branson's high profile trip to space. branson soared 50 miles aboard the new mexico desert on july 11th, but is it really worth half a million bucks for a few minutes of fun? we'll see. that does it for "fox business tonight," "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: okay. we've got the new york state attorney general and one of his accusers, the attorney for charlotte bennett, now firing back as governor cuomo's attorneys today tried to attack the investigation that found he sexually harassed 11 women. this is the same investigation that cuomo got in trouble for for trying to common deer and micromanage from the start. his team also attacking a former aide who filed the first criminal complaint against cuomo. legal observers warn this is a story about about raw power and

the abuse of power. joining us tonight, former federal prosecutor jim trusty, dr. marty makary, former i.c.e. acting director tom homan, congressman rick crawword, daryl -- crawford, daryl ice a saw and joe concha. -- darrell issa. that aide who filed the first criminal complaint says she will take a polygraph test if cuomo will too. he's not answering that. this after cuomo demanded justice brett kavanaugh take a polygraph. also we've got this story, the white house now playing hardball, considering withholding federal dollars and using regulatory powers to get more people vaccinated by private businesses and and more. now "the washington post" says this is a, quote, dramatic escalation. the labor secretary now endorsing vaccine mandates and vaccine passports, but the cook report says biden's approval rating is dropping amid

confusing, mixed messages, also government overreach and fears that restrictions will put the recovery in reverse. to the president's covid double standard at the border, authorities now warning illegals from more than 100 countries are bringing in variants. homeland security in a court briefing warning they may need to shut border facilities because of the serious outbreak of covid in those facilities and border officials testing positive having to be hospitalized. also we've got more on that deputy sheriff who collapsed after being exposed to the lethal drug fentanyl from a suspect at the border. plus, a senate brawl has broken out. it's brought the infrastructure bill to a screeching halt. and now we've got this story, the far left is putting biden in his own george h.w. bush read my lips, no new taxes controversy. that's the same one that got clinton elected where george h.w. bush lost. also outraged 9/11 families now

telling president biden stay away from the 20th anniversary commemoration events of 9/11 unless you release classified government evidence you promised on the campaign trail. they believe that evidence links saudi arabia's top leaders to the 9/11 attacks. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. we are beginning this, with this story, new york governor andrew cuomo's attorneys going after the investigation and the credibility of the accuser who filed the first criminal complaint against him. listen to. >> this woman's story which is stated as a fact in the report is false. the documentary evidence does not support what she said. elizabeth: okay. we've got this story coming in too, the state attorney general

is now firing back and so is accuser charlotte bennett. look who's joining us, jim trusty, your take on cuomo's team of lawyers today. what do you think? >> this is what lawyers do. you know, you pick apart individual complaints here, you've got a chance of sowing some reasonable doubt. the problem for cuomo aside from other scandals that he's going to be inviting into the story is there's just too much corroboration of too many people for most of the citizens of new york and elsewhere to ignore it and pretend it didn't happen. elizabeth: you know, we've got a new finding from quinnipiac saying 70% say, yes, he should resign, that being new yorkers saying that. congressman, a majority saying that he should be criminally investigated. you know, your response to the state attorney general saying that there's a mountain of evidence corroborating what the

11 accusers are saying and also basically charlotte bennett's team is, they're saying there's 1100 citations that document audio recordings and evidence supporting what these 11 women are saying. what do you say? >> well, we know there was all this evidence. there's real time tracking of this. there were report, there were text messageses of some of the accusers who sent it almost immediately after being sexually assaulted by the governor. so to say that there's no evidence is ridiculous by his team. and to talk about, you know, there are district attorneys looking into this. there was a criminal complaint filed today by one of the accusers in albany county. he's going to have his day in court. there's going to be a jury of his peers deciding whether or not he's guilty criminally. but politically, governmentally, the governor, he's done. he needs to resign. there's no question about it, that's why i believe the 70% in

