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look even worse. why was the general talking to nancy pelosi? also this debate who really seriously besides media hysterics that trump was going to attack china? all this as u.s. intelligence warning, al qaeda in a little less than a year's time could attack the u.s. from inside of afghanistan. u.s. intelligence is warning this is a conservative estimate. north and south korea are shooting off missiles. joining me retired general keith kellogg, monica crowley from the council on foreign relations, former congressman jason chaffetz, house budget ranking medical per, he is congressman jason smith, rnc official harmeet dhillon. retired major general nick maguire. we have new numbers from defense officials showing the afghanistan evacuees flagged for potential terror ties higher than the reported numbers. fight over booster shots and fda

mandates. they decided not to take a stance on pfizer's booster shot. we have the update. white house limiting restricting antibody drug shipments to states that desperately need them, notably in the south. why? fears of shortages. we have that story. the controversy over china, getting nih deheating from databases that show how the pandemic could have began including a lab leak. democratic socialist alexandria ocasio-cortez said her tax the rich dress was talking about the conversation. how about this, will aoc discuss a new joint committee taxation on report that the house democrats tax hikes will slam lower income blue-collar workers, making just 30,000 a year? what is next for california after big business helped democrat positive gavin newsom acrowd recall? exit polls show strong voter resentment against newsom

policies. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. okay, let's break down this controversy over the joint chiefs of staff chair general mark milley. the white housedown flaying allegations in a new book loaded with anonymous sources by bob woodward and robert costa saying that it was routine, the white house saying it was routine for the general to call his counterpart in china. joining us now former national security advisor to vice president mike pence, retired lieutenant-general keith kellogg. general, great to have you back on. what is your reaction to this controversy? >> liz, thanks for having me on tonight. i think there is a lot of clean-up in aisle three going on right now and you can see it with the spokesman from the defense department and talking about what happened on the 8th, i'm looking really the 8th of january, what mark

milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs did. he has got three rolls roles he is principle military advisor to the president, principle military advisor to the section of defense, principal security advisor to the. under section 2, article ii under the constitution, there is only one commander-in-chief. at the time was donald j. trump f he went out on his own, the acting secretary of defense he was not informed what happened on theth of january. mark milley did it on his own. he is wrong. that is not something he should be doing unless talking to the president, secretary of defense or national security advisor which he did not do. elizabeth: go ahead. >> i think when you look, when you look at the responsibility that he has got out there and civilian control of the military, that is a process. there is no set template you follow but the process is, he reports to the president and

talks to the president before he talks to anybody else. elizabeth: so you know there is talk of him breaking the chain of command. that is what the media is going on about. he is not even in the chain of command. he is technically outside it. there is always, by the way why is this book coming out now? all this talk that trump operated outside of the rule of law when it looks like general milley was doing that? >> yeah. the reason i'm keying in on 8 january, we all know what was happening in washington, d.c. and for him to reach out to the chinese who are an adversary and talking about nuclear strikes or command-and-control, he had to know was implying that there was a concern about the command-and-control we had in washington, d.c., that it might be going off the rails. that is the furthest from the truth. i was in the oval, liz. i was in the west wing when all of this was going on. everybody was in control. it was a very calm environment.

was the president mad about some things? sure. you get mad, i get mad, everybody gets mad going forward. i've seen him in tough crisis situations and he was very calm and assured make those decisions. if you don't believe me, think about what we did with soleimani, think about what we did with baghdadi, think about what we did with isis, what we did with the syrian strikes when they used nerve gas. the president made the hard decisions at all times. milley said i'm concerned about the situation here, i reach out to the chinese on my own, tell them don't worry about it, it is all under control. he was way out of line doing it, if the reports are true, again a caveat, if the reports are true, then he should not be chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. elizabeth: we hear you. why was he talking to nancy pelosi at all? trump said, i was never going to attack china. why, does anybody, it makes d.c. look like bonkers, like they're nuts down there. does anybody really seriously believe trump was going to

