eric adams, the next mayor will be sworn in. i got to tell you for my new year's resolution, i watch my wife rachel with will, pete. ringing the new year on fox news. that will be tomorrow night. if you're looking for something to do in the new year, check out my podcast, from the kitchen table. it is where you can find podcasts. "the evening edit" starts now. elizabeth: tonight america's turning point. democrat state are even moving away from failed shutdowns and restrictions to focus on living with covid. are we moving back to normalcy. it may not feel like that because the politicians keep politicizing the pandemic. look at this, white house empty policies hitting light of day. the president says we're looking at a winter of severe illness and death when biden campaigned he would end the pandemic but

waited a year to increase covid testing. when trump had zero warning of a pandemic would hitt and hit hard. still mobilized a massive private sector response to create vaccines, covid tests, ppe, masks, ventilators. wherever you come down on the political side of the aisle biden inherited all of that. what is the democrat response? keep blaming trump. claim he didn't do enough. demand top-down government mandates and restrictions, fueling this, a health care worker shortage in the middle of the pandemic making little or no effort to partner with the private sector. joining us tonights congressman jeff van drew, lee zeldin, chris stuart, dr. marc siegel, liz peek, "washington times" charlie hurt, former top dhs official chad wolf. look at this bombshell, hillary clinton took a shot at far left progressives. hillary clinton blaming progressives for not getting things done, suggesting they

could cause democrats to lose elections. look at this, social media critics ridiculing president biden quoting anonymous unnamed analysts claiming economic success. we have the numbers that paint a very different story. we'll show you that tonight. reports that the state department is ignoring, even potentially impeding military veterans trying to help rescue americans stranded in afghanistan. we'll break it down. dr. fauci under fire. the highest paid government worker, makes more than the president or four-star generals. he is getting heat for flip-flopping again, this time on vaccine mandates for airline travel indicating it is still on the table. we take a closer look at dr. fauci's little-known support of super lethal virus research, dangerous stuff coming to light. defund the police and democrats hypocrisy. democrats getting personal security after they said defund police. senator tom cotton demanding

that u.s. cities fire all the weak on crime prosecutors that billionaire george soros bankrolled. to the border, the white house still battling against border security with new demands at the supreme court. the white house is criticized for creating the worst border crisis in modern u.s. history. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: again, thanks for joining us, happy new year. you're watching the fox business network. america, looks like it is at a turning point, right to live with covid? the white house coming short on testing after a year attacking trump on the pandemic when the white house inherited vaccines and ppe and more. we have congressman jeff van drew and nyu langone professor the medicine, dr. marc siegel.

happy new year and merry christmas to you both. given that, shortage of tests shouldn't you delay mandate for private sector, how can you have a recommendation to get tested if you can't find a test? >> he shouldn't have the vaccine mandate. it is up to individuals to deal with their health care what is an appropriate way for them individually. i have the vaccine. it doesn't mean you have to have the vaccine. there are many bays of dealing with this disease. hydroxychloroquine, therapeutics, et cetera, that initially were made fun of and of course are not now. i have to tell you one thing, the team that is in charge of doing all that they're doing for biden with covid has to be the same individuals, has to be the same team that planned the exit strategy for afghanistan. it is unbelievable. is there anything, is there anything this president and this majority in the house can do right? is there anytime that they really actually get it?

this is just one more time they don't. they don't follow the science. the science keeps changing. the science changes sometimes. we need to be 14 days away of isolation. we know 10 days. then we need five days. health care workers need a couple extra. who is making this stuff up? you know, just to wrap this up, i remember when fauci said there was no mask necessary in the beginning. then there was one mask. then there were two masks. we wouldn't need masks because we had the vaccine that turned out to be wrong but the vaccine would make sure we never had to worry again. that turned out to be wrong. j&j's isn't good. we know there is third or possibly a fourth vaccine for boosters. what are they doing? let's get fauci out of there. he should be fired. i, he should work for free but really he shouldn't work at all for the united states and he shouldn't be the highest paid person and we need a good team of doctors, epidemiologists,

