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little guys, the mom-and-pop shops. help them stop crime. now they're fighting back on their own. you won't believe in which areas typically run by democrats. we'll dig into just what is really going on and how out of touch democrats really are with main street. joining us tonight, senators rick scott and bill hagerty, south carolina attorney general alan wilson, national border patrol council president brandon judd, former top national security official kt mcfarland and former utah congressman jason chaffetz. the white house battling against biden's bad poll numbers dropping now into the 30s. he is bringing back the pain of the carter era. that is what economists are warning. we have another bad read on inflation, hotter than expected. it is not transitory as the white house claims. okay, pandemics historically are deflationary? this is not good but the white house blaming the media for biden's bad poll numbers

attacking as fake news higher cbo scores on their answer to fixing inflation. more government spending. they tried to claim it costs zero, remember that? and we have this? yet another court loss for the white house but a scathing rebuke by appeals court judges of biden's weak border policy now grabbing attention. the fifth circuit reinstated trump's remain in mexico policy. we've got the story. also florida governor ron desantis wants to transport illegals to the so-called not in my backyard rich play grounds like martha's vineyard. even biden's home state of delaware. look at this the washington post reporting that the white house wants to build, quote, european style reception centers at the border. new government data undercuts the white house claims of number of americans left stranded in afghanistan. we'll dig into the fuzzy math.

i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit," it starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. let's get started with the death toll in the aftermath of the swarm of tornadoes in half a dozen states. it continues to rise. the president said he will go to kentucky tomorrow. thousands now without heat and water. grady trimble has the story. reporter: liz, governor andy beshear of kentucky says more than 100 people are still unaccounted for after friday night's tornado. you can understand why when we hear stories of survival from people here in mayfield. the gentleman who lives in this house behind me, his brother tells me was sucked out of the house in the middle of the night and blown a mile from here. they found him at a nearby church, miraculously he survived. we're hearing stories across kentucky and several other

states impacted by these storms. >> we came out here to clean up to find for my brother. he lost a lot of stuff here but mainly thank god he is still living. reporter: the insurance information institute said it is too early to put a price tag on the total cost of the damage from these tornadoes, this will likely be the costliest tornado event in u.s. history. all over mayfield tonight, other parts of kentucky families like this one are going through their homes or the homes of their loved onf scenes president biden will see when he visits mayfield and dawson springs tomorrow. liz. elizabeth: heart breaking. grady trimble thank you for your journalism there. joining us senator rick scott from senate homeland security. it is great to have you on, sir. okay, we've got, this is what is going on. we have the governors of new york, democrat governors and also california saying you have to wear masks indoors, right,

even if you're vaccinated. the crime situation though is really bad on the ground. people are feeling that the white house and democrats are really out of touch with what americans are feeling on main street. the president's approval ratings not good on crime. 2/3 disapprove in a new abc news ipsos poll. the white house says we're spending money on funding cops. what do you say to all of this? >> think about a family, think about a typical mom and dad. they're scared about, raising their kids. they want to live in a safe neighborhood. they know if they're in a democrat run city, the murder rate is way up. they're sending their kids to school. they're worried about the public school system being soft on crime. then now you see this border being open. we know that one one one thousad people died of -- 100,000 people died of drug overdoses last year. parents are scared to death that it could happen to their kid. ideas of defunding police, not

holding criminals accountable. if you work in retail store you worried about in democrat cities of being looted. carjackings are up. you feel sorry for the families, they want to get a job, make sure the kids get a good education, live in a safe community and these democrats don't care. elizabeth: senator, a growing number of residents ins who loss, beverly hills, hollywood, they're buying weapons. these are hardcore left-wing environs. they're buying guns due to a rise in home invasions or robberies. we're talking the l.a. county sheriff office seeing permit requests, more than 810000 concealed carry weapons applications over the last several years. that versus 200 in the four years prior. >> well, think about it. it hurts the poorest families the most. if you have money you can get private security but the poor family struggling to make ends meet, they can't move apartments or homes all the time.

