:30 in the morning on thursday. most of the residents asleep in their beds. it's been a real trauma for family members and friends, relatives trying to figure out where their loved ones are. people are calling in to hotlines, and those inside the damaged building have been moved to hotels in the short term by the red cross. back to you. elizabeth: steve harrigan, great reporting. it's great to see you. thank you so much. still ahead, former nypd lieutenant, he is darrin porcher, back with us. a new survey shows blacks are hit hardest by murders and homicides hitting u.s. cities coast to coast. washington insiders say democrats fear they will lose this important voting bloc in the midterms as a result.

that's next when "the evening edit" continues. >> they're going to lose carom of the house and the senate -- control of the house and the senate. and, by the way, let's remember, they weren't rioters, they were mostly peaceful protesters. that's what the democrats said. remember how they went out there and bailed them out, they raised money to bail them out? how is that supporting law enforcement? the democrats showed up and said, sure, a bad apple, but all in all, law enforcement does the a great job, and i thank god every day that they show up. if i call 911, i want somebody to be at the other end of the line. ♪ ♪ thank you. that was fast! one call to usaa got her a tow, her claim paid... ...and even her grandpa's dog tags back. get a quote. trelegy for copd. ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze drifting on by you know how i feel. ♪

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rise in communities of color. so it begs the question in relation to democrats, what are you doing to protect that community in the democrats ran on the defund police method and however. what happened was they lost a lot of the down ballot elections as a result of stating this defund police, and ultimately defunding policece is hurting these communities of color. we look at what happened in minneapolis are, minnesota. they d defunded the police, andt was the citizens of minneapolis that actually sued the city council because they defunded thee police because there was such a meteoric rise in crime. so it begs the question of where does the african-american and the communities of color stand in connection with this movement. elizabeth: yeah, that's a good point. in pittsburgh, 90 of the murder victims are -- 90% of the murder victims are black. nearlypo 60% in indianapolis. 63 cities voted to cut budgets

for police. police are quitting and retiring in record numbers. this is a major democrat voting bloc. what's going to happen? >> i just give you an example. here in new york city the manhattan district attorney dismissed all of the charges against the rioters in the wake of the death of george that maked the city of new york. however, the manhattan d.a. continued to prosecute the officers that were protecting the citizens of new york city. so the politics and the -- politicians and the district attorneys are not setting forth the necessary agenda, and something needs to happen. we need to put a moratorium on this because police officers are our first line of defense in connection with the social contract. and, unfortunately, these politicians just don't get it. elizabeth: yeah, we hear you. let's listen to one politician. he is retired new york city police officer eric adams. he's leading the new york city democrat mayoral i primary. he raises this point. listen to this. >> think about this for a

moment. 9 a 5% -- 95% of victims of shootings are black and brown in new york. 95% of the shootings are are black and brown. elizabeth: so it's gang violence. it's gang violence. it's illegal guns. it's the people who are holding the i guns and doing the shooti. and it's just horrendous that it'sng blacks killing black people. how do weus change this? this is a humanitarian crisis. >> you know, when we look at what's happening and i give you the contrast of new york and chicago, it's the exact same narrative. it's not just gun violence, it's drugun violence. it's v just, it's domestic violence. it's a culmination of different perspectives of criminal activity that are plaguing these communities of color. and the politicians just don't see it. they haven't set forth a. [applause] if bl solution, and -- a plausible solution, and as a result of their inability to

act, these communities are suffering carnage at record paces. elizabeth you know, just passed a bill saying to their cities and towns you defund police, we're going to penalize you, and now we have baltimore voters saying, b basically, that cities -- in cities, residents are saying we're going to recall you. we're going to y recall you if u don't step up. what do you s say to that? >> well, one of the things president biden spoke to was the $350 billion that was contained in the american rescue package was connected to police, police staff thing, so to speak. i think that the president can focus on a targeted a approach that if you don't take specific steps, you will not receive funding from the federal government. and that's what the president do. but on a localized level, i just think that they're all over the place. and we have qualified practitioners in law enforcement, but the politicians are holding them back and

presenting an agenda that's clearly not working. and as a result, we are experiencing peopleng losing thr lives on aop daily basis. more specific to the communities of color. elizabeth: former new york city police lieutenant, he is darrin porcher. thanks for joining us. come back soon. up next, california gubernatorial candidate, he is the former mayor of san diego, ken faulkner, he is here. it's official, the recall of governor gavin newsom is on. californiaom voters, they have d it with newsom's botched and hypocritical lockdowns, rise in crimes, wildfires, blackouts and more. stay with us. >> he has forsaken business owners. he's more focused on buying votes and trying to save himself in the recall which is why you're seeing him, you know, forgiving rent now. $600 stimulus checks, this whole vaccine lottery where he's