scientists, just a small team to work, to make sure that we're doing the right and scientific thing. and vaccines, forcing vaccines is not the right thing. elizabeth: well, if we could see that you're riled up about this. you're to the go-to guy with all of the things that were flipped flopped wrong over the past year. dr. siegel, given what the congressman said can we get to new normal? israel is talking about a policy, government policy of herd immunity, living with covid, after a year of failed shutdowns and lockdowns. can we get to new normal, what do you think about natural immunity, herd immunity, what do you say? >> i think the congressman is making great points here. i don't think we should be deliberately infecting people. i don't think that will lead to herd immunity. even with measles that didn't occur until we had the vaccine. immunity whatever you can get

it, vaccine or getting over infection is the way to two. israel from the beginning has said natural immunity is a factor here. if you got sick, you got over covid they give you six months of a pass before you even need a vaccine. the united states has been so rigid. i want to add to another point with the congressman i think he will agree with. there is a tool box here, right? what do you have in the tool box? you have testing. you have therapeutics like the pfizer drug. you have monoclonal antibodies, and you got the vaccine. guess what stool they have? they only have the vaccine. they can't bring us any other tools so they're landing on this vaccine over and over and over. mandates are back firing. as you said in the buildup we don't have health care workers because of mandates. you're mandating vaccine, to your point, liz, you're mandating vaccine what it does best keep you from getting severe illness. that is personal choice. if the vaccine actually prevented spread around the

community, was effective you could consider getting the whole herd to have it. it keeps you from getting sick. i can tell somebody not to smoke. don't smoke because you could get lung cancer. take the vaccine, because without it you could have a severe case. that is personal choice. elizabeth: we hear what you're saying. vaccinations do work. the other thing too, congressman, colorado, pennsylvania, wisconsin, michigan, now they're backing off of shutdowns when they, you know, they supported shutdowns and restrictions for a year. you don't want to get sick with health care worker and nurse shortages, right? we're seeing shortages in colorado, illinois, maryland, rhode island, new mexico, maine, pennsylvania, new jersey, california, they're seeing worker shortages. they're seeing health care worker shortages. you done want to be sick with covid with a nurse or health care shortage, right doctor, i mean congressman. >> absolutely you're right. you know what? you would think they would have

learned this at this point. not only that but our supply chain issues are affected by our covid policy. since our covid policy is wrong and we're not operating correctly with it, therefore we created even more supply chain issues. you know i don't know how many nurses have called me and said, look i was there, and they are, they're working hard on the front line, giving it everything they can. they're told they will be forced to have this vaccine an for whatever reason they don't want to do it, that is their health care right. many of them have -- elizabeth: that is really awful. that is really awful that we're losing health care workers during a crisis. we can't lose health care workers in a crisis to the congressman's point. dr. siegel, we keep seeing mixed messaging coming out of dr. fauci. let's roll on this one. watch this. >> is this based on specific scientific data? is this data published or internal to the cdc? >> it is internal to the cdc.

no specific data one or the other. they made a judgment call on that. likely if you look. at the guide lines that it can go back to five days for the health care workers too if they need that. they are treating peach vaccinated but not boosted as the same risk of those who are not vaccinated at all. that is because right now, with omicron there is a great deal of difference in the level of protection that you get from being boosted following vaccination versus following vaccination alone. elizabeth: okay. let me just slowly walk, let me break this down. give me a minute. he is saying the seven day quarantine for health care workers is a judgment call. then he said getting boosted, let me back up. he said not getting boosted, dr. siegel, is the same, is same as being unvaccinated. i mean is this true? >> no. being vaccinated decreases the

severity of illness like getting over covid does. the booster, because the vaccine wanes, brings you to another level of protection you're likely to get a very mild case. in terms of returning to the workforce i'm all for that. can you imagine how empty the streets would be if they stuck to a 10-dane quarantine. i don't think people are following the quarantine any day. if you're infected, milder virus, omicron. comes on more quickly and rapidly. what is quickly, what has a huge outcry, they don't have the rapid tests, can't test you, now you're clear, go back to work. that is causing a lot of anger and controversy. bottom line though there is no way we can sustain this workforce with such a prolonged isolation period. it had to be shorter. but the vaccine is something that should be discussed with doctors. elizabeth: we hear you. >> it should be discussed with your doctor and discussed with the community and told all of this mandating isn't working.

