virus, the impact it will have on our country, on demand, all the issues facing us. it will do it for us tonight on fox business. "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: tonight the reality behind the president's address to the nation today as covid cases surge. his poll numbers continue to drop. calling in fema you about don't panic. what you didn't hear, there needs to be more talks of treatments and living with covid. vaccinated are getting sick. people want normalcy. no one in government should excuse away they did not see any variant coming when the government is not fixing how the u.s. is flying blind to catch variants. the u.s. only dna tested less

than 6% of covid samples. that is quarter to a third of what europe or the uk is doing. so why is dr. fauci always on tv and not focusing on fixing that? joining us congressman ronny jackson, claudia tenney, austin cot, rick meta, former cbo director doing laws holtz-eakin, former prosecutor jim trusty and texas attorney general ken paxton. the white house pushed on covid when candidate biden said he had a plan to fight it. he didn't. his own plan was to deliver vaccines developed under trump. he politicized and blaming trump for covid-19. like blaming the wind. a fox business nice poll shows more bad news. cnn has a worse rating on economy than even jimmy carter. the debate, are we suffering through the worst president inn modern history. john durham in the criminal probe of trump russia, reporting zeroing in on members of the hillary clinton, may call them

to testify. could durham bring charges here? also tonight why is former nih director dr. francis collins aggressively downplaying the possibility covid-19 leaked from a lab in china? we've got more on how his nih funded research in china into creating superviruses for drugs and vaccines. and the fallout of "the financial times" calling out president biden for not making the alarming rise in u.s. crime a national priority. also the growing concern over the health of illegal immigrants getting sick from covid-19. national security pros and scientists increasingly warn the white house creating a superspreader event at the southern border. it is getting worse. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: thanks for joining us you're watching the fox business

network. we begin with the president's poll numbers continue to drop toward below 40%. npr marist has it at 55% disapprove. the president addressed the nation today. announces his administration will buy hundreds of millions of rapid tests americans can get for free at a government website. after the white house delayed the testing requirement for companies in biden's vaccine mandate, delayed it to february. hillary vaughn has more. hillary. reporter: liz, president biden says he is taking action to try to cut down on long lines around the country for people waiting to get covid tests by bringing the covid tests to your living room. >> starting next month, private insurance will also cover at home testing. so you can order a test online to get reimbursed. reporter: white house says they will distribute 3,500,000,000 free covid at home kits -- 500 million. this will not be set up until

january after the new year. this will not fix the long lines people will need to brave today to feel safe gathering with family this holiday. >> this is not enough. we have to do more. we have to do better. and we will. starting this week the federal government will set up emergency testing sites in areas that need additional testing capacity. reporter: here in arlington, virginia, the line is wrapped around the block since this morning. public library ran out of testing kits an hour after opening. they will not get a new shipment in until after the new year. wait times are not up here from all around the country from florida to new york where yesterday some people reported waiting seven hours in the cold just to get a covid test. liz? elizabeth: thanks for your journalism. thanks for your report. joining us texas congressman, former white house doctor ronny jackson, along with former fda official rick meta.

great to see you both rick and dr. jackson. reaction to the president today. watch this. >> fully vaccinate, you have good reason to be concerned. you're at a high-risk of getting sick. almost everyone who has died from covid-19 in the past many months has been unvaccinated, unvaccinated. get vaccinated now. i believe it is your patriotic duty. we should all be concerned about omicron but not panicked. this is critical moment. elizabeth: he went after a report, a reporter asked how come you didn't do enough to get more testing. he got really angry and said, common. dr. jackson, your reaction to that? >> well i think as long as we're relying on dr. fauci and president biden to reassure the public it is not going to work. he is the most inarticulate uninformed person in the white house. no one trusts dr. fauci anymore either. this testing thing will not work, liz. it's a farce. they will throw out 500 million tests.