attack china? >> now look, liz, i'm sure the former president will get mad, will get mad if i said this, president trump was a reluctant warrior. i say that with great admiration as a former mill dairy guy. he would not use military force or commit american american men and women to battle unless he was assured we would get the job done and i really, really admired that with him. he knew what it meant when we put our men and women in a conflict situation. look, we were the only administration, liz, that did not start a major war in the last five administrations. he didn't do that. so i when i say that, again, reluctant warrior, i'm very proud to say that about him. he wasn't going to do that. i tell you three words i never heard in the month of january, i didn't hear about china, i didn't hear about russia, and i didn't hear about nukes. he never talked like that at all. elizabeth: we hear you. you know we've got republican senators marco rubio, senator rand paul, even retired

lieutenant-general vin man, he is calling for milley to step down. listen to john kennedy on this. watch this. >> based on his behavior in the last year or two we don't have a military leader. we've got a politician. my democratic friends will probably weep sweep that under the rug. i'm ready to hold hearings. i think general milley has a lot of explaining to do. he should stop honking on like a goose about white rage and make our country for secure. elizabeth: it seems overly political for a general to be involved in stuff like that. it sounds so crazy what is going on in washington. it makes us look crazy to the rest of the world. and by the way we've got north korea, south korea, shooting off missiles. we've got intelligence officials warning al qaeda could attack the u.s. from afghanistan within

a year's time and that is the conservative estimate. that is what defense intelligence agency officials warning that. so this is, that is going on with general milley while also these serious threats are happening. your final word, general. >> yeah. well the senator just nailed it and i think when you lose vined man you lost it if he against what you're doing out there. i think mark milley went beyond the bounds. he actually has become very political. he ail edge nate ad large part of the population out there. he needs to look real hard what he has been doing. the senator's right. this administration is going to right right buy it hope two weeks you will forget about it. he should have addressed this right away. milley should have come to the press right away. the fact he is not doing it for two weeks does not speak well f somebody accused me of treason i would be out front like today. elizabeth: general keith kellogg, thank you for your service to our country.

again always great having you on. up next, council on foreign relations member monica crowley, she will take on the general milley controversy and washington debate. what is taking so long for the biden administration to designate the taliban as a terror organization? the story next. >> when secretary blinken says they have leverage against the taliban i don't know what leverage he is talking about quite frankly. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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behavior on the part of the chairman of joint chiefs of staff. elizabeth: known, reportedly a to be a major leaker in washington, d.c. we'll stay on the store. monica, let's turn to this, senate republicans including marco rubio, senator joni ernst, senator tuberville, repeatedly asking why is the biden administration taking so long to designate the taliban as a terror organization? >> so the afghan taliban, liz, is designated as a specially designated global terrorist group but they're not designated as a foreign terrorist organization which is the next level up. marco rubio and a group of gop senators today introduced a bill that would direct the secretary of state and the state department to up that designation to an fto why they have been dragging their feet is anyone's guess, liz but i suspect that this administration has made some deals with the

taliban prior to our exit and we don't know how many deals might be already underway or under consideration going forward, which explains why maybe the administration is a bit resistant to this. we'll see how they come down on it but just the other day, liz, the administration was talking about how business-like and professional the taliban is. elizabeth: why normalize relations with the taliban when they attack women and children and brutalize them, killing them? i mean it is the haqqani and al qaeda network. the bbc reporting taliban factions literally had a brawl inside of the presidential palace in kabul and that al qaeda haqqani faction won. they're known terrorists. they brutalize people. monica, let's move on to this. lawmakers are getting really frustrated with the white house topspin and denial of reality. we reported that quinnepiac showing the president's approval rating hitting an historic low of 42%.

half the country disapproves of him. secretary of state antony blinken testifying that the real number of americans, the white house abandoned behind terror lines, quote, is in the thousands. they were saying it is in the hundreds. let's watch senator ron johnson here. >> if i were just to read your testimony, not having watched any news, i would literally this was a smashing success but i do read the news as most americans do and we realize this was a complete debacle and i think what concerns me the most among many things is that the detachment from reality. same denial of reality for example, on the border. a self-inflicted wound, a crisis created by president biden's policies that have completely thrown open our borders and yet the administration denies we have a problem at the border. elizabeth: you know what we're seeing now? we're still seeing nancy pelosi wanting to keep the country focused on the capitol riots.