the quinnipiac is correct. all i'm hearing is i can't believe he hasn't resigned yet. elizabeth: you know, do we, do we have jim trusty back with us? okay. let's stay with you, mr. garbarino. the victim who filed the first criminal complaint. she told investors she was taking uncontrollably -- investigators during the interaction where governor cuomo groped her, and she feared that she would be faired if senior cuomo aides heard that she had talked about this allegation. that's about retaliation. that's the most serious charge, one of the most serious charges we're talking about here, right? >> absolutely. and it's -- and i hate to say it, but it's no surprise. i spent eight years in the state legislature in albany, and everyone always talked about, you know, you better go along with what governor cuomo says, or he's going to come out against you. that's why a lot of these women did not come forward, i believe, right away, because they feared retaliation. he has some very low call people

around him -- loyal people around him that will do pretty much anything he wants, he says. so it doesn't surprise me that she feared for her job, it doesn't surprise me that a lot of these women didn't come forward sooner. this was just, this was business as usual in the new york governor's office. elizabeth: you know, the team is trying to raise reasonable do you want in order to keep governor cuomo in power. that's what legal experts are saying. we're now seeing six district attorneys probing andrew cuomo over the findings, the criminal probes here that he sexually harassed and assaulted 11 women including 9 current and former state workers. sir, there was a lot of complaints today from his team about the process of this. the state a.g. is saying she approved this independent investigation, and from the beginning andrew cuomo tried to micromanage and take over the investigation. only after he was criticized for that did he back off.

can you talk about that? >> well, yeah. i mean, when he first started, he wanted to appoint the judge or judge's husband, he wanted to pick the people who were going to investigate him. it was, you know, it's just -- like i said, he wants total control over everything that happens. and they talk about about -- this isn't a criminal trial right now. this was, what the state legislature's going to do, the state assembly, they have impeachment proceedings. is they don't need -- he doesn't need, that's not going to get him off. you need 76 votes, and it's not just this. they're looking into a lot of other things, so i think he's finished -- elizabeth: yeah, they're looking into, you know, yeah, let's talk about this quickly, there's also an fbi/doj probe into the cover-up of nursing home deaths that were reported through the government, his use of stays workers to work on his pandemic memoir that he got $5 million for and also used, using state health workers to do vip priority covid testing of his

family and friends including his brother, chris cuomo. okay, let's watch the d.a. in albany talking about this, asking potential victims to come out and reach out to their team. watch. >> to those of you who did not come forward but are now inspired to come forward and cooperate in criminal investigation, please reach out to our office. elizabeth: let's talk to jim trusty about this. jim is back on the phone with us, former federal prosecutor. do you expect more women to step forward now, jim? what do you think? >> i think there's a real likelihood because he's had such a lengthy career in politics that there's other folks that just, you know, basically decided out of personal reasons they weren't going to step forward. i will say this though, liz, i'm never in love with the notion of prosecutors kind of setting up tip lines for old complaints. it invites a lot of mischief. it tends to bring out some of the nut cases that really aren't the victims like the ones that

are in this report. so it's kind of treacherous territory. but i think the bottom line is that governor cuomo's made a calculation that he's going to go down swinging, and it's going to invite much more concrete evidence against him on a number of fronts. elizabeth: we hear you. maybe more than just a tip line. it may be women stepping forward. and also this, jim, the aide who filed the first criminal complaint against governor cuomo saying that, you know, he sexually assaulted her by groping her, she told her attorney she would be willing to take a polygraph lie detector examination, and she would like the governor to take one as well. but cuomo's team won't answer that. they're saying this is a ploy to get media attention. remember, andrew cuomo said justice brett kavanaugh should take a polygraph test. what do you say to that? you know, there's also a thing about retaliation i want to talk about. go ahead. >> sure. yeah, on the first point, there's some delicious irony, right? this is a guy that was throwing

out polygraphs, and, frankly, there's a reason they're not admissible in court usually. they're not perfectly reliable. if there's somebody that can tend to pass a polygraph, it tends to be a sociopath. and i wonder how that plays out for the governor. i don't think anyone can rightly accuse any of the victims of dying for the limelight here. i think it's very clear that was a major point as to why there's delayed reporting. they didn't want the attention of either the governor or the public at large. elizabeth: okay. you know, by the way, a request for a polygraph test was made by that first d.a. who filed a criminal complaint back in march. it's a retaliation that is also violations of federal and state law. the retaliation against the women where governor cuomo and his team were basically drafted an op-ed, you know, attacking lindsey boylan, another accuser, also releasing and leaking her job personnel records to the media. we've been reporting on this