recommended everybody get tested across the board, device a week. that's insane. that would be 2.3 billion tests per month in order to do that. that is crazy. how about a testing plan? how about testing targeted populations? we shouldn't be testing asymptomatic people. we should be testing people that are symptomatic. this is just, this is us why another effort for them to continue to spin things up. just creating unreasonable fear in the country right now with this omicron variant. it is part of the grand plan to be honest with you. they need the fear to be able to blame everything that happens negative or bad in the biden administration on the virus. elizabeth: rick, you know, dr. fauci even said we have to live with covid but we have a hard focus on testing and vaccinations and not treatments of the is that really the only way when vaccinated are getting sick? people want normalcy. people want to hear more about treatments. pfizer, merck, biontech are working on pills and treatment. >> that's right. you continue to hear from the biden administration and

president biden himself they have no plan to end this pandemic. what is testing going to do when you have people that are, either not getting vaccinated, not able to talk to their doctor about not getting vaccinated. the biden administration continues to rule by fear, not allowing for people to talk to their doctors, to create trust in the system. what they should be doing talking to their own administration at the fda, talking about how we fast track treatment options. you saw pfizer release top line results. 90% effectiveness. keep people that are either vaccinated or unvaccinated out of the hospitals and stop them from catching a severe infection. that is what we should really talk about. how we'll not overwhelm the health systems because we have treatment options coming down the path. elizabeth: now we have democrat politicians nationwide to rick meta's point, in new york and michigan, they're saying no to lockdowns, not going with that but the point is that the president's saying known anticipated omicron when the u.s. is flying blind on variants.

we only test 6% of covid samples, dr. jackson. the uk is doing multiples higher of that. we're seeing omicron, there is only a third of the hospitalizations in south africa versus the delta variant, right? we have flying blind. i mean we're seeing world health officials, only a dozen people worldwide have died of omicron. the numbers are not really coming in yet. the reporting is really not there. what do you say to all of that? >> i say that they should be more informed, they should know what is going on. they shouldn't be spinning this up the way they are. we do know enough, this may be much more infectious, but much less deadly. we need to talk about the number of hospitalizations, number of deaths, stop focusing on number of positive cases. if they send out, make everybody in the country get tests twice a week, tons and tons of people asymptomatic test positive that will drive the number through the roof. it will create more fear and panic in the country. that is not the path the administration needs to be taking. they need to be following the

science and be reassuring the public that we will be able to react to the next variant that comes along that may be something of significance. this is not the one. elizabeth: dr. jackson's point, rick, now we're hearing three shots is fully vaccinated. moderna is talking about a omicron booster. where is our chance to get back to normal? what is the normal vaccination dose number? >> we have to change the focus off the conversation here. look the fda themselves has not even approved, given full approval to moderna or j&j. in fact they have only approved pfizer's vaccine for 16 and up. now you have mandates coming down the pike that the biden administration continues to push, unethical and unconstitutional. rather than focusing on actually getting the products, making sure they're safe and effective they continue to create fear. we may never get back to normal until we stop talking about to the good doctor's point infection rates, start talking about how whether or not the

variants are overwhelming the health care systems or have high hospitalization rates. we haven't seen that yet. elizabeth: ceo of northwell, to dr. jackson's point, northwell is not seeing a rise in hospitalizations. we want everybody to be careful and safe. we want people to be safe and vaccinated but there is a slipshod approach here. just a few weeks ago, jen psaki, white house press secretary was ridiculing the idea that we're going to send free tests to everybody out there. now the president is announcing just that today. >> yeah. they're never on the same page. they really got to stop crying wolf, liz. they will continue to do this. when something does come up, we really need the american people to listen to what they're saying no one will listen to what they are saying anymore. they could reassure a lot of people talking about antivirals, therapeutic, natural immunity, things people have been asking questions about for a long time now but they're just fixated on pushing the vaccines on people that don't want to get the vaccine and pushing these

mandates. people are done with it. elizabeth: the mayor of boston is banning the unvaccinated from restaurants, gyms and theaters, rick meta. they want normalcy. don't want panic. they want optimism around hope. critics say we didn't get that from the president's speech. final word to you, rik? >> here in new jersey 1/3 of our businesses are locked down, shuttered. our economy continues to get crushed. these unmandated, undown constitutional restrictions they keep putting on businesses it is not going to work. it is only creating more hesitancy. those that may get vaccinated are thinking twice about doing it because they're being forced to do it. elizabeth: we hear you. 27 states, multiple businesses, taken the fight against biden's vax mandate from the supreme court. we could hear from the supreme court, few days, maybe a week what will happen with the cases. dr. ronny jackson, rick met at that, great to have you on. come back soon.