we have major problems in this country. your reaction to what senator johnson said? >> good for senator johnson. he is exactly right. liz, when you mentioned the president's job approval number cratering, it is because of a whole range of issues. afghanistan of course is one but also you have the economy really slowing. you have skyrocketing inflation. you have a crime crisis. you have got a wide open border. in fact two of those issues, the wide open border, the catastrophe in afghanistan, are leading us perhaps down the road to perhaps another terror attack on homeland soil. i hope i'm wrong about that. you can see the problems coming down the pike. nobody in this administration seems ready, willing able to stop it before it happens. the american people do not like to lose wars, particularly ones where there is incalcuable sacrifice on part of so many. they don't like americans left

behind. while so many things are driving biden's numbers down and forcing him to hemorrhage political capital, especially as he goes into these negotiations over these massive spending bills, the american people are aware of what is happening and they see that this is pretty much a deliberate torpedoing of country and they do not like it. elizabeth: they don't want to be misled, monica. we see that in the poll numbers. we had secretary of state antony blinken misleading congress and america claiming they inherited no plan from the trump white house when the u.n. security council unanimously approved doha's plan for afghanistan. the white house is blaming everyone else except themselves. we have senator josh hawley saying he will slow walk any defense nominee. he spoke from the senate floor. he is pledging to slow walk the defense and state department nominees from the biden white house until blinken, secretary of defense lloyd austin and nsa's jake sullivan resign. people in washington, watch what

they are saying, watching the words very closely. it is a lot of topspin and rhetoric. your final word? >> yeah. the american people don't like to be lied to. they see what is happening with their eyes and yet their top leaders are lying to them and dissembling in all kinds of ways, every direction they look, liz, they're seeing catastrophe at the border, on the economy, at the gas pump, in the grocery store, certainly in afghanistan. they want real leadership. good for senator hawley and republicans. time to fight fire with fire. a lot gave president biden of his team benefit of the doubt. those days are long over. knee accountability. the time is now. elizabeth: monica crowley, see you soon. come back soon. >> okay, liz. elizabeth: we have jason chaffetz. new reports that nih deleted at china's request, china's covid-19 data, potentially the

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elizabeth: "wall street journal" reporting this concerning story. the nih deleted genetic data about covid-19. this is genetic data out of china. why? because china asked for it. this could have potentially masked origins of the pandemic and whether it did leak from the wuhan lab. david spunt with more from washington. david? >> liz, the window into finding the origin of covid-19 continues to close. this is another example. the national institutes of health in bethesda, maryland, keeps a database called a sequence read archive. in the past year the archive received 2 1/2 millions of sequence data. the data included gene sequences from patients in wuhan, china believed to have contracted covid-19 in january and february 2020. the early days of the pandemic. what makes this story more

interesting is that some of that data was removed at the request of a chinese researcher. essentially a withdrawal from the owner. >> those sequences are essentially the rosetta stone that enable virologists to trace the drift or manipulation of a genetic code. reporter: three republican senators wrote nih dredges tore francis collins how this could have happened. nih confirmed a internal investigation. telling fox news are looking to determine whether the appropriate steps were taken to assess this withdrawal request. withdrawal makes the data undiscoverable but does not erase it. this comes weeks after the u.s. intelligence community failed to find a definitive origin of covid-19. liz? elizabeth: david spunt, thank you so much for your journalism there, good to see you. welcome back to the show, fox news contributor jason

chaffetz. like nih and dr. anthony fauci are a law on to themselves. your take on this? >> this is stunning liz, i can't believe this is true. supposedly something is under investigation, to say it is not destroyed but undiscoverable, what does that mean? i used to chair the oversight committee. this is precisely the type of thing you want to see to allow the scientists to go back to try to assess the oary begin. now the -- origin. democrats controlling house and senate don't have no interest in this. i don't know why. they should be asked the question every day. there is no investigation by congress that i'm aware of into the origins of covid-19. i think they're afraid of what they're going to see, and they may be implicated. elizabeth: they want to stay focused on the capitol riots to stay in power. they want to focus on tax-and-spend plan to stay in power, pay back for their seats next year in the midterm. jason, there is that story. there is also this.