since it happened. what do you think of those charges? because that's sick. >> well, you know what? if they are not independent charges, and i think drafting the op-ed would be a hard one to call an independent criminal charge, but if they're not rising to the level of obstruction, they're still powerful indicia of guilt. it's just like when you run away from the crime scene. doing that type of thing will speak to any sort of fact finder whether it's a judge or a jury. and one thing, liz, that really hasn't got much play is when they found out these reports were being made, the cuomo plan was to try to set up the complainant and get them to say, you know, incriminating things or things that hurt their credibility which is pretty amazing, pretty nasty concept, right? that he's getting on the phone and trying to intimidate or trick women. melissa de rosa characterized it as not working well. so these folks packed --

elizabeth: okay, so that, to you, is indicative of guilt. in other words, retaliation, what you just talked about too, and retaliation, that's an example of guilt. final word, jim trusty. >> yeah, absolutely. look, the whole picture is a terrible picture. one last thing i'd say from kind of the courthouse perspective on these things, liz, when drifting into another scenario that might sound like bill cosby where we have individual complaints of sexual abuse, and the big issue is going to be are they heard together or are they heard separately. and so that'll be interesting to see how that plays out. elizabeth: okay. congressman and jim trusty, congressman, we'll give you the final word next. it's good to have you on. good to see you. thanks for joining us. up next, dr. marty makary joins us, the white house doubling down saying they will use their regulatory powers, even withholding federal funding for, in order to get private businesses to vaccinate more

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♪ elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show johns hopkins university professor of public health, he is dr. marty makary. it's great to have you on the show what do you think of the white house now, the labor secretary's now endorsing vaccine man deaths, -- mandates, vaccine passports, the white house is talking about using their regulatory powers to go after private businesses to vaccinate more americans. "the washington post" says this is a dramatic escalation. what do you say about it? >> you know, igniting the culture wars and making a strong partisan divide is not helpful. we need to encourage people to get vaccinated who don't have immunity, and anytime a politician says something, it's immediately going to be met with a counter-reaction. remember, the two groups that have very low rates of vaccination are those who are conservative and value liberty maybe distrustful of government and african-americans in the united states. and both of those groups right now, we can win more bees with honey than fire.

and anytime the government says anything, it hurts the cause. if politicians never said anything, people would listen to their local doctors, and we would have a much higher vaccination rate right now. elizabeth: we hear you. government union workers and the teachers unions are saying we don't want vaccine mandates for us, even the largest health care union is saying workers shouldn't have to be vaccinated to keep their jobs, but now dr. fauci saying there's a game-changer. when these vaccines are finally approved by the fda, it could provide legal cover for vaccine mandates. what do you say to that? >> we're going to see more mandates come about once the fda issues full approval, and they signaled that would be in december or january. people got very frustrated. many of us have been saying it's overdue anyway, and the fda this week said we're probably going to do it very soon. so we're going to see the fda full approval come soon. that's overdue.

but the pluses and-s of that are that ---s of that are you going to see a lot of mandates get instituted. and i think when you move from a strong recommendation to a mandate, you instantly politicize the issue of vaccination, and i think it can be counterproductive. and, remember, these mandates ignore natural immunity from prior infection, one reason why many are distrustful. elizabeth: yeah, there's a backlash. they're confused. we understand that the data is eau involving and the -- evolving and the rules and regulations are changing because of that. but i don't think people understand, experts and scientists keep telling them that a lot of what's happening is they're using models. they're not actual blood sampling like britain is doing to find out how many people have antibodies, right? so we're relying on models like breakthrough people who are vaccinated because of variants, but we're talking about thousands of people that they're only finding with breakthroughs because they're vaccinated