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democrat governor gavin newsom, it's on. why are california voters so upset? >> well, it is on. it is official. finish and voters are very upset because this governor continues to fail, absolutely fail at the basics. you know, we saw over 2 million californianss sign that recall petition. by the way, from all parts of the state, a all walks of life, republicans, democrats and independents who are angry and frustrated not just at how this governor handled the pandemic, opening and shutting businesses constantly without being based on science, but because he continues to fail, as i said, at the basics. homelessness skyrocketing in california, the fact that our state is just too expensive, and we havend a governor that doesnt seem to recognize that there's a problem. that's why californians want a change at the top when it comes

to gavin newsom. elizabeth: and the l.a. d.a. going soft on crime, right? californians tell us the tipping point whiz went governor -- was when governor newsom told everyone to stay home, wear masks, but then he went out to a fancy restaurant with health care officials not wearing a mask. and his administration is threatening to throw business owners in jail, and then they're seen dining out, going to wineries. it's the hypocrisy that really is angering people. goad ahead. >> absolutely hypocrisy. and began insome -- gavin newsom who says one thing and always does another. opening and shutting down businesses not based on science. when it comes to the fact that, as we're talking here this evening, our california public schools are still, still not fully reopened. private schools have been open for, you know, basically the entire year in california. why? because those schools report to parents. but yet our public schools that ultimately report to gavin newsom are still not fully

reopened. and so ied think when you starto add all of this up, rising crime in california -- which you were just talking about in the last segment. in fact, wet just got some news yesterday thatst this governor s been misleading californians in terms of wildfire prevention and actually cutting our cal fire budget. you start adding all of that up, that's why californians are eager and anxious to get to the polls to make a change at the top for somebody who's actually going to roll up their sleeves and get our state back on track. elizabeth: let's talk aboutut te wildfires and rolling blackouts because we've been reporting on how the democrat party in sacramento gets a lot of donations from the electric and power industry. okay, so i why is california finally agreeing to former president donald trump's plan? he said clean out the debris, the underbrush in the state's 33 million acres of forest with controlled burnson to stop the wildfires. but when he said that, president biden and democrats said he was

a climate arsonist. listen, these wildfires kill people. they destroyed homes and businesses, triggered rolling blackouts. how can you be so incompetent and not do what trump said to do years ago? >> well, that's exactly right in terms of when you ignore forest management, common sense that's so incredibly important in a state like california, we suffer the h consequence. there are lives at stake here, and that's why californians are so angry. this governor came out and took a lot of credit for a lot of things he didn't even do and actually cut money from our cal fire budget. the consequences on this are absolutely deadly. and so we need a governor that's protect our lives and livelihoods, not what we're getting from gavin newsom. elizabeth: cut it out with the politicking and just do the kitchen table, common sense stuff. i mean, state democrats for two

to three decades refused to clean out forests and remove the underbrush, and then wildfires, of course, raged out of control. the santa ana winds can exceed 60 miles an hour. what's with the lack of common sense? there's a shortage of that. >> it's in very short supply out here in california at the capitol. that's why what we've been talking about, one-party rule in california has been failing our state. it's time to have a above that can actually roll up their -- a governor that can w actually rol up their sleeves and get the job done. when i was mayor of san diego, we actually tackled this. i stood up when i had a hundred protesters outside my house, we didn't defund the police, we increased the budget. that's what we need in sacramento. elizabeth: let's see if you can take on sacramento, that's a whole other world. [laughter] okay, coming up, senate marsha a blackburn on this bombshell, a

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elizabeth: joining us now, tennessee senatr marsha blackburn. senator, so great to have you back on. china had deleted from the wuhan lab. he says it looks like covid-19 was circulating in wuhan before before -- what do you say to those bombshells? >> what we're doing is trying to get further information about this, and a couple of my colleagues and i are working on a letter right now that we're going to find out who they were collaborating with. get information from the scientists. this is the type situation that has to be investigated to see exactly what happened with this covid cover-up that now is

coming into full view. and you see the information that the scientists were aware that the virus -- match up with what they were seeing from covid patients. elizabeth: right. >> the rats that were there, the mice that were in the lab when they said there were no animals that were inside the lab. and, of course, now with this with the genetic sequence being deleted, with that information being taken out of an nih registry. and, you know, this is why we ought not to have been working with the wuhan institute of virology controlled by the communist party in the first place. elizabeth: yeah, senator, you've been all over this. and steve scalise is announcing the gop will be doing a hearing on this in the house. here's the kicker, jesse bloom,