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♪. elizabeth: okay. the white house started the year in victory, right? but now it is ending in confusion. d.c. watchdogs, look at this they're warning that democrats want to do an unconstitutional end-run around congress, pressuring the president to enact his agenda via executive orders or executive action. now congress has the powers of the purse. now that purse on spending has ballooned to record size. lydia hu has more. reporter: liz, the country starts the new year with nearly $30 trillion in debt and is already paying one billion dollars in interest per day on that amount. that is according to the peter g. peterson foundation. now lawmakers are considering more spending with president biden's $1.7 trillion build back

better agenda as we enter the new year. the congressional budget office found the version of the plan that pass house in november would add $365 billion to the deficit through 2031. that is not including $207 billion in revenue from irs enforcement. some republicans are calling for more oversight, demanding a balanced budget amendment to the constitution but for now it seems the national debt is snowballing. look at this. when president clinton left office in 2001, the debt was more than $5.6 trillion. it nearly doubled during president george w. bush's administration to 10.6 trillion and nearly doubled again to almost $20 trillion during president barack obama's administration. nearly $8 trillion was added during the trump administration to reach more than $27 trillion. liz, if we needed to pay off the

near $30 trillion in debt we have right now, u.s. debt clock.org says each taxpayer would owe more than $233,000. back to you. elizabeth: lydia hu, thank you so much. joining us now is fox news contributor and economic expert liz peek. liz, it is great to have you back on. good to see you, merry christmas and happy new year. i would like you to listen to this sound bite. hillary clinton, hillary clinton took a shot at far left progressives blaming them for not getting things done and blaming them for democrats to lose elections. >> i think it is time for some careful thinking about what wins elections and not just in deep blue districts where a democrat and a liberal democrat or so-called progressive democrat is going to win. i understand why people want to argue for their priorities. that's what they believe they

were elected to do. look, i'm all about having vigorous debate. i think it's, it's good and it gives people a chance to be part of the process but at the end of the day it means nothing if we don't have a congress that will get things done and we dope have a white house that we can count on to be sane, and sober, and stable and productive. elizabeth: sounds like hillary is throwing the far left under the bus. what do you say? >> well she's right, liz. the progressives have led the democrats off a really steep cliff. now they're wondering how this all happened? it happened because bernie sanders was instrumental in getting joe biden in the white house. so that wing of the party has had an outsized influence in the agenda, and a very loud voice. if you look at the very important special elections that took place across the country this year, not one progressive

beat out a moderate candidate in mostly districts that were very democrat but not extremely democrat. that is to say, yes they would always win elections but it wasn't like 90 to 1. hillary clinton is right, the people making the moats noise like aoc are people who are in districts that will never ever go republican. they have forced on their party policies like those that dumb down law enforcement, defunding the police. americans will turn against in spades in 2022. so i think hillary's right. it shocks me they're are not more saying that. elizabeth: hillary is probably one of the only ones standing up, saying, listen you guys on the far left, you're doing the party wrong. "the financial times" editorial board says far left progressives and biden's misjudged the nation's mood too. social media critics, president biden you boasted about your

economic record quoting anonymous analyst. the white house is claiming six million jobs, 4% jobless rate. applications for small businesses are up 30%. they're claiming economic victory. what do you say? >> i think, i say joe biden came into office with the economy already growing at 6%, with the recovery well underway. they haven't created jobs. they have put jobs back where they were to begin with. we have never shut down our economy the way we did last year, liz. all these recovereds and so -- records are kind of meaningless. we have lower real wage growth because inflation is outpacing wage growth, so people are feeling pain. only 22% of the country thinks the economy is good or excellent. that really tells you all you need to know. elizabeth: you know, liz, economist steve moore writes that people keep telling him quote, i didn't like some of the things trump said or the way he acted, i have to admit i liked what he did for the economy. he is saying basically the