getting sick when we're talking about tens of millions of people vaccinated, right? so we're really relying on just models here, right? >> that's right. the one thing we really need from the cdc that they have really never provided is very good prevalence estimates on natural immunity and the power of natural immunity. ed today they released a study that appears to be completely cherry-picked in order to advance their agenda. they made it sound as though natural immunity was not as good as vaccinated immunity, but it shows 0.09% of those who had prior infection went on to test positive, and we don't know if any of those had symptoms or got sick. so they misrepresent data frequently, and i think it leads to the distrust out there. elizabeth: yeah, epidemiologists, other doctors saying stop with the fear mongering, cnn and msnbc, get down to the facts about variants

breaking through to the vaccinated. and we hear you about antibodies and also the success of vaccination. we just want to to get the story straight and not get people fearful and upset because, listen, these covid vaccines, even the guy who helped invent them, the mrna vaccine, he's saying, yeah, there are side effects people are concerned and worried about. just listen to people, stop bullying. okay, dr. marty makary, thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate it. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: up next, the president's covid double standard at the border. border officials, scientists are saying they're bringing in variants but homeland security now warning in a court briefing there is a, quote, significant increase in illegal immigrants testing positive and border officials getting hospitalized. former acting i.c.e. director tom homan joins us next. >> these cartels do not care about the safety of these people. they will do what it takes to make as much money, and these people are expendable. ♪ ♪

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scene is obvious as deputy david and his partner, field training officer corporal scott crane search a vehicle and find drugs. >> yeah, it's powder -- >> it's okay to -- [inaudible] >> reporter: the deputy got too close to a drug that can kill from just a few particles being breathed in or absorbed through the skin. he almost immediately collapsed. fortunate for him, corporal crane recognized the effects of fentanyl and used a narcan spray. >> i need narcan! >> reporter: he overdosed a third time on the way to the hospital but, thankfully, is alive today. according to the centers for disease control, fentanyl overdoses killed around 60,000 people in 2020. 60,000 people not as lucky as

the deputy. liz? elizabeth: jonathan hunt, thank you so much for your reporting there. joining me now, former acting i.c.e. director tom homan. tom, this is a shocking and disturbing story. what's your reaction? >> you and i have talked about it before. the border crisis, this humanitarian crisis, as we discussed, it's taken up to 40-50% of the border patrol agents off the line to care for the families, and that's when the drugs flow through. there's already been over 90,000 overdoses of fentanyl here in the united states, and it's directly related to the border. this is not my opinion and based on my reading of intelligence reports. the dea came out and said over 90% of the fentanyl in the united states has come across the southwest border. so this humanitarian crisis that was created by the biden administration has created a public safety crisis not just in -- and a public health crisis not just in covid, but in fentanyl overdoses in this country. elizabeth: right. and it's hitting states around the country.

the coast guard just seized an historic $1.4 billion worth of cocaine and marijuana in the caribbean sea. chuck grassley, senator, saying ms-13 gang arrests are are plummeting by about 75% on average. and then we've got that story and we've got this, homeland security admitting in a court brief that and warning that significant increases of illegals with covid-19 may force them to shut down border facilities that are overcrowded and border officials are getting hospitalized. now, biden campaigned and has said that he is a wartime president dealing with the virus. finish right? and he's basically saying, equating this to soldiers dying in a war, equating that to the number of people dying from covid. what's with the covid double standard at the border? >> well, it's hypocrisy of the highest levels. let me go back to the ms-13 question. the reason arrests are down? because i.c.e. has been

decapitated. they can't go arrest gang members anymore. the gang member has to be convicted of a serious crime or has to be convicted of a serious gang-related incident. so as far as gang operations, they're virtually nonexistence now because the biden administration changed i.c.e.'s priorities which is, again, a public safety crisis. as far as covid, you're exactly right. look, president biden, whether people like it or not, he's complicit into knowingly importing covid case us across that border. -- cases across that border. we know there's 7500 people in mcallen, and that's just one border town. there's other towns in texas where aliens are being released. we're not even talking about california and arizona. thousands of people have been released in the united states with covid, and this administration knows it. they've actually bought them plane tickets and bus tickets all over the united states infected with covid. i.c.e. right now has over 1200 cases in detention, and let's remember, i.c.e. gets a very, very small percentage of the people coming across the border. 95% of them are released.