still to come out this hour the fallout from "the financial times" for president biden not making the alarming rise in u.s. crime a national priority. up next former cbo director douglas holtz-eakin. a "fox business poll" reveals more bad news for the president. a new cnn poll shows biden has the worst approval rating on the economy than even jimmy carter. the debate. are we suffering through the worst president in modern history? you're watching "the evening edit" on foxee business. ♪. ♪ red roses too ♪ ♪ i see them bloom ♪ ♪ for me and you ♪ ♪ and i think to myself ♪ ♪ what a wonderful world ♪ a rich life is about more than just money. that's why at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner so you can build a future for those you love. vanguard. become an owner.

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♪. elizabeth: welcome back, the president's poll numbers continue to drop after months of misleading on afghanistan, inflation, the border, government spending, the reasons for crime. now the university of michigan's consumer confidence number is lower than it was in december 2009. that was when the u.s. was in the middle of a economic crisis. edward lawrence has more. reporter: liz, president joe biden very aware of his sinking poll numbers though the administration is staying course on all of its policies, even in the face of the defeat of the social infrastructure package not coming up for a vote in the senate this year. >> some people think maybe i'm not irish, i don't hold a grudge. look, i want to get things done. i still think there is a

possibility of getting build back better done. reporter: this is what the president faces. 55% of registered voters say 20012001 has been a bad year for their family. only 30 one% say it's a good year. that is a very personal poll which could reflect vote against democrats in some areas. if you gone out street, ask 10 people, seven of them will say 2021 is a bad year for the country. it gets at the heart of small business owners, feelings about president biden, saying he is out of touch. listen. >> i really he doesn't think better that 6% of america is sml business. we're the number one employer in the united states. it is not amazon, per capita for every person we employ. reporter: independent voters reflect dissat backs with the way things are going in the fox business polls. elizabeth: edward lawrence

thanks so much, good to see you. joining us now, former cbo director douglas holtz-eakin. also this, cnn poll, cnn poll shows biden has a worse approval rating on the economy even than jimmy carter. are we at a unique moment in time in history we're potentially suffering through the worst president in modern history? what do you say? >> well we know some things that are in the numbers that are just really hard to dispute. yes, wages are rising, but no, they're not rising faster than inflation and for the household that spends over half of its budget on food, energy and shelter, those prices are up at an 8 1/2% rate so far this year. so they are not getting ahead. they know it. so it's a bad year for them. we just heard the discussion about the president's rollout of his plan to combat the coronavirus, to do better against covid-19. that is the key economic policy. i mean that, having confidence in that would improve i think people's feeling about the outlook for the economy. they have seen this movie

before. last year around december we saw a spike in cases. we saw the economy slow down. elizabeth: yeah. >> they thought they would be ready for it this time. doesn't look like they are. so you know, that is the kind of lack of confidence in the planning and execution that leads to the results they see on the ground. it is not a vote of confidence in any means. elizabeth: now we have nearly two dozen house democrats showing their vote of confidences or lack thereof of nancy pelosi, they are leaving. 23 is leaving. this is hitting pelosi a grip on power. watch pelosi get heckleed. >> usa. usa. >> mark simone. elizabeth: that is tough tough. you're out in public, you get heckled. nancy pelosi is doing the president you know a surge in misleading rhetoric. said the surge of migrants would be seasonal. that the is taliban would never take over afghanistan.

inflation would be transer to. government spending cost zero. he would cure covid. latest cnn poll, 2/3 of voters have a doubt for his leadership. >> this is an issue for the white house. that is why we know it. why we saw him on a tuesday in december talking about a plan for dealing with covid-19 during the holidays. they have to show some confidence, some ability to understand and project solutions to these issues. the track record on the international front is afghanistan pullout. people know that. track record on southern border is just disarray in the worst migrant problem we've had under any president in the 21st century. and the economy which was supposed to be the strong point is not giving him credit like they had hoped. they have a problem. they have to find a winner somewhere and i think what you're seeing in the house delegation is, we don't really see it in build back better. that is not making any progress and so we're likely to not get reelected. let's pull the plug now. 20 odd democrats in the house