white house claims much their economic success, steve moore is saying no. you have to look at the underlying numbers around he is saying the best advocate vindicating trump policies are all the things you just detailed and more. it is not just anyone nation. it is also gas prices going up. its falling pay paychecks eroded by inflation. remember "the washington post" 2016 headline said trump will destroy the world economy. that didn't happen. >> no, it didn't happen. when you take away regulations which is one thing that donald trump did particularly for small businesses, lower taxes, give people more incentives to work the economy really begins to hum. investment goes up, productivity goes up. wages go up. what we've had is unbelievable pumping up of the economy through government spending. you just had a piece about the government debt. that is fueling a lot of growth as is the enormous increase,

5 trillion-dollar increase in the fed's balance sheet. this is not going to end well, liz. i think the fed is way behind the curve. this is not very sustainable. elizabeth: liz peek, thanks for joining us. it is good to see you. come back soon. >> happy new year. elizabeth: border crisis the white house still fighting against border security making new demands at the supreme court as the white house is now criticized for creating the worse border crisis in modern u.s. history. up next, house foreign affairs, congressman lee zeldin. reports that the state department is ignoring military veterans requests, maybe impeding them. they're trying to help rescue americans stranded in afghanistan. keep it here on "the evening edit". ♪♪ ♪♪

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome to the show from house foreign affairs, york congressman lee zeldin. great to have you back on. the white house is saying after the president talked with russia's vladmir putin today about the russian troupe build up at the ukraine border, if russia decides to do any aggressive military action there, it will be met with a substantial reaction from the u.s. what do you say to that? >> listen, if they're going to put a red line out on the table at all, if it is going to get crossed no matter which adversary of our country you're ever talking about, you have to be willing to enforce the red line. will russia make the move is the

big question? there is a lot of suspicion as just how prepared the biden administration is, just how prepared the president is to be able to respond with strength, with allies with, a coalition, understanding our adversaries don't respect weakness, only respect strength. nobody wants to see us -- elizabeth: we hear you about that. >> we don't want to get in another war. i hope russia makes the move because i'm concerned about the posture of this president. elizabeth: there is another thing too, moving on to this, foreign policy review the state department believes as many as 14,000 u.s. citizens were stranded in afghanistan. that is a new report coming out. "the national review" is revealing that the biden state department, is quote, actively impeding project dynamo, military veterans trying to rescue americans from afghanistan. i would like you to listen to representative pete meyer on this. watch. >> we've been working with the state department, the department of homeland security, throughout the inneragency process, not

just on the the on evacuations that took place but ongoing evacuations that need to occur. they have been a stymieing slow force at every turn. it flows back from the top from the oval office from the president. there is no sense of urgency or no comb passion or concern from those left behind. until that changes we'll see a delayed, drawn out and frankly deadly process we've seen so far. elizabeth: your reaction? >> that's right. we've seen this since august as the taliban is taking over afghanistan. a lot of coming out of this administration was about the narrative. they were talking through it. the story for domestic politics. wanting to move to change the subject. we're not seeing leadership, the cooperation that we needed from the state department, from the administration. this, fortunately we've had a whole lot of americans and others who were motivated, they want to help. they see people who are stuck

behind enemy lines. they want to do their part. members of congress was working with them, working with their contacts back here in the u.s., trying to make contact as a member of congress to try to get some help. fortunately there are people that have been evacuated. way too many people stuck behind enemy lines and this president said that wasn't going to help but it did. elizabeth: now you got this, now you have this, congressman. msnbc writer is saying that former president donald trump's policies towards iran are more damaging to american credibility than president biden's botched withdrawal from afghanistan. let me give you the quote. from parsi, cofounder of the quincy institute. she is saying that by pulling out of the nuclear deal with iran trump inflicted more damage to american credibility than withdrawal from afghanistan. what do you say to that? >> i couldn't possibly disagree anymore. i believe the president's approach towards iran with maximum pressure, president trump that is, was right on many