so covid is being imported into this country because of these open border policies. elizabeth: and the issue too is it's overcrowded facilities, overcrowded, packed trucks, vans and cars where migrants are getting sick along the way, not just sexually assaulted and killed. thousands have been killed on the way to the border through the years. as they try to cross illegally. it's exceedingly dangerous. now you've got henry cuellar with, texas democrat, saying, listen, you've got to stop it with the border because you're spreading covid-19 throughout the country, and it's unfair to the border neighborhoods and communities. you have democrat judges saying, listen, you've got to come down here to hidalgo county, mr. president. you broke it, you own it. what you're doing is creating a really dangerous situation at the border. what do you say to even democrats saying get on the stick here and fix it? >> henry cuellar's a patriot,

right? he's a blue dog democrat. politics are put aside. first of all, he's a big supporter of the border patrol, and let's remember over 20 cbp agents have died of covid on the front lines serving their nation. they're always in harm's way, but having this open borders and covid coming across the border just makes their job more dangerous. henry cuellar's right on point. this isn't about open borders, this isn't about gangs and ms-13 coming across that a border. you and i discussed it many times, 300,000 gotaways already this year. 300,000 people. how many of them have covid? how many of them gang members? we don't know. elizabeth: all right. tom homan, thanks for your service to our country. thanks for coming on our show. you're watching the fox business network. you're coming into the bottom of the hour. up next, congressman rick crawford on the senate brawl that has brought the infrastructure bill to a screeching halt. this as the far left is accused of putting biden in his own

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♪ elizabeth: jibbing us now, house transportation and infrastructure ranking member, he is congressman rick crawford. it's great to have you back on. okay, there's a senate brawl, it looks like the infrastructure bill is coming to a screeching halt other the debt blowout, pork, cryptocurrency. is this thing going to a pass? what do you think? >> well, it doesn't sound like it. i mean, i was hopeful that the senate would be able to to come up with a bipartisan bill, but the more you look at it, the more you can see it's just not

something that i think we're going to be able to support as republicans, and i think rank and file americans would also say, look, i'm less concerned about partisan nature and for more thanked about -- and more concerned about the value it delivers in terms of investment in roads, bridges, airports, inland waterways, ports, rural broadband, you name it, traditional infrastructure. and we've gotten way off the mark, and i think that's what the senate is running into. elizabeth: yeah, we hear you. congressman, that cbo score saying it's going to add more than a quarter trillion to the deficit over ten years, i mean, a lot of republican senators say, whoa, wait a second. and charles schumer wanted to bring it to a vote tomorrow and over the weekend, and he needs ten republican senators, he needs 60 votes. it looks like it ain't gonna happen. and they're talking about overall -- yeah, go ahead. take that on. >> well, 2,000 pages, you know, nobodies has time to read that. -- nobody has time to read that. you mentioned the cbo score, a quarter of a trillion dollars

over ten years, that's probably a conservative estimate in the accounting gimmicks they use to come up with that figure. i don't think they're going to be able to drive the revenue to be able to even address that. we're talking about potentially trillions of dollars of debt. we know that we've got 1.2 trillion they're proposing, most of which is not paid for and then what's even worse is the president has indicated, he walked this back, but he accidentally let it slip that he wouldn't sign it if they weren't packaged together, the $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill along with the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. elizabeth: yeah. >> we can't have $4.7 trillion in unfade-for spend -- unpaid-for spending. elizabeth: we hear you. fed chair jerome powell, larry summers, warren we warren buffet have all warned about inflation, right? now critics are saying the far left is putting biden in his own george h.w. bush read my lips no new taxes controversy. that got clinton elected.

and when you talk about adding to the debt can, it's nearly $10 trillion, right, that they want in just six months' time. and that's equal to the amount of debt that was incurred under the obama administration's entire eight years. so, you know, this looks like the biden -- should we put a pin in the calendar and say this is the date, this is the time when the biden agenda fell apart? >> well, it looks that way, and i think we've forgotten the lesson of history. i'm old enough to remember this, i was a child during the '70s. i remember the carter administration and the runaway inflation, runaway interest rates and what that did to our economy. and really the pieces that president reagan had to put back together in the early '80s to get us back on a trajectory that we could overcome that, that's kind of where we are right now. and i think young people have forgotten that lesson in history. certainly, biden was around and may have even been a participant in recommending those policies, and he hasn't learned. here we are again, he said he wouldn't a raise taxes on lower