they're stuck with their local public school. they probably can't afford even to have a gun to defend themselves. so who gets hurt? it is always the poorest family, the elderly, ones to get hurt. democrats are soft on crime. they think the criminals are the good guys. this mostly peaceful protest, no, not mostly peaceful. we need to be tough on crime. you commit a came, you should have to serve your time. elizabeth: okay. here's the thing, we've got eric swalwell talking about you have to get vaccinated if you're going to get on an airplane. that is what he wants. "the atlantic"'s david frum treat unvaccinated last in hospitals. but you know, there is that, they're talking about that when you have the u.s. murder rate rising 30% since 2019. at least a dozen major cities including new york city, historical murder records in 2021. the outgoing mayor bee blast yo downplaying it claiming we're

safer when he took office. philadelphia d.a. says there is no violent crime crisis when there is. homicides are up. >> why don't the democrats go do their job? what you should do is give people good information about the vaccine, what is happening to covid, people make a good hoist. when i was governor of florida i didn't mandate people evacuate from hurricane. here are the issues you have to deal with. here is where you can go. what i would do. when we had the zika health care crisis i gave pregnant women for a free test. i told them where the transmission of zika was. they make good informed decisions. give americans credit. my dad had a 6th grade education. he wasn't dumb. he could make good decisions. trust americans. they make good choices. elizabeth: the thing is people think they care about putting mandates on top of their heads versus helping them stopping crime. let's watch los angeles county sheriff hitting back at the local d.a. george gascon who has

been criticized for going weak on crime. let's listen to this. watch. >> well you know i'm not going to get into the personal attacks. i will focus on performance. if you can't do the job you need to get out of office, plain and simple. roughly 12,000 cases in his first year in office that he has not prosecuted, that we made the arrest, did the investigation, established all of the elements of the crime, presented it and they decided well, our special order says we'll not prosecute at all that. is 12,000 times the crook walked away scot-free. what kind of message is that selling to the criminal community or sending to the criminal community right now? 12%, for l.a. county, our just jurisdictions homicides are up 40% this year alone. that number is just astonishing. grand theft auto is up 25%. the numbers keep climbing, all he is doing, he continues down a failed path. elizabeth: so they're going weak

on crime in california but putting mask mandates even the vaccinated indoors. do you see the disconnect? >> absolutely. elizabeth: do you see how angry people can get over that? >> this happened to me when i was governor. i had a state attorney elected. they didn't want to prosecute. so i took all of her cases away from her. i gave them to another state attorney. you have to, if you commit a crime, you're going to be prosecuted. there is due process. you will be prosecuted. that is why when i left office as governor we had 47-year low in our crime rate. support the law enforcement. they're there to help you. teach your children and grandchildren to respect law enforcement. help them every day you can. you will have a safer neighborhood. elizabeth: what is really working amazon's ring network. the ring camera on the door is, they have hooked up with 2000 police and fire departments. they're catching bad guys on those cameras. we're looking at numerous studies showing people use their own personal firearm two million times a year but more than 90% of the time they're just

brandishing the gun. they're not even firing it, right? maybe shooting it off. not shooting it at the attacker maybe 8% of the time. americans are standing up on their own to defend themselves when their local governments are not. so people talk about the prevalence of guns. it is because of bad policies. your final word? >> we pay these taxes for law enforcement. our elected officials need to support our law enforcement. there are wonderful people that do the job go into it to keep people safe. support your law enforcement, including all the elected officials in this country. elizabeth: thank you very much. we're staying on the story. four democratic governors are pushing back on mandates. they don't really like them but other blue state governors, democrats, imposing tough vaccine mandates even if you're vaccinated. growing study body says democrat shutdowns failed and failed badly. brandon judd, the border crisis,