different levels, withdrawing from the fatally flawed iran nuclear deal, ramping up sanctions. making sure we were cutting off the regime, taking out kassem soleimani from the battlefield. when you look at the maximum pressure campaign of president trump, of his administration, actually president biden was inheriting a lot he shouldn't have been trying to roll back as he did. we felt, i felt, as a member of congress during the obama administration, we were treating israel like iran and iran like israel but for four years, that was reversed. we were treating iran like iran and israel like israel. we're going backwards right now. i don't disagree with that assessment anymore. elizabeth: got it. congressman, lee zeldin, thanks for joining us. good to see you. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. you're watching the fox business network. still to come, crime in america. we've got defund police democrats accused of hypocrisy.

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♪. elizabeth: joining us now congressman chris stewart from house intelligence. it is great to have you back on, congressman. i want you to listen to the sound bite because dr. fauci is getting criticized for being the highest paid worker in the government. he makes more than the president or four-star generals. he will get a big fat pension

too. he is flip-flopping throughout the pandemic on vaccines to fly on airplanes. congressman he says it is still on the table. watch this. >> if there is a need to do more beyond this masking mainly having a vaccine issue, we will seriously consider that as new information arises. it is just keeping an open mind that the situation may change but at this particular time we do not feel that is necessary to make that a requirement for domestic flights. elizabeth: congressman he has been manipulative in the past. to get more people vaccinated. people don't trust what is coming out of the administration. what do you say? >> i mean, oh, my gosh, where to begin on this. look, the american two people expect two things from dr. fauci, nih and world health

organizations and expect him to tell the truth and they expect him to consider the overall bug picture. they have done neither of those things. dr. fauci admitted he was dishonest about masks at the very beginning. we know he lied to congress about gain of function research. he poo-pooed, no, it is a conspiracy theory to consider it could have leaked from the lab. very clearly should have considered that. he was not honest. no not surprising people don't trust him. very quickly, you have to consider the overall cost, what have we done with our kids, canceling school and forcing two-year-olds to wear mask? what about mental health and suicide? the fact that u.s. had 300,000 children starve to death last year because of supply chain interruptions. dr. fauci focuses on one thing so severely he won't consider the overall public good or overall mental health of the american people. honestly he just hasn't -- elizabeth: stay on this.

stay on him, dr. fauci supporting dangerous supervirus research in order to get drugs or vaccines. he has written articles about this. we have studied his history going back over a generation. they have been, nih has been funding this dangerous research since 2002. in 2012 he wrote an article a supervirus with pandemic potential could leak out after lab because after inexperienced researcher but still the benefits of those experiments outweigh the risk, so you create a supervirus in a laboratory to get drugs, even if it leaks to cause a pandemic that still outweighs the risk and benefits of that research. he is saying those of us in the scientific community have a responsibility to address any concerns about that thought fully and respect philly but even "the washington post," other media are stonewalling him about the funding of this

dangerous research in labs. he is not transparent. he is defensive when questioned on gain of function, right? that is the issue too. >> and surely hindsight has taught us some lessons over the last two years. for those who advocated for this kind of research, said it was potentially worth the risk, how in the world do you justify that now? how in the world by any measure whether it is human life or economic, or social cost, suicide, mental health, how in the world can you come back to make the argument it is worth it? by the way you said something i think is the key, transparency and honesty once again. if he felt that way before, don't deceive people now. be honest about the positions you took. be honest about the funding you approved. elizabeth: scientists say, you don't need this research for pandemics. scientists at harvard, across the country saying you don't need it. and now the thing is, we have not found the animal host and we

have yet to find this virus occurring naturally in nature. so that is still at issue. congressman chris stewart, great to have you back on. come back again soon. good to see you. happy new year. elizabeth: up next, "washington times" charlie hurt, is saying this, fed up, defund the police democrats accused of hypocrisy getting their own police security detail while saying defund the cops. also senator tom cotton demanding u.s. cities, fire, get rid of them all the weak on crime prosecutors that billionaire george soros bankrolled. keep it here on "the evening edit". using less or a lot less oral pain medicines. and improved quality of life. that's why we recommend salonpas. it's good medicine.