"politico" is reporting that the white house is limiting government shipment of antibody treatments to state, notably in the south. they are trying to ramp up supply. just last month they said they would give as much supply where needed as needed. they talk about low vaccination rates and surges in the south. why is the administration cutting this back to these states? >> i don't know precisely but these are exactly the questions that a congressional inquiry should be asking. everybody should be asking this and pushing this to say why aren't you doing this. allow doctors to do what doctors do best, that is to work with their individual patients? but it does not make sense on the surface but again, this, i, what this administration is doing, how they're doing it, i offer no explanation. they should be explaining this but they don't. they are doing cover shots on "in style" magazine.

this is where dr. fauci spent his time. elizabeth: texas, florida, ramped up antibody treatment centers because this works. we have other states, georgia, louisiana, alabama, all these states account for about 70% of these antibody orders as of this month there is that story. people are asking, why, this is where the surge is. the surge is in the south. why cut antibody shipments to the states? that is the debate. we have this, jason. more people asking about the data. the fda, the w.h.o., reporting boosters may not be needed. fda is now taking a pause on the pfizer booster for now. they don't have enough available data. they have the british medical journal, reporting multiple studies from england, israel, qatar, the u.s. about natural immunity from prior sickness is being powerful and durable. how come we don't have dr. fauci having that, other scientists here in the white house and administration talking about

that? >> you know dr. rand paul and, thomas massie, the congressman with an mit background in the house of representatives. they have been bringing this up for a long time. everybody just kind of laughed it off and tried to say it was some sort of conspiracy theory, what not. why isn't natural immunity part of the equation in understanding how this disease is transmitted and whether or not they need a mask, don't need a mask? do they need a booster. for those people who say, hey, i don't want to get a shot. my wife around i got a shot, worked with our doctor, that was the best solution. natural immunity has to be considered but europe is really making progress on it. why isn't our own government doing studies on masks? there is not a study out there i'm aware of. i heard good doctors how infuriating they don't have the

data. this administration continues to take a policy position, then they try to find -- elizabeth: people around the world are talking about natural immunity. if you got sick you have antibodies it is more durable. europe, uk, italy, germany, saying no to covid passports. we're talking about it here. feels like we're so behind the eight ball. jason i like to visit back again to the white house and dr. fauci saying you know what? no, we'll not do vaccine mandates. watch this. >> vaccines mandatory? >> no, i don't think it should be mandatory. i wouldn't demand it be mandatory. i do everything in my power. like i don't think masks have to be mandatory nationwide. >> that is not the role of the federal government. that is the role institutions, private sector entities others may take. >> saying we cannot require someone to be vaccinated. that is not just what we can do. it is a matter of privacy to

know who is or who isn't. >> don't want to mandate and try to force anyone to take a vaccine. we've never done that. you can mandate the certain groups of people like health workers but for the general population you can't. but we do not want to be mandating from the federal government to the general population. it would be unenforceable and not appropriate. elizabeth: and unconstitutional according to the supreme court because it is up to the states. that is what, so your final word on that? >> yeah. this is about personal liberty, personal freedom. it is so ironic democrats who beat the drum on personal choice and my body, my choice, they run for the hills when it comes to covid on this stuff. they totally flip and flop and take a totally different position. it is a decision between you and your doctor. government bureaucrats should get out of the way. elizabeth: jason chaffetz, good to have you on. come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: up next, house budget ranking member congressman jason

smith, jason smith is going to talk to us. house ways and means democrats. democrats are moving on tax hikes as we speak. aoc and her tax the rich dress. she is saying this is about starting a conversation. she is ignoring a new joint committee on taxation report that says she and her fellow democrats want to raise taxes on blue-collar, middle class workers making just 30,000 to $40,000 a year. keep it right here on "the evening edit." >> all of the people who are struggling, barely making a living, do they say i'm so glad that aoc really can relate to the common people?

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elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show house budget ranking member. he is congressman jason smith.

jason, congressman, so good to see you. we have democrat socialist alexandria ocasio-cortez, she is defending her tax the rich dress at the met gala here in new york city. she is saying she just wants to start a conversation. house ways and means democrats moving on tax hikes. here is the conversation aoc is not having. the joint committee on taxation says democrats will raise taxes on workers making just $30,000 a year? that is going to happen in six years time? this is blue-collar workers. >> elizabeth, they're raising taxes on all americans. joe biden and nancy pelosi, chuck schumer said all along they will not raise taxes on people that make less than $400,000 a year. it is a complete lie. we have been in a mark-up for four-days in the house ways and means committee. there are numerous tax increases on the low income and working class. in fact anytime you tax a job

