country. nobody is going to break us. we're strong. we're ukrainians. david: wow. that does it for us on "fox business tonight." thank you so much for watching. we'll see you back here tomorrow. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. >> tonight we'll bring you a preview what the president will say in his state of the union address just hours from now. can he calm a nation on edge? polls show americans are angry, war in ukraine, record inflation, crime, illegal border crossings, botched pandemic shutdowns, trump also weighing in. we'll show you how the white house is relentless topspin is dragging down biden's bad poll numbers. now ranking among the worst in modern u.s. history. even obama officials say the topspin is wrong. also this breaking news, putin

is doubling down, a new and ferocious blitz in ukraine. it is turning into bloody urban warfare much like chechnya. putin a world pariah. nearly 700,000 fleeing ukraine. nearly 140 dead including children. we've got the white house big fail on history. experts warn it is why you cannot trust the president, his team, the white house press secretary any longer. they ignore what could help stop putin it. it is what helped trigger the collapse of the soviet union. heartwrenching stories show the importance of the coverage in ukraine but media stateside criticized for chaotic, politicized narrow coverage and "the view"'s joy behar getting blasted for an insensitive remark. we've got the sound. a real and present danger a growing threat, china, russia, teaming up to dominate the world economy in a way that could really slam the u.s. for good. and multiple trucker convoys making their way to d.c. to protest unconstitutional mandates.

more and more blue states continue to follow the florida texas already did in just saying no. a potential turning point against the president over his worder crisis. a major democrat voting bloc at the border now switching to the gop. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" start right now. elizabeth: we begin with the white house hope for political reset with president's state of the union amid a historical rick drop if his polls, inflation, pandemic lockdowns and war. americans want to know what is the president's compelling and cohern plan? watch republicans sit this one out and not stand for applause. edward lawrence in washington with more. reporter: overshadowed by the invasion of ukraine. state of the union will start with talking about ukraine. the president will state the

u.s.'s affirmation to stand with the solidarity with ukraine as well as reaffirm that the sanctions will work. he will say that putin was wrong and we were ready. the ambassador to the u.s. from ukraine is going to be the first lady's guest in her box there. the president will pivot from ukraine and talk about how strong the economy is. he will tell the american people that it is his doing. the president will say, that the word inflation will be in his script saying that he is a better plan to fight it and then call on american companies to bring jobs back to the u.s. adding this, instead of relying on foreign supply chains let's make it in america. a large part of the speech willing about the economy. >> not only the progress we've made, we made a lot of economic progress but his commitment to addressing prices, addressing costs, addressing inflation and that will be part of what he talks about this evening in the speech. reporter: the president will say that my plan to fight inflation will lower your costs and lower

the deficit. he will also hit climate change. on that front he will stress the need to make fundamental changes based on the environment. republicans pointing out that the president's low poll numbers saying he is not governing like he said in the campaign. >> he is in this kind of shape because he deserves to be in this kind of shape. raging inflation, uncontrolled border, in my view too late to deter putin and had we taken some of these steps earlier this might not have happened. the president's in a tough position because he deserves to be in a tough position. reporter: once thing to point out, liz, that the science apparently changed today. d.c. removed the mask mandates today just in time for the state of the union. back to you. elizabeth: edward lawrence great to see you. thanks for your journalism there. the dow, get a check of your money. nearly lose 600 points. s&p and nasdaq drop as war in

ukraine oil breaks to a seven-year high. a global release of 60 million barrels from reserves around the world disappoints. it is less than a day's global demand. the president released half of that, 30 million barrels from the strategic reserve. joining us now former deputy national security advisor kt mcfarland, along with former white house chief of staff mick mulvaney. the mick, first to you. by the way great to have you both on. mick you wrote two state of the union addresses and involved in two more. >> i didn't write them. stephen miller wrote them. they will be making last minute changes. they're probably working on the speech right now. these speeches take four, five, six weeks to write. they will go through changes especially what is happening with ukraine, they're rewriting the speech right now. we'll see ukraine early. after that when he starts to transition to his domestic policy what we'll be looking for where he spends his time, not what comes first or last but will he spend 30 seconds on a topic or a minute 1/2. where you can really get insight

to where the administration wants to spend its time during the next year. that is what i will be looking for. after ukraine, that will be very interesting, on the domestic policy where does he spend most of his time, not what comes first or last in the speech. elizabeth: we hear you mick. kt, to mick's point he will send half a billion dollars to u.s. cities to fight crime, hire more cops, against defund the police this is dragging down his poll numbers. will americans really believe the president when he says the state of the union is strong? >> no. you know lost all credibility, particularly on the inflation issue and when he says oh, inflation will get so much better because of my policies, no it's not. it is about to get a whole lot worse primarily because of his energy policy. elizabeth: you know, to kt's point it is the energy policy, mick. also by the way the gop rebuttal will be delivered by kim reynolds the governor of iowa. mick, democrats are furious that

rashida tlaib will also have a response. kt, what you're saying as well, mick, president is facing a brutal plunge in the polls. let's show what cnn what quinnepiac, across the board you see a real drop, a plunge in his poll numbers. mick, and kt, it's a constant barrage of misleading topspin from the white house that is really slamming biden's poll numbers, mick. take that on. first to you. >> it will be hard, when writing a speech it will be hard to say look at all the wonderful things i've done as president i solved all these problems when people know differently back home, they know things are more expensive. it will be hard for him to take credit for doing good at the same time like he understands ordinary people. donald trump was very good at it. bill clinton many years ago was good at it. i'm not sure biden is good at it, a difficult message when people know they're hurting. elizabeth: when people know they're hurting that is what mick said, kt the people out there are feeling page.

white house press secretary jen psaki again is misleading. she equated president's speech tonight to obama's speech during the financial crisis and president bush's speech about 9/11. bush's joint address was delivered nine days after 9/11. it is topspin dragging down biden's poll numbers, do you agree? >> yeah. here's the thing, he is missing an extraordinary opportunity. yesterday the german government led by the most radical environmentalist party, the green party, has completely reversed course. so they have said, look, we're going back we'll revisit nuclear power. we might even go back to coal power. we want to get off the blackmail that the russian energy puts us in a bad position. so they have already gone there. president biden, if he is worried about his political spin and top cover he has great cover. he could say we agree with the germans. we're going to revisit american energy policy. i may have shut this stuff down at the beginning of my administration but we've now seen in ukraine what the

russians are willing to do with their windfall profits from high energy prices and with the leverage of blackmail they have over the european countries. so i am going to have a whole new policy here. i'm going to reopen the american energy industry. i will export liquified natural gas to the europeans to help them with their national security. it helps us with our national security. yeah, he could reset his entire presidency liz in the first ten minutes of his speech and. i think he will look back at that we'll all look back at that as an extraordinary missed opportunity. elizabeth: we hear you loud and clear, kt by the way i want to turn to what former president trump has been saying. we know that the former governor of new jersey, chris