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♪. elizabeth: the fifth circuit court of appeals last night ordered the white house to reinstate trump's remain in mexico policy at the border as apprehensions hit two million a year. the size of nebraska. we've got that story coming up. first let's get the latest from the border with bill melugin. reporter: liz, good evening to you. we all remember back in the spring the administration was saying this was just a seasonal thing. that progress was being made. well here we are in the middle of december and the situation on the ground just hasn't changed at ault. take a look at this video shot by our drone team in the rio grande valley. this is la joya, texas. this is scene we've seen before. migrant family turning themself up. dhs says the rio grande valley sector has seen more than 12,000 apprehensions. that is up 13% over the same time frame last year. then del rio sector, where we are.

last night we embedded with a elite brush team as they work in the ranches in kenny county. 10-miles inland from the rio grande. they're looking for illegal immigrant runners trying to evade and sneak in. these are not people claiming asylum. they usually have camo and black on. when dps finds them, arrest them, jail them for criminal trespassing. they have made 2300 arrests on these ranches. look at this video here in eagle pass. we shot this yesterday as we watched migrants crossing the rio grande, not just in front of us but right in front of border patrol as well. this group in particular was made up mostly of nicaraguans. there was one man from nigeria as well. lastly we show you the photos out of rio grande valley sector, human smuggling. border patrol making mult pell human smuggling. they are crammed in the pickups trucks and covered up in the photos with mattress, blankets

or one case even plywood. we talk about how busy it is in in texas. this is not just a texas issue. yuma, arizona is getting incredibly hit just as hard as well. the border patrol reported 2600 migrant encounters from 30 countries all around the world. we'll send it back to you. elizabeth: bill melugin. thank you for your story and your reporting good to have you on. welcome to the show, national border patrol council brandon judd. we heard bill melugin's report. fifth circuit court of appeals reinstated trump's remain in mexico t was scathing rebuke ever the president's border policies. not because arbitrary and capricious or violating laws congress writes, dhs is doing a massive policy reversal affecting countless people by simply typing out a new word document and posting it on the internet. what do you say? >> thank goodness that a coequal

branch, the executive branch, is standing up and telling the biden administration what they're doing is wrong. thank goodness that the branch of government that has control over this issue is stepping up and telling the biden administration what they need to do and they're trying to enforce it. they're trying to force the biden administration to reimplement a program that was so effective it was a brand new program that was almost like recreating the will from the trump administration was like a light switch. the moment we started sending people back to mexico pending asylum hearing, illegal immigration dropped to historic lows. if the biden administration properly reimplements this program, it will do wonders for the border patrol. it will do wonders for border security. the problem is they have no intent to do it. they know that they can't. if they, if they properly reimplement the mpp it will show president trump was right. it will show they are wrong. they are not willing to do that. so what they will do is do what

they have already been doing. elizabeth: wait. i have to jump in here because the white house, the report coming out of "the washington post," the white house is considering launching european style reception centers at the border for illegal border-crossers. will reception centers, they say this would cush illegal immigration but the border-crossers would not be required to stay at the reception centers. they would be allowed to come and go, maybe go into the u.s. interior. what do you say? >> it is a stupid idea and it's a waste of taxpayer money. we mr. have ports of entry. we already have places where people that want to enter the country and claim asylum, they can do that. what they're refusing to tell the american public it is the cartels that drive this. the cartels determine where people cross the border illegally. the cartels are not going to let these people cross into reception centers. the cartels want to flood our resources. they want to take us out of the field. i just spent last week going from el paso to big bend, big bend to del rio, del rio to