income americans and, guess what? inflation is a tax, and it's a tax particularly punitive to lower income americans. so that's exactly what he's done. elizabeth: you know, there's a fight where democrats, top democrats, the vulnerable ones say they're going the lose their seats. this is what's happening behind the scenes in the democrat party. they're talking about if they had to run today, the democrats would lose control of the house. so there's this fight over whether inflation is really picking up. in other words, it's natural because you're coming out of an economic shutdown so prices look like they're going up artificially. economists on wall street say, no, inflation is going up because you're printing more money at the federal reserve, and you're spending more with less goods being produced in the overall economy even without a pandemic. so that's what the debate is. where do you come down, final word. >> well, so you're right, inflation is rising higher than

your rate of pay gains. so, obviously, your spending power goes down, you your inflan rate goes up. as you mentioned, printing money faster than we can spend it. one of this is a recipe for economic prosperity. elizabeth: it's hitting the dollar. that's the issue. congressman rick crawford, great to see you. come back soon. >> you bet. thanks for having me. elizabeth:9 up next, joe concha on this story: outraged 9/11 families now in a shocking move telling president biden, stay away from upcoming 9/11 events commemorating the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack. they say you can only come if you release, as you promised you would, classified government evidence they believe links top saudi arabian officials to the attacks. you're watching the fox business network. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ elizabeth: back with us now, "the hill" media columnist and fox news contributor joe concha. joe, what's your take on the nearly 1800 americans affected by 9/11, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, they are putting out a statement saying, president biden, don't participate in the 20th anniversary memorial events of 9/11 unless you declassify u.s. evidence they say shows a hinge between saudi arabia and the attacks -- a link? what do you say to those? >> i say that the president should hold his promise that he promised during the campaign, and that's why this letter came about from these 1800 people. the letter is really moving, quote: we cannot in good and with veneration to those lost, sick and injured welcome the president to our hallowed grounds until he fulfills his commitment. this is the president who said he would do this, and yet today the press secretary, jen psaki, was as clear as mud when asked about the story in the press

briefing today, saying that mr. biden remains committed to his pledge he made to 9/11 families but would not say whether the administration would release these documents. and, look, it's understood that we do business with sabia, major -- sabia, right? but blood is thicker than oil right now, and these families have had to think about this every day. one friend of mine, for example, i've known her since grade school, and i remember the funeral for her husband who died in the twin towers, and i also knew him from high school as well, they were high school sweethearts, and she was pregnant with his child, and it was the saddest thing you'll ever see. she deserves to know if a foreign government was partially responsible for those attacks as do the nearly 3,000 who perished that day, elizabeth. elizabeth: yeah. and the families are saying, the 9/11 families are saying first responders, firemen, cops, people who died in the towers, they're saying they've been sending letters and making phone

calls to the white houses and that the president is ignoring them. and what they're saying is that there were official testimonies, government officials were testifying early on after attacks that, yeah, there is evidence that top leaders in saudi arabia are connected to the 9/11 attacks, and they want more information about that. they want justice, that's what they're seeking. what do you say? >> you give justice to your citizens. you don't protect the saudi government. it's 20 years later, by the way. look, it's the same thing, elizabeth, with the assassination of john f. kennedy. many of the documents surrounding that assassination still haven't been released, and it's all we hear because it's in the name of national security. that was, what, 1963? what do you mean national security at this point when we're talking 57, 58 years later? so the president better fulfill this promise that he made, or it's going to, it's going to completely mar 9/11 because you know what the news cycle's going to look like then, you're going to have all these families

saying we don't want with joe biden, we don't want the president to participate in these ceremonies, and it's just going to cloud the day. and that's usually a positive connotation, but 20 years, we should mark this without any distractions, and if the president doesn't follow through, it's going to be one big distraction and disrespectful, for that matter. elizabeth: families are saying as, again, first responders, victims' families, they're saying don't show up in new york, at the pentagon or in pennsylvania. are they going to protest? what's going to happen? final word. >> i think that they will say that he is not welcome, and they're going to do a lot of probably television interviews telling the president do not come, and the president's going to have to answer for why he won't release these documents after he committed to doing so. elizabeth: joe concha, great to see you. come back soon. >> have a great weekend. take care. elizabeth: up next, congressman darrell issa from house foreign affairs. israel now saying iran is ten weeks from a nuclear weapon. and we have this story,