creator 2/3 of that burden falls within the low income and the middle income americans. so it's a, it's a complete disaster. >> what they're doing, you see that representative pressley and other members of the squad and democrats going on television saying we have a mandate, right, to do, to raise taxes. they don't have a mandate. they have the lowest margin of powers in a century. so as president's poll numbers go down, you see the democrats ratcheting up the rhetoric, right? the other thing too is, how do elected officials like alexandria ocasio-cortez get into office without even knowing who pays for government and who does not? the 1%, top 1% pay 40% of all federal income tax revenues. the top 20, nearly 90%. 2/3 of u.s. households get more in the way of government benefits than they pay into the system. >> i mean the fact that aoc is

going to events where you spend 30 to $35,000 to just be able to go in the door, she wear as dress made by a designer, that probably violates the house ethics commission, ethics committee. that is what happens when a cardiovascular dash shun gets in the united states congress. aoc is the out of touch. she spends her time with the wealthy elites, not the common people? it is an absolute disembarrass, just the past four days, democrats say one thing do another. they're trying to help the working class but in fact they are doing the opposite. they are giving tax breaks, subsidies to wealthy environmentalists, their friends, political donors, allies, all at the expense of working class by raising their taxes. they're subsidizing hundreds of billions of dollars of coastal elites second residents at the expense of working class

americans. it is unacceptable. then they try to say that they're helping everyday americans. it's a lie, it is a phony sham. it is ridiculous. elizabeth: court -- alexandria ocasio-cortez has never written a bill to get out of for a floor vote. she is ranked as one of the least effective congressman to date. we're coming out of a pandemic. small businesses are struggling. struggling to get workers. 11 million job openings. what you're saying is, joint committee on taxation is finding this too, the democrats will raise taxes on lower income workers? we never saw this before, this is news. >> absolutely, they're raising taxes on all americans. this tax bill, this 3 1/2 trillion dollar tax-and-spending bill is the largest tax increase in the history of the united states. it is also the largest spending bill in the history of the united states.

it spends, it spends more than what it would take to build the national interstate highway system seven complete times in today's dollars. that tells you how extreme it is. but it is all at the expense of the working class and that is just simply wrong. elizabeth: congressman jason smith, great to have you on, come back soon. up next, rnc national committee woman for california harmeet dhillon on governor newsom beating the recall with the help of rich tech companies and big businesses. exit polls though show strong voter resentment against his policies. what this means or the future of california and the democrat party, coming up next. >> the fact that the president and the vice president and biden and harris along with other major democratic politicians, liz warren need to travel 3,000 miles to campaign for newsom just to help him survive speaks volumes.

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jeff rnc national committee woman, former vice-chair woman harmeet dhillon. great to have you back on. why did governor newsom beat the recall in california? >> gavin newsom did a not about failed leadership in california people in california, donald trump national issues what is happening in texas, never did a job distracting electorate from the real issue on the ballot. should gavin newsom keep his job depending on his performance in the state. with an overwhelming monetary advantage. lead-in tens of millions of dollars from big tech companies, democrat allies, teachers unions, other unions, he had an advantage that the republican and democrat challengers didn't

have. they had campaign finance limits. she had no campaign finance limit. he used every dollar to blanket the airwaves. with that kind of advantage that is a huge advantage. elizabeth: disparity, he had no campaign finance limits. talking about george soros giving gavin newsom donations, facebook, uber, walgreens, netflix, the list goes on and on, harmeet. now you see that the officials in california moving to shut down, democrats want to shut down any future recalls permanently, and enshrine permanently the mail-in ballot structure. >> right. both of those are problematic to me. what do you do, you don't like the rules, you change the rules. you don't like the game. he already changed them a couple of times when democrats were at risk of losing a senate seat from a recall, they changed the recall rules. in this case he benefited from the anticipated deadline for the recall by moving it up two

months so he was able to run in september and not november when the situation is likely to be more repressive with covid restrictions. regarding mail-in balloting, we're still tallying the votes and compiling all the incident reports, but i'm here to tell you once we've done all of that work, we'll have several issues to report, potentially legal issues in court regarding california's bloated voter rolls, sending ballots to people out-of-state, even people asked to be removed from the ballot continue to get ballots. that is a serious issue. couple that with no voter i.d., lose issues, ballot harvesting. this is a cautionary tale what happens in other states if they don't make sure to make sure that they have tight restrictions on integrity of their polls which we don't have in california. elizabeth: the exit polls still show that people were really upset with the direction of the state under gavin newsom and the