laredo, to rgv. amazing how few agents are out on the border. the reason is the cartels are forcing people to cross where they want them to cross. they will not allow people to cross -- elizabeth: ron desantis was talking about how he wants $8 million in his new proposed budget to transport illegal border-crossers into the rich playgrounds, not in my backyard areas. maybe the president's home state of delaware, martha's vineyard. watch this. >> yesterday's budget i put in $8 million for us to be able to transport people illegally out of the state of florida. we had mentioned, and i said, you know, it is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but if it is true, if you sent to delaware, martha's vineyard, some of these places the border would be secure the next day. you're having 200,000 people illegally enter every month. that is a medium-sized american city every month coming in illegally. elizabeth: a city coming in

illegally every month. he is trying to make a point that it is the border towns who are really suffering because they have been left and abandoned to the cartels. your point about, your response what the governor is saying here? >> good for governor desantis. it is already proven, in san diego when hundreds of thousands of people were crossing in san diego, in a democrat community, rich democrat communities, they put a stop to illegal immigration. governor desantis knows what he is talking about. if he were to do this, it would stop. let's hope that he can. let's hope he can find a way. elizabeth: thanks for coming on. thanks for your service to our country. good to see you. still to come later this hour. we'll stay on the border crisis. it is fueling a nationwide drug crisis. reports coming in that the dea is expanding the fight against drugs inside of china. to stop fentanyl from coming here and killing americans at record rates. up next, senator bill hagerty, the white house blaming the media for bad poll numbers. attacking as fake news higher

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♪. elizabeth: okay, we've got the white house going on the attack against the media, blaming the media for biden's bad polls. that is what we're hearing from d.c. media. this is what the pressure campaign is. we have wholesale producer

prices coming in hotter than expected across the board. nearly a double-digit read. this is a big jump from buy low 2% at the beginning of the year. this is upstream pricing. when it goes down dream it really gets -- downstream it really gets entrenched. from senate banking, housing and urban affairs, he is senator bill hagerty. pandemics are usually deflationary. critics say the biden team, they're on track to match jimmy carter's record for economic pain. how did we get here? >> well i think it is these reckless policies that the biden administration has induced from the very beginning, liz. they have waged war on the oil and gas industry here in america. it is no surprise gas is up more than 50% at the pump. for every industry that uses oil and gas as a feedstock, the cost of production goes up and every good has to be transported in america. inherently inflationary. if you look what happened across the board, policy of throwing

more and more money in the system basically subsidizing unemployment and with policies that keep people out of the workforce. it is dampening supply at same time there's stimulating demand like crazy. elizabeth: last week's nearly 40-year high in cpi, 6.8%, two percentage points of that headline number came from biden's war on oil. those were oil and energy prices spiking higher. senator, that is the biggest jump since hurricane katrina in 2005 wiped out oil facilities. i'm not sure if people in washington understand that, right? so we have a new trafalgar poll, 56% don't believe the president on inflation. this is before last week's 40-year high read in cpi. more than half of americans say the economy is getting worse. are they waking up down there in d.c. how bad it is? what are they going to do? they are saying full steam ahead

on spending that will cure inflation? >> this is why americans don't believe biden cares about inflation. he stays on same talking points. he claims what is close to 5 trillion-dollar package, when you look at real numbers coming out of cbo that will somehow incur inflation? no, that will stimulate it further. the american public knows this. the biden is trying to deny reality to stick to talking points are actually the opposite of what the truth is. elizabeth: the voters expect inflation to rise the double the rate of their wage gains. the bank of america saying consumers spend at a faster rate than they have ever seen. people are feeling it on fixed incomes, pensions, senior citizens on pensions. those seeing wage gains wiped out by getting wiped out by inflation. watch the white house going on the attack, doubling down, calling a cbo report fake news after it found democrat spending worth trillions of dollars worth of debt over the next decade if the programs remain permanent. remember the white house falsely

claimed their spending would cost zero, remember that as we watch this? >> so the president says the build back better is not going to add a penny to the deficit. the cbo has the new score where they assume that social programs are going to be made permanent and in that case it would add almost $3 trillion. so does that mean the president biden will commit that these programs are not going to be made permanent? >> well, first of all, what you're talking about here is a fake cbo score, that is not based on the actual bill, that anybody is voting on. this is a ask request by senator graham to score a bill that is not currently being debated. but it is important to understand that when you, when anybody raises a question about this new cbo score, it is a fake score about a bill that doesn't exist. elizabeth: okay. another fastball being whipped by the american people. 15 or 17 of those programs, majority of them likely will become permanent because that what has been going on since the