have done that. elizabeth: let's stay on that for a second because "the hill" magazine out of d.c. is reporting that democrats in the senate plan to take a hard ball approach against senator joe manchin. well senator joe manchin did make a $1.8 trillion counteroffer reportedly included universal pre-k, expansion of obamacare, hundreds of billions of dollars to fight climate change but it went south after white house statement singled out manchin for criticism. that was a mistake. manchin is warning we're getting financial crisis with inflation at a 39-year high. white house and far left democrats ignoring inflation hitting mom-and-pop shops, small businesses across the country. everybody feels bullied now by d.c.? i. >> think it's a big problem for the way they're handling this. they could still rescue some of their initiatives perhaps inside of that build back better bill but certainly the notion that majority leader schumer can put

that bill on the floor to take a vote to embarass senator manchin. that would be an an enormous miscalculation. he won't lose senator manchin, he will lose every senate democrat worried about losing election. they will not defend something historically unpopular and generated enormous disapproval ratings for the president. that is not a route for success. they have a leadership crisis. they're using ability to lead instead using it to divide their own party that is a mistake. elizabeth: douglas holtz-eakin, thanks for joining us. good to see you. questions this hour are growing why former nih director francis collins as he was heading out the door aggressively downplayed the possibility that covid-19 leaked from a lab in china. w.h.o. is investigating that. more how his nih funded research in china to create superviruses for vaccines and drugs. up next former federal prosecutor, reports are coming in that special counsel john durham of his criminal probe of

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calling out the clinton campaign and multiple former workers on the campaign with, quote, matters before the special counsel. let's welcome back to the show former federal prosecutor jim trusty. what's the fallout of this? durham's team is also indicating former clinton campaign members may be called to testify. >> yeah, it is interesting. the motion itself is pretty ministerial, pretty pedestrian. it is not a motion to disqualify for a conflict, one option prosecutors can have when they feel strongly. it's a motion to have an inquiry. they want to create appropriate record, a small firm representing two different clients in the same lane will abide by their ethical responsibilities. i know the two attorneys in this case. they are courtroom tigers, they're tough litigants but also very ethical. this is setting up for the court a very limit the inquiry to make sure the clients are okay with a walled off approach within the same law firm. elizabeth: we get that. >> but the big picture, sorry,

liz -- big picture is shows durham's probe is alive and kicking. they are focusing with a microscope on the hillary rodham clinton campaign. elizabeth: i want to get to this. let me break down what you just said. durham is asking the court to review potential conflict of interest. the same law firm is representing both the steele dossier igor danchenko and the hillary camp is also representing the hillary campaign and former workers. it is circular. the clinton campaign financed the anti-trump steele dossier. igor danchenko is a source for that. the law firm is representing both sides. igor danchenko, charged with five counts of lying to the fbi. but when you look at what durham is saying he is looking at the clinton campaign's knowledge about the truthfulness of the anti-trump steele dossier her campaign funded and how much clinton and her team controlled the steele dossier source igor danchenko. how much they knew about the

integrity of his methods. this points to culpability, putting false information inside of the fbi and doj? >> yeah. i mean we know this from the last indictment, from the danchenko indictment, it is clear, durham has kind of shifted his focus to the political lane, not the academic lane we saw in an earlier indictment. it talked about how danchenko was specifically fed false dossier information by someone in the hillary rodham clinton campaign. now we know there is this digging that is going on, potential for testimony or potential for conflicts based on the fact that everyone is going to be tempted to point at somebody else on the chain say, they're the ones that introduced the faulk hood into the process. that is kind of the hub of the potential conflict. but it is a bad day for anyone associated with hillary rodham clinton's campaign including possibly even hillary herself. elizabeth: here is the thing, we know the durham probe are

putting out what they're called, speaking indictments? is that what they're called? not five or 10 pages in the indictment, like 25 or 30 pages. it is like a road map -- >> right. elizabeth: what could come down the road. so when you, sort of like, feels like durham is laying the ground work for a potential charges against the clinton campaign. we don't know either way but that is what it feels like when he is laying out what he is thinking, what the evidence are and what he is looking at what do you think? >> i think that's right. the danchenko indictment was lengthy, i forgot how long now, 30, 40 statement for false statement charges. false statement charges can be written on a cocktail napkin. laying out the involvement of the the hillary rodham clinton campaign. how much attorney/client privilege kicks in to protect people and how much it doesn't. that is real thorny issue. depends how many people are within the communication.