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show fox news contributor, "washington times" opinion editor, he is charlie hurt. charlie, so great to have you back on. charlie, i know your hair probably lit up on fire when you saw this. good to see you. you know democrats that said

defund the police? now we have incoming new york city comptroller, he is brad lander, he said defund police. he is getting a nypd police detail. the new york city mayor, outgoing mayor bill de blasio has yet to repay taxpayers the 320,000 he spent on nypd security services for his failed presidential campaign. they're all about defund police and getting cop details. >> yeah. it is really incredible, liz. of course we saw this a couple months ago in washington where you have a lot of these democrats who have been calling for defund the police and celebrated all the riots over the summer getting their own personal police detail. of course they're provided very own police department there on capitol hill, even as they call for defund the police but i got to tell you, seeing this sort of hip hypocrisy at level in cities, we're seeing knit chicago, seeing it in california, seeing it in new york, people are making decisions to actually

defund the police. members of congress have less control over that stuff though they were celebrating it. when these people, they're making actual decision on the ground that affect peoples lives, literally, literally a matter of life and death. when they display that kind of hip pongs hypocrisy, it is the worse of the gutter politics and leads to peoples's live endangered. elizabeth: a police officer in baltimore, hawley, shot in the head. that happened. baltimore's murder rate is higher than el salvador. chicago cops saying to senior citizens in chicago don't answer the door if somebody is claiming to work for the city to check your water, whatever. two or three suspects, approaching senior citizens, getting them out of their home. posting as city water department workers and robbing them. watch seattle business owner,

charlie. he has had it. listen to this gentleman. watch. >> i'm done. i'm tired. i can't do it anymore. the guy, he came in yesterday in the morning, break in easy, break in the front door, you know, just break in with a big piece of metal, alarm ring. walking around, he knows, nothing is going to happ even if he gets caught. elizabeth: charlie, that small business owner was robbed eight times. eight times. senator tom cot man is saying, you know what? you got to start firing those u.s., excuse me those d.a.s bankrolled by billionaire george soros. that is where you start. what do you say. >> oh absolutely. he is exactly right about it. you look at a business owner like that, these are people, obviously you and i both know this, all of our viewers know this, these are people trying to make their neighborhoods better. they're trying to make america a great place in which to live and

they're being destroyed by d.a.s like this who refuse to do their, most basic responsibility of protecting the innocent and maintaining law and order. and the result is, a much worse place where you know, where people are, again, you know, it is a mater of life and death in a lot of cases. when it is not a matter of life and death, it is materially destroying what is great about this country. elizabeth: really just pathetic, right? where does the u.s. taxpayer get any say in these insane policies? taxpayer is paying a terrible price. your final word. >> absolutely. those d.a.s are working for taxpayers. the taxpayers are the only ones not being represented in these cases. elizabeth: charlie hurt, always great to have you on, merry

christmas, happy new year to you. >> happy new year. elizabeth: have a good weekend coming up. we'll have you back on soon. up next, former top dhs official chad wolf on the border crisis. the biden administration with new demands on the supreme court. it is creating the worst border crisis in history. you're watching fox business. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire hi, my name is cherrie. i'm 76 and i live on the oregon coast. matching your job description. my husband, sam, we've been married 53 years. we love to walk on the beach. i have two daughters and then two granddaughters. i noticed that memories were not there like they were when i was much younger. since taking prevagen, my memory has gotten better and it's like the puzzle pieces have all been