'50s in d.c. you float an entitlement, it becomes cemented in stone. your reaction. >> as milton friedman said there is more permanent than a temporary federal program, liz. that is exactly what is going on here. what the press secretary is saying is the exact opposite of the truth yet again. the budget gimmicks they put in the bill to get the number down below 2 trillion were taken out. that is what lindsey graham asked to be done, scored along the same length of time the pay fors were scored. when he does that, you get a 3 trillion-dollar addition to our national debt. that is 10% of the current debt that is way too high. this is ridiculous argument the white house is making. very rich. we see what is happening here too, there is a psychological component the brian moynihan of bank of america said he hasn't seen americans spending at this pace. because they think something will be more expensive tomorrow than it is today. there is psychological component that will be self-fulfilling.

as people accelerate the spending to beat the inflation that is coming that bee gets inflation. that is what biden set off a psychological impact on the american public that is very real. elizabeth: senator bill hagerty. great to have you on. come back soon. we're coming into the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. up next, south carolina attorney general alan wilson. we will talk to us how four democrat governors are pushing back. they don't like covid policies and mandate but other blue state governors, they're demanding masks inside, mask mandates even if you're vaccinated. with very a growing body of economic studies showing the democrat led shutdowns or lockdowns, they failed and they failed badly. keep it here on "the evening edit".

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800,000th u.s. debt from covid with a moment of silence today. we have that story. also this story, four democrat governors moving away from the white house and democrats on covid policies and mandates for whatever reason, they're effectively saying they don't work at the local level. talking democrat colorado governor jared polys, democrat michigan governor, whitmer, democrat kansas governor, laura kelly, minnesota governor, walz. what do you say to that? >> the policies of the biden administration is making it harder for americans and citizens of our respective states to start doing what they were doing before this pandemic. we just saw this last week, a symbolic vote in the u.s. senate, 52 senators, two democrats joined the republican caucus basically voting against institute asallizing codifying the osha mandate. 26 ags brought private lawsuits with private plaintiffs

to halt the number of mandates. when i walk streets of columbia and other places in south carolina, thank you for doing what you're doing. we're sick and tired of these mandates and these policies. they're killing us. that is what you're seeing the democrats start to realize. elizabeth: we have economic studies coming in from around the world. dozens and dozens of studies we're looking at. lockdowns did not work and the virus spread anyway. they assembled 33 case studies from all over the world. lockdowns in the face of the virus seem completely uncorrelated with the trajectory of the disease. suddenly the little guy, the dry cleaner, the shoe repairmen did not stop covid. you know what it did? stopped the families to suffer as they dropped into poverty. created massive misery. people were upset and angry. they lost their livelihoods. they can't feed their families. moralizing sanctimony of people who get a paycheck, bureaucrats who never ran a business, shutting others down. that was the worst thing.

they are putting more mandates on top of people and they are surprised people are up sight with their moralizing and holier than thou attitudes? really? they're surprised people are angry. >> no, i couldn't agree with you anymore. again this president, if you remember, he ran on ending the pandemic. but unfortunately he needs the pandemic for these federal cram-downs, that is the paradox for the he put himself into. at the beginning of the pandemic, we would have lockdowns 15 days, to flatten the curve, not to over run the hospitals. what they realize they need the pandemic to basically continue to promote their leftist agenda. that is why they keep moving the goalpost. it is cramming down and killing small businesses. elizabeth: watchma governor ron desantis on this. watch. >> mandates and restrictions have not been effective but they have been very costly and i think the proof is in the