whether someone believes the communication are part of a fraud scheme. so the piercing of the attorney/client privilege is what durham is probably wrestling with behind the scenes when he looks at text messages or looks at emails or talks to people who may have flipped on the clinton campaign. elizabeth: jim trusty, that was really interesting stuff. thanks for your insights there. good to have you back on. come back again soon. >> sure. elizabeth: coming out of the bottom of the hour right now. you're watching the fox business network. fallout of "the financial times" calling out president biden for not making the alarming rise in u.s. crime a national priority. up next congresswoman claudia tenney. why is former nih director dr. francis collins on his way out the door aggressively downplaying the possibility covid-19 leaked from a lab in china? more on how collins's nih funded research in china to create superviruses for vaccines and drugs, dangerous stuff. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business.

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elizabeth: look who is back, congresswoman claudia tenney from house foreign affairs. good to have you on. when you saw the former nih director dr. francis collins joining dr. fauci, downplaying, dismissing the possibility that the coronavirus leaked from a lab in china, called it a huge distraction. what was your reaction? saying this months after collins said yeah, it should be looked into. >> it could be the discovery of emails from last year where they were trying to downplay the great barrington resolution, that was the three, the stanford, oxford, harvard doctors came out said, let's look at this pandemic from a common sense viewpoint. let's do less lockdowns and focus on the most vulnerable, try to get back to a more normal life. it looked like he was trying to suppress that. maybe he has a hand in this same funding that went to the wuhan

lab. this has already been proven. i'm wondering if he feels guilty. then of course he went out singing you know a rendition of "somewhere over the rainbow" where sometimes past the pandemic, a name like that which was kind of creepy i might add. i feel like there might be some culpability and guilt coming out of dr. collins. i would like to see more investigation if he actually has got some involvement with dr. fauci. i think they both, i would love to see dr. fauci fired. i called for that for a long time. dr. collins at least is leaving. elizabeth: "washington post" did a deep dive into government databases earlier, just a few months ago. they found the nih did approve and sign off under director collins $50 million for 18 separate gain of function supervirus research projects inside of china. to create these superviruses for vaccines and drugs. overall the nih funded 65 projects at the wuhan lab and 26

other labs also got funding in china. so we're talking multiple labs in china where they had substandard safety protocols and they're shipping viruses in between these laboratories. this is dangerous stuff. congresswoman, i would like your reaction. listen to nih director first, yeah, the got to look into whether it possibly leaked, then downplay it. we'll get to senator tom cotton on this. watch. >> the possibility that the virus or its proximal ancestor isolated from bats or humans was also under secret study by a chinese laboratory, it was accidentally released by lab error cannot being excluded by the information currently in hand. >> bret, i'm really sorry the lab leak has become such a distraction for so many people. frankly we don't know. there is no evidence to say, we in this country have somehow gotten fractured into a hyper polarized politicized view never been mixed with public health.

it has been ruin news, history will crush harshly those people who continue to dephoning discuss effort and focus on conspiracies are demonstrably false. >> not a distraction. there is no evidence to suggest, much more likely this virus came from a bat which don't live within hundreds of miles of wuhan. already, that it came from some food market which wasn't even selling bats. i said from the very beginning of this pandemic we should obviously look to the lacker to where they were researching bat-based coronaviruses in the middle of a city where this outbreak originated. i think dr. collins and dr. fauci don't want to look at that lab because they were responsible for sending u.s. tax dollars to fund dangerous research to make coronaviruses more transmissible or more lethal there. elizabeth: so how can he say it is demonstrably false this

possibility when the w.h.o. is investigating it, never found animal host, ground zero animal host out of a wet market? >> astounding tom cotton ends up right in this situation as far as we know. all the evidence points that tom cotton was right about this. how astounding he is so political in saying denying what he already admitted. he is the one actually being political and for some reason he is putting out this you know, trying to distract everyone from the fact he could actually have liability in this because of the political maneuvering by the democrats and by the way in the house and in the senate of refusing to get into this, especially in the house where the democrats have a majority. we're not talking about investigating the lab leak and what happened. we're not talking about defunding the chinese communist party and their wuhan funding. the democrats keep putting out bills beneficial to china. the eagle act came out in the foreign affairs committee. they rejected repeatedly any