he found this data. he's saying it's more similar to the original at bat coronavirus inside the wuhan lab and not out of the animal and seafood market. in other words, there's a whole spectrum of different coronavirus, so dr. fauci can't authoritatively say it didn't leak. why can't he just be open to that possibility? >> and why didn't he come forward and say to congress we've been involved in this, yes, the president told me to cut it off. i did it anyway. he came back, he said, you know, it's going to be your job or you stop this. admit that and say, you know, i've got concerns about this. we know that they were doing research work on coronaviruses. and we have a lab here in nashville that does research work on coronaviruses. why was dr. fauci not working with the lab here this nashville or the lab -- in nashville or the lab in north carolina that

were doing this type research as opposed to sending all of this money and these funds and trying to trust that the chinese communist party was going to tell them the truth? of course, after our diplomatic scientists started to have issues with what was happening with this lab and secretary pompeo started to investigate this lab, then the what does the chinese communist party do? they said do not come into this lab. they wouldn't let them in. they wouldn't let the world health organization come in. elizabeth: we hear exactly what you're saying. so let's get back to dr. fauci. he testified that we have not been funding gain of funk research, but then the -- gain of function research, but then president trump, at that time, said cut off the funding to ecohealth alliance which is giving money to the wuhan lab. >> that's right. elizabeth: dr. fauci resisted

that saying we don't have authority to do that, but then the nih reinstated the money to ecohealth. so there's all this weird stuff, and by the way, the nih had control of a patent on gain of function research that dr. ross barrett got this 2007. >> well, you're exactly right. and what you see is this the chain of conduct -- is this chain of conduct that dr. fauci instead of giving the information to us, he was lining up with what the chinese communist party was saying in order to protect the wuhan lab and to say they were not responsible for this virus. all of this is absolutely disgusting, and we are going to have to investigate it. dr. fauci ought to step down. and we have to get to the bottom of this so it never happens again. elizabeth: yeah. senator marsha blackburn, thank you for your service on this. we're going to stay on this story. come back soon. coming up, charlie hurt on this news today, d.c. insiders

talking about how the biden administration now wants to ban a chinese energy company's solar products to the u.s. while hunter biden profits off of a chinese fund investing in blacklisted chinese green energy companies. that's next on "the evening edit." ♪ >> the entanglement with china is really terrifying. the money that's come in is mind-boggling. the amount of money that hunter spent is mind-boggling. and the relationship with his father -- is earth. ♪ ♪

♪ elizabeth: let's welcome to the show fox news contributor charlie hurt back with us. okay, this is an interesting flip. the bidenen administration, they're going to announce a ban on solar components from a major chinese company.

they're accused of using forced prison camp labor, but hunter biden has yet to divest his 10% stake in a chinese investment fund that invests in companies blacklisted by the u.s. how do you square this one? >> it's unsquareable, and you really can't make it up, liz. it's astonishing. and your first, initial reaction to this might be the try to applaud the biden administration for finallyhi standing up to a chinese company for taking part in horrible, horrible human rights abuses with the uyghurs. but the problem with that is that's such a small thing compared to the far larger issue of all that china is getting a away with on the global stage today that the biden administration is doing nothing about, they have no intention of doing anything about. and, of course, for the entire, what, 50 years that joe biden part of washington, he's been a lap dog at the feet

of the chinese government. so it's, i'm or sort of reluctant to give too much credit to that. the real question here is what you pointed out, and that is how on earth do you have a ppresident's son who is making millions of dollars off of exactly this kind of company that is committing human rights abuses and far more importantly, undermining the united states and standing up to the united states in ways that the administration is doing absolutely nothing to so much as lift a finger against? elizabeth: yeah. let's go through it. in 2013 hunter biden flies on air force two to beijing. after that he comes a back with a 10% stake in a deal with, lbasically, china's largest -- one of its largest investment funds, backed by the central bank of china. it invests in a chinese technology company that does facial recognition software to

crack down on muslim uyghurs and repress them. it invests in a chinese state-owned nuclear company that was trying to buy u.s. nuclear technology for china's military. and the other one is the fund invests in a rare earth mineral congo that has been accused of human rights abuses and child labor abuses. that's what's going on with hunter biden's investment fund in china. >> yeah. and, of course, all of those things are truly appalling, and it certainly points to significant grift on the part of hunter biden. and also there's not forget that there's a lot of evidence found on hunter biden's laptop that shows the entire biden family, including joe biden, knew and knows exactly what was going on. but let's also remember all of these companies are devoted to undermining u.s. interests. and that's the larger issue here. elizabeth: all right.iz charlie hurt, it's good to see you again. come back soon. you're a a great writer.