puddings. you have people that want to come to florida to vacation and buy homes. you don't have the opposite leaving free states to go to new york and some other places. because i fear they will continue to do this until they suffer at the ballot box. elizabeth: texas and florida open, no restrictions. versus new york and california. but mostly similar death rates. closed michigan, worst disease prevalence than neighboring wisconsin. now california and new york doing indoor mask mandates even if you're vaccinated. >> listen, you look at florida and texas and i will throw my home state of south carolina in there. florida, especially with a much older population with more comore about itties than other states. florida is thriving. new york as similar statistics to california. they're killing the economy and not getting any better results than you're having in florida,

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the fuzzy math on number of americans left in afghanistan. late august, secretary blinken said quote 200 citizens, likely closer to 100. now it is closer to more than 900. 49 american citizens, 450 permanent residents, whatever. it is almost 930. that is way more than a hundred. >> yeah. the thing is, liz, they have been lying all along and the lies keep piling up. they were adamant we're never going to leave americans behind. that is from president biden, secretary of state. well, just a few hundred. the white house press secretary, just a few hundred. there are several hundred, who knows how high that number goes. those are american citizens. that is not even counting the afghans who helped us, that we were supposed to be able to get out as well. i talked to a number of people who have been getting people out of afghanistan and here is what they say, we're, it is not the u.s. government getting them out. it is private american citizens, many of them former veterans who

have been in afghanistan and they're working behind the scenes quietly to get americans out to get permanent residents out, to get afghans out and one man even told me that you know, we're getting people out in spite of the state department. the state department isn't helping us. in fact we're having to jump over hurdles to even get them to cooperate. so it is again, it's a lie after a lie after a lie and this starts having a eroding effect on the confidence of the american people and the administration but frankly of our allies as well. elizabeth: kt, is there any way the white house can blame this on the so-called fog of war stuff? >> no. you know, americans, they know who is there. they should know who is there. all this stuff, when the white house press secretary says we're not monitoring and tracking american people. they have a pretty darn good idea who is there. to say, fog of war, fog of war, they continue to claim afghanistan was, withdrawal was

terrific. everyone in the country, everyone in the world know the whole thing was shambolic. it was deliberately screwed up. they had months to know they were leaving afghanistan and yet there were mo preparations made at all. no fog of war excuse works in this case at all. elizabeth: before the withdrawal the president vowed to leave no u.s. citizen behind. the president again recently defended the widely, widely criticized botched withdrawal in a cbs sunday morning interview. let's listen to this. >> there are certain things like, for example, afghanistan, well, i been against the war in afghanistan from the very beginning. we spent $300 million a week in afghanistan over 20 years. now how, everybody says you could have gotten out without anybody being hurt. no one has come up with a way to ever indicate to me how that happens. elizabeth: okay. is it true that his senate record shows he was totally

against afghanistan and isn't the point not about, not people being hurt, people being hurt. by the way 13 u.s. troops were hit with by a terrorist bombing. and a drone strike killed 10 civilians including seven children? it is the point of abandoning people behind enemy lines. does his senate record show he was always against afghanistan? >> no. not at all. he voted for the afghanistan war from the very beginning. he voted for appropriations for afghanistan war, for what, 10, 15 years. he was vice president of the united states when president obama increased the american presence in afghanistan. so, no, again, lie, after lie, lie after lie, the corrosive effect this has on our allies who look at that and say, we can't trust america, we can't trust this president and our adversaries who think ah-ha, this is our moment to take advantage and exploit a shambolic presidency.