attempts to look into the truth and/orrery begins of this virus which killed over five million people, 800,000 americans. where is joe biden, our president out there trying to you know, talk about this? nobody is even looking into this. and now his own bureaucrats are leaving because they, and they're going out the door trying to say we shouldn't even look into this. it is really, really political from his viewpoint, the very thing he is trying not to do. i think it is very hypocritical. elizabeth: congresswoman claudia tenney. terrific having you on. come back soon. merry christmas to you. >> thank you. elizabeth: still to come growing concern for illegal immigrants getting sick with covid-19. scientists increasingly warn that the white house is creating a superspreader event at the southern border. congressman austin scott, fallout of "the financial times" calling out president biden for not making the alarming rise in u.s. crime a national priority. keep it here on "the evening edit." back in two.

♪. elizabeth: let's welcome to the show from house armed services. he is the senior member there. he is congressman austin scott. good to see you, congressman. okay, "the financial times" is now calling out president biden for not making rising u.s. crime a national priority. your reaction to that? >> it's way past time and look, this stretches all spectrums of politics. it is from the local prosecutors to the mayors but certainly the president of the united states has a responsibility to address this issue in this country and if you look at him, what his party has done at the border, what they have done with the lack of drug enforcement and we've seen more deaths from drugs this past year than in any of the previous years, they have simply ignored this issue. it has been to the peril of every american including democrats in the country. elizabeth: you know, congressman, to your point, a recent increase in justice department money for local

police, yeah, that will help but that is papering over, it is papering over the democrats underlying weak policies. that is what law enforcement keeps saying. "the ft" is calling out this fact, that the double-digit increases in violent crime and property crime and other crimes, all of the gains made since the 1990s on crime, now thrown in reverse. the fall in crime since the 1990s was one of the most profound social trends since the second world war. now it is thrown out the window. >> that is absolutely right. look at what it is doing to the lives of the people in those communities. look at what it is doing to the economy in those communities where this crime is running so rampant. you lose the tax base that supports not law enforcement community and public education system and other things liberals demand money be spent on destroying their own tax base by ignoring the criminal problem in this country. president biden has a responsibility to address this.

certainly congressional leaders have a responsibility to address this, to work across the aisle to address this and they're just, they're just so scared to offend anybody, that they can't do the job for the american citizens. elizabeth: you make a good point about destroying the local tax base. when crime goes up, you start hitting the stores and the businesses they may pull out and then you don't get the tax revenue. then everybody's property taxes go up. the interesting point "the ft" made was the u.s., the 30% rise in, 30% more homicides in 2020 versus 2019. they're saying for a sense of the historic sharpness of this record. the previous record was 2,000 and 2001. that record was caused by more than 3,000 deaths in the attacks of september 11. that is how bad it is right now. >> that's right. and i think one of the things that they do hit on in the article that is not talked about enough, so many of our senior

law enforcement officers are retiring. they are retiring, when they make a good arrest, they go to a liberal prosecutor that refuses to address the issue. so many of these crimes are committed by the sail person over and over and again. the catch-and-release system the democrats put in place is simply not working for americans. it is not working for democrats, or republicans or independents. president biden has a responsibility to address it, congressional leaders have the responsibility to address it but they're controlled by this far left mindset of a select few in their party that are driving their primaries. so i'm hopeful that more and more statistics will come out, facts, that force the president and democrats on the congressional side to make the adjustments that need to be made. i problem is you, republicans are ready, willing able to work with them on these issues. elizabeth: okay. >> we have got to have some help. elizabeth: democrats, white house, president, they swore an oath to protect.