>> see you soon. elizabeth: just ahead head, msnbc host brian williams is getting slammed for botched and crude criticism of governor abbott of texas. national borderr patrol council president brandon judd is here with us next. ♪ the rx crafted by lexus. get 1.9% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. discomfort back there? instead of using aloe, on the 2021 rx 350. or baby wipes, or powders, try the cooling, soothing relief or preparation h. because your derriere deserves expert care. preparation h. get comfortable with it.

♪♪ elizabeth: joining us now is national worder patrol council president, he is brandon judd. brandon, it's great to have you back on. okay, msnbc host brian williams is getting criticized for making a crude remark in his attack on texas governor greg abbott over his political stances on the border. what do you say to this? >> he should be criticized. you know, when -- this is typical of the mainstream media. when you don't have the facts, you just make up attacks. you call him political. when in reality, walls have proven to work. san diego, large stretches in arizona, even in texas. walls have driven down illegal immigration. news flash for brian williams, from somebody who actually patrols the border, walls work. come up with facts, use numbers instead of political rhetoric. elizabeth: yeah. europe has walls. asia has walls. russia has walls. let's listen to what brian

williams said. watch this. >> his state doesn't have a dependable power grid, and yet he's going to build his own wall on the border, and he's being richly rewarded by a visit from his guy trump next week. if abbott wants to, say, run for president, he must be more further ensconced in a particular area of trump's anatomy than even ron desantis of florida, and that won't be easy. elizabeth: okay. critics are saying this is pretty disturbing stuff. let's show to the viewer what's happening at the border that brian williams chose not to bring up. it's a humanitarian crisis, it's a national security crisis, it's a health crisis. this is a country that has open arms. it well comes immigrants. people -- welcomes immigrants. people are getting assaulted by traffickers and cartels at the border. he's not reporting what's happening at the border, instead

a personal attack. >> no, of course he's not, because if he gave the public the actual facts, the public would agree with people like president trump that says that border security is absolutely imperative to the security of this nation, to the safety of the american public. he doesn't talk about how we're in the worst crisis in the history of the border patrol. he doesn't talk about the people that are crossing the border across the rio grande that are falling into the river and dying, 17-month-old children are dying because of criminal cartels. he doesn't want the american public to know the truth because if they did know the truth, they would agree with people like president trump. elizabeth: you know, he's previously insulted senator ted cruz, calling him kremlin cruz, even attacked democrat senator joe manchin saying, quote, he's living in a world of his own making, his own imagination. these are nasty, fact-free attacks often coming out of the msnbc anchor here. he previously came urn fire for lying and fabricating stories while he was anchor of nbc

nightly news. he admitted to lying about coming under sniper fire while reporting in iraq in 2003, and he was suspended for that. your broad spectrum view of the coverage of the border. tell us where it's going wrong. >> well, ms -- again, the mainstream media just doesn't want the public to know what's happening, what's really happening on the border, because if they did, they would agree with governor abbott. they would agree with governor desantis, they would agree with president trump, and that's not what the mainstream media wants. they want to dictate what we know, what we believe. and if they can't do that, they're going to come up with political attacks instead of facts. they're not going to tell the public what is really happening because they would agree with people like me. elizabeth: one thing that's really disturbing is the amount of fentanyl pouring across and how much there's so much addiction in the southwest and in california, right?

it's truck addiction that's really -- drug addiction that's leading to gang violence and ravaging our cities. you have record amounts of homicides and murders, many committed by gangs. what do you say? >> and this all stems from the border. all of this crime that is in our cities, this crime that is taking the lives of our children, it all start thes on the border. it starts with criminal cartels. the same criminal cartels that the mainstream media is protecting. the same criminal cartels that the mainstream media doesn't want the american public to know what they are doing. they are make billions of dollars in profit at the expense of our children, at the expense of the american public. our citizens in our great state, in our great cities that could be protected if we would actually have border security. elizabeth: quick ten seconds on kamala harris' trip to the border tomorrow. what do you think's going to happen? >> i don't think that she is going to accomplish anything. i think that she's going to go down there and say that there's

no crisis, and she's just not going to do the things that are necessary to fix the border because there is no political will to do it. elizabeth: brandon judd, thanks for your service to our country. come back soon. 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 evening. ♪ larry: hello, everyone. welcome back to "kudlow, "i'm larry kudlow. so the talk of the town today is an alleged bipartisan day which is being called the bipartisan infrastructure framework. hot off the presses. at this moment, i don't know if the senate gop leadership -- that is, mitch mcconnell, or for that matter a majority of the gop senate conference -- will actually back this infrastructure framework. but five republicans negotiated in good faith, they did a deal with the white house and the president and