elizabeth: what about the new line no one has come up to a way to ever indicate to me how you could have got own out without anybody being hurt? your take on that? >> that is not what his generals said. and several of his generals who were on the ground in afghanistan, they said that they gave him opposite advice. so no, again, lie after lie after lie. elizabeth: basically saying you could keep 2500 troops there, do it the right way, hold on to bagram airbase to do evacuations, abandon military hardware. that was the beginning of the slide down in his poll numbers. that is when he brought on the vaccine mandates at the federal level. kt mcfarland. good having you on. good to see you. come back soon. up next the white house is insisting the vice president is still in charge of the border and the president of guatamala says he hasn't heard from her since june. now this, the border crisis is fueling a nationwide drug crisis. reports that the dea is expanding the fight against

drugs inside of china to stop fentanyl from coming here to kill americans at historic rates. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. ♪

joining us now, fox news conservative former utah congressman, but your this first. white house press secretary jen psaki insists the vice president still in charge of the border after the president of guatemala said he is not heard from her since june. what's going on here? >> it is an absolute joke. kamala harris has fairly spent but a few minutes on the border. she went to central america but no follow-up according to the president of the country that she visited. it is a joke. statistically, the numbers continue to get worse on a day to day basis. they insist the border is secure but there's no evidence that is actually secured or locked down. >> jason, u.s. drug agents and the dea, there is this story, china is letting them in to expand the fight against functional.

against the chemicals used to make functional. we know 100,000 american lives have been lost to drug overdoses, largely fueled by the opioid crisis but it striking now expanding the fight inside of china. it striking china is allowing them. what you think? >> i think china is keeping a close eye on this. if you took 1 pound of fat no it ends up being 400 video 3000 milligrams. it only takes 2 milligrams to come up with a lethal dose so one pound of fennel, you can kill a quarter of a million people. to suggest we are going to read this out in china, i think it is a pr stunt, i'll be gets the reality of what's happening but i'm glad the dea is doing everything it possibly can. i hope there's no -- more cooperation but it's really

difficult to get this out unless your closing down the border which we are not doing. >> we hear you loud and clear. it feels like mission impossible for the dea. reports are coming and talking about 160,000. 160,000 companies, layer upon layer of traders, brokers and borders inside the fentanyl supply chain out of the far east. i don't know how you stop it. these guys are talking 4700 dea agents, that's about a third of what the fbi has. if you are right about that, they are up against it. i don't know how they stop it. >> we are supposed to, by law, infect one 100% of the cargo cross on ships. the last time i checked when i was on the house judiciary committee, less than 2% of cargo is in by customs officials and then a wide open border. today i talked to brandon judd

multiple times at the national border patrol council and 90% of the agents are processing coming across the border illegally, only 10% of our border patrol agents are patrolling the border you have a dea budget only about three billing dollars, that's what the cartel makes in just one year. they are like a fortune 500 company. we had mcallen del rio major sectors of the border basically abandoned to the cartel. why are our american citizens stranded and left alone to fight this by themselves?

>> because it was a choice joe biden and kamala harris made. i just read kamala harris redecorated her office and she's having problems hiring people within her own vice president office, another person quit the other day. she can't even run her office and get the current strained out, what makes you think being in charge of the border she's actually locking it down? >> it's hair on fire, u.s. citizens are on the frontline of a major transnational criminal fight. it's a national security crisis. should be hair and fire moment for the white house, we don't understand why it's not. your final word? >> over 100,000 people have died. how many people does it take to get the white house's attention? fentanyl coming across the border is going to kill people by the thousands but they don't seem to care because they don't do anything to stop it. >> where does that leave? are people waking up in d.c. at

all? final word. >> i think if you talk to any border patrol agent, they are beside themselves. talk to the people on the frontline. >> jason, good to see you. come back soon. i'm elizabeth mcdonald, you've been watching the evening at on foxbusiness, that does it for us. thank you for joining us and have a good evening. ♪♪ kennedy: now exactly one year since the first person plus vaccinated against covid and back then, lots probably thought it would be over by now. i said, we are seeing rounds of mask mandate and lockdowns so what was the reason to jump through the hoops? last few days, the governors of new york and california, mass again required endorse even if you're sitting at your desk