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the biden administration asked the supreme court to rule on whether required to keep the trump era remain in mexico policy, william has more. >> look at the plate, what is your goal? if it to deter and reduce illegal immigration remain in mexico makes sense but if your role is to explore root causes of immigration believe all immigrants have a right to file a time and can remain until the judge decides otherwise that is a bad idea for the president trump implement the policy 2019 to stem the flow of central americans and capture movies. president biden reverses that calling it inhumane. >> the biden administration announced takes make things

safer but unfortunately many of these acts of violence are undertaken and corrupt officials in mexico. >> after texas sued federal court reinstated the policy in august and now biden wants the supreme court to overturn it say it's not the best tool for deterring unlawful migration, it exposes migrants to unacceptable risks detracts from executives foreign relations efforts to manage regional migration. since biden took office the border apprehensions more than doubled. >> every single u.s. citizen should be furious about the actions of this administration trying to overturn a policy that's been proven to work. >> 60000 asylum-seekers enrolled in the program 723 asylum, half never showed and the other half had pending claims when biden terminated the program which is now at the supreme court.

>> thank you for your journalism there. joining us now for reaction, former acting dhs secretary chad wolf. the white house biting this at the supreme court level, what is your reaction to this? >> it's not surprising, trying to kill the remain an mexico program twice by policy memorandum and repute and now the other supreme court trying to fight again. at the end of the day what demonstrates is the biden administration is not for enforcement of border security or immigration enforcement at the end of the day. if they don't like the remain in mexico and they need an alternative program and policy in place and we see they are not doing that. they're not talking to law enforcement professionals, there's border patrol agents who want remain in mexico and boardwalk system, they are simply not listening to them and it's causing the worst water crisis we've seen in our history. >> and there's missed

apprehensions of who is allowed to claim asylum. if you're coming for economic reasons, you can't claim asylum and you can't stay in the u.s. while you wait your court date. they are trying to basically rewrite asylum policy here. >> the idea is that if you are truly fearing from your life in other parts of the world and you have no problem waiting in mexico until your court proceedings can be heard in the u.s. as the individuals abusing the asylum system, no they don't have a fraudulent claim and therefore don't want to wait in mexico, that's not there". it's to be released in the u.s. and that's why they don't like the remain an mexico program and immigration activists saying the same thing in pushing the administration to do away with it. >> so we have nearly 2 million illegal immigrant caught at the border, potentially 1 million

getaways when you count the 400,000 getaways and visa overstates, 600,000. the white house watched one of the most dangerous border policies in modern history leading to historical rise in all of that and illegal immigrant crime and border communities are exhausted. >> be it administration has been a failure when it comes to border security and immigration enforcement so on top of all of the things you said, they are telling ice officers to not enforce the law or do their job and leave individuals inside the united states who have no legal right to be here so whether it in the border or at the border or the interior of the country, this administration has no interest in enforcing the law and refused to listen to dhs law enforcement officers so across the board the worst policies and implementation of policies i've seen in my lifetime and the american people have seen.

>> chat, what percentage of asylum-seekers have legitimate claims? >> during the trump administration, that hovered 10% to about 11 or 12% so you had vast majority of folks, upwards of 85 -- 87% of individuals did not have a legitimate asylum claim at the end of the day if they went through court proceedings on immigration judge, their claim was denied and they know this the biden administration knows this as well, immigration activists know this as well but they push for catch and release policies because their end goal is to keep the individuals and migrants here in the united states, they don't want them removed to their home companies countries even though they have no legal right to remain here in the u.s. >> is the white house win at the supreme court level? >> i don't think so, it's been overturned or put back in place by lower courts and i hopefully

they will make a good effort to actually implement the policy. >> thanks so much, merry christmas and happy new year to you. i'm elizabeth mcdonald, you've been watching for evening edit on foxbusiness. thank you for watching, we hope you have a good evening and a happy new year. ♪♪ >> promises made, promises broken. that pretty much sums up the biden administration's handling of the pandemic and now seems like joe and company are doubling down on the policies that have already failed so why do they keep putting the country on this miracle ground from hell? then candidate biden in 2021 and part by making promises that he probably knew were impossible to keep. promises like covid. >> the administrations failure on testing is colossal