"the financial times" president didn't mention police or crime in his presidential inaugural address, speech at the democrat convention in 2020 or his speech to the joint session of congress. your final word? >> well if he did the democrats would boo him for it. this democratic party has moved so far to the left that, they, that they're extremists mentality is destroying the country. if he mentions support for law enforcement officers, the democrats in congress, several of them would actually boo the president of the united states for saying something that was pro-law enforcement. elizabeth: curious why they're even sitting there in d.c. congressman austin scott. thanks for joining us. good to see you. up next, texas attorney general ken paxton on the growing concern of health of illegal immigrants getting sick for covid-19. national security experts, scientists increasingly warn the white house has created a superspreader event at the southern border. keep it here on the "the evening edit".

twenty is now, texas attorney general ken paxton, i know you know all about this, we're still getting reports coming in from of national security experts warning the white house created super spreader event at the border. how bad is it?

>> you know i've been talking about this for a long time, acute covid as well as anybody i know and i remember one of our first shows after biden took office, we talked about the president being one of the greatest super spreader's we've ever known and i think it's proven to be true over the months as he slept more and more people cross about testing or vaccinating or wanting to know if they even have covid and spreading them around the country, of course he spreading covid. they're doing it on purpose. liz: we are seeing one out of five or ten, numbers are all over the map, we don't know how many illegal immigrants have covid. we are a humane culture, we don't want to get sick along the way, we should be getting into the country illegally. he will be hit with sexual assault and attacks may be covid, that's what's happening but it's reckless to have the u.s. open border policy when we

have covid virus variant fueling existing pandemics, you are seeing variant coming in potentially from dozens of countries, migrants, 1150 countries they could to earn into a melting pot of covid and people wonder why the numbers are awful. >> you hit it exactly it's not shocking our numbers are getting worse. it is shocking this president. american citizens from crossing the border by flight or however they come from you cannot coming if you have covid in your american citizen but if you are illegal, we are not going to check that and will send you secretly around the country with covid, that tells me i do not care about covid and the fact that they are willing to fire americans for not taking a covid vaccine and at the same time turning a blind eye with no vaccination for those coming across illegally, that doesn't come together and they tell you for some reason they don't care about covid. liz: it's getting so brazing,

footage of illegal immigrants showing up on beaches of florida, let's show the video. the message to the world, you could just walk in, come in wherever whenever you want in the middle of a pandemic. this is astonishing footage of illegal immigrants showing up on the beaches in florida. >> it makes me sad our president is willing to risk the lives of americans, we know people will die from functional overdoses because we have more about been we've ever had in our country because importation is so easy, border patrol busy taking care of these people and transporting so the reality is we have to acknowledge this, the president is willing to sacrifice americans because he wants illegal immigration for whatever reason, it's a reality right now. liz: the president is talking about lifting the banner on travel from eight countries so

that was done to slow down the spread of the omicron. we've got widespread testing for illegals, pretty much nonexistent, only those showing symptoms are required to take a test, is that it? >> none of that makes sense if you care about the spread of covid but clearly there is no desire to stop the spread of covid particularly in republican states. high numbers of covid patients in republican states because they are transporting people largely to republican states. liz: they are relying on patchwork of local government and contractors and nonprofits to do the testing so the responsibility is on the federal government and then you've got a drop in title 42 expulsions, right? if you pushing off testing to contractors or people not really doing up in your hot have to do

title 42, is that what's going on? >> i think that's exactly, they do not want to, you want as many as i can get here, they are inviting them. it's not just not doing their job, they are promoting illegal immigration knowing they will spread more pandemic and covid around the country, it's clear that's what they are trying to do and i don't understand why there's not more of an outcry from both parties. liz: what happens to the border communities, neighborhoods at the border when they have to contend with covid coming and? with their reaction, what is going on? >> they are incredibly frustrated because they are at risk of the disease and going out, risk of dying is going up and they know it and every time there's a new variance in more people crossing the border, it creates exposure. if you talk to these people, they are incredibly scared and fearful of what's going on with this president. liz: great to have you on. thanks for your service to our

country, come back soon. i'm elizabeth mcdonnell, you've been watching the evening at it, that does it for us, we hope you have a good evening. thank you for watching and join us again tomorrow night and merry christmas. ♪♪ kennedy: welcome to it, i'm down by the river because we are getting red, president biden famously said he's the one who will defeat covid with his bare hands but every time he opened a newspaper to turn on the tv, things are getting worse. masks are back, hospital spelling up and cases are doubling every day because people are getting tested in droves so when does the winning begin? are not sick of winning, i'm running for it.