republican lawmakers sending a letter to the biden administration saying stop doing an end run around congress on iran. give us all your communications you've had with iran about getting rid of iran's sanctions. we're hearing first about it from iran, not from you. that story next. ♪♪ ♪ all by yourself.♪ - oh. - what? rain. cancel and stay? done. go with us and get millions of felixble booking options. expedia. it matters who you travel with. ♪ ♪ ♪ common love isn't for us ♪ ♪ we created something phenomenal ♪ ♪ don't you agree? ♪ ♪ don't you agree? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ow! ♪

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elizabeth: back with us now congressman darrell issa, it's great that you want i run is ten weeks from nuclear weapon and we have them fiery 19 rockets, we would see that in 15 years, the iron dome intercepted them but what do you think of the story. >> i think this provocative attack by their surrogate says a lot about what they are doing and will do once they get a nuclear weapon, israel doesn't act if america who hasn't acted doesn't change the direction iran will have a nuclear weapon, they already have advances in their missiles capable of sending them where they want to send them and it's only minutes to israel from iran. as you know you don't intercepted nuclear weapon as

you would a conventional rocket. elizabeth: that's it apart and point you just made, there is that and also there is talk about the biden administration lifting sanctions and republicans are demanding more from answers there saying we hear about the first from iran and not from you. that's us into the associated press report asking the state department officials what are you doing about iran's terrorism. >> what have you guys done what is this administration done since january to make it clear other than getting up and condemning them what action says is the administration done to show me your disapproval or to punish them or however, whatever word you want to use, what have you done to make it clear for them that this is not

acceptable. >> matt as you said yourself iran has been under heavy sanctions since 2018, both sanctions every single one of them remains in place we have not removed. >> they've gotten worse and you guys haven't done anything, you lifted some sanctions. >> we have not lifted. >> in new york you went back on the snap act. elizabeth: what you said about congressman? >> clearly they have lifted sanctions and reversed the direction that president trump did instantly then awkward to pick another target like soleimani to take out to for their terrorism and they're not taking other nuclear ambitions of this country, just the opposite they say they're going back into negotiations to slow the development, slow, not stop, iran has been terrorist since 1979 they have completely destroyed the country of lebanon

and terrorize the people of israel since that time and they've done so without a nuclear weapon once again a nuclear weapon it won't just be israel and lebanon it'll be the golf neighbors, the actual shipping routes that are critical for oil and natural gas and quite frankly it'll be the rest of the world and that's what their ambition is and they say for all those years since 1979. and the mages very well be within ten weeks if neither israel will act in a pretty comfortable that the u.s. has no intentions on acting. elizabeth: congressman your take on the new president of iran he says alter hardline he is accused by human rights groups around the world of executing and killing 4000 political prisoners through the year. he's pretty aggressive, this is what republicans are saying,

give us your communication in the white house for what you're telling iran because iran has more information than we do about what you're doing to live sanctions in order to get another iran nuclear deal in place, your final word. >> iran is doing harder and harder against its own people and they stand in fear of their people and not to change subjects but when people are rising in the streets of havana in this administration stay silent there really sending the signal around the world that people at liberty will not have the united states behind them and certainly including a real. elizabeth: you've talked to about the protested iran that was quashed as well with the silence from officials here, thank you, congressman darrell issa, thank you for speaking out. thank you so much for watching i am elizabeth macdonald you been watching "the evening edit", that does it for us we hope you

have a good weekend, join us again monday night. ♪ ♪ ♪. larry: hello everyone, welcome to "kudlow", i'm larry kudlow, it is friday folks, let's give some random thoughts on money and politics in life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, first up our friend senator bill hagerty who was kind enough to come on her show a number of times refuses to vote for unanimous consent to close down for the debate on amendments to the official triple, why is