left's hold on sacramento and policies that have been enacted. you see that going on, you see democrats are still you know, even democrats in the state are still talking about governor gavin newsom violating his own shutdown rules, going maskless in the swanky restaurant. so did nancy pelosi in napa valley. so did aoc at the met event. there is hp hypocrisy running rampant through the state of california. how serious are issues with mail-in ballots and more? final word. >> there are a lot of issues on this. i don't want to prejudge but a lot of issues americans regardless of party need to be resolved. elizabeth: harmeet dhillon, great to have you on, thanks for joining us. come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: defense officials are reporting they're catching way more afghans evacuees with potential terror ties, more than what is being reported. keep it here on

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elizabeth: joining us now yes national guard association chair retired major general mick mcguire, general is good have you on predict the pentagon it biometric identification system has red flags at least 100 afghans evacuated as potentially having terrorist ties in the process of getting special immigration pieces in this national security risk. it is more than double what the washington post reported that the number they reported was 44, what do you say read. guest: well this thank you for having me what i say is no one should be surprised, biden and his administration and that leadership of the deity in the state of arbitrated total chaos towards military decision in the history of this country, the worst. it's uncoordinated evacuation kabul and the fact that people were embedded in uncleared we don't know they are, should surprise no one when we saw people falling off the 17th aircraft and people all over an

active roadway in this clearly joe biden and now we've got to get have to resume her less secure because of the way we left. elizabeth: so this will be cleanup again and this will be after the fact dealing with the biggest defense has been reporting this in the defense also reporting that the screener security at the airbases encounter god at least one of the afghans evacuated from kabul air force with potential ties to isis. guest: that is right and we have seen that here, i did report earlier, three months ago. before we have this disaster in afghanistan, we have seen here in arizona over 50 percent of the people apprehended it, from countries other than afghanistan. golden tribal countries and over 50 percent this the first time that is ever happened and i just, i want all americans to know that the border is for

those people from getting in this country. let alone we have let some of them out on our aircraft pretty. elizabeth: homeland security morale among workers there is reported at historic lows are dealing with multiple crises including the one you're playing out in the dealing with the border in the dealing with a lot of issues created by this white house in his political reporting that in thousands of evacuees heading to military bases. in texas and also in wisconsin, fort lee in virginia. how are those bases going to handle the evacuees given the fact that there may have been problems, they may not have been caught at the front end of the screening. guest: but i cannot imagine with the morale of homeland security and hhs is like right now. having to deal with record illegal immigration's in july, now i was commanding general for eight years we would always see a drop in illegal crossings at

the border between june and august, and the enticement of the open borders at the biden administration has put up. is making it a crushing problem and now you have to add to it, the number of refugees that are here and now improper way to screen and that them. it is total chaos and biden's dereliction of duty we need to hold him to account. and that's why i am running for the estimate, we gotta get people to understand the constitution does not make the president of the united states again and the senators in our case, markedly needs all these people accountable. elizabeth: he also sent a letter to homeland security secretary demanding that he addressed reports that afghan asylum seekers not only are on the watchlist, been accused of crimes like assault and robbery and theft so that is happening as well printed.

guest: we have plenty of crime on our southwest border and in our cities. and we need to not have more of it. we would not be facing this problem and not evacuated and without a plan to get every single american out of kabul and we are watching a failed withdrawal from kabul. it was an absolute disaster and everyone should be held to account it was involved in it. elizabeth: square all of this with the democrats defund the police push. guest: the defendant the police push is a radical left agenda that talks about the idea that this great nation can continue to exist the constitution and the supreme law of the land with enforcement or no enforcement agent. no simulation can survive under the rule of law with no one enforcing the law. these radical policies are

failing and people are playing california and the great state of arizona, we were doing back the united states senate seat to be the 51st vote printed that is what we are going to do because defining the police is not going to work. elizabeth: thank you for joining us and come back soon and then you for your service as well. even watching the evening edit with foxbusiness and thank you so much for watching and have a good evening. larry: hello everyone, i am larry kudlow and welcome to kudlow and we have a lot of breaking news today. much of it regarding the book called tell in the responses to it now yesterday, at least on the show, generally if the general had spoken to the chinese counterpart general leave without any knowledge of the commander-in-chief donald trump, that he would be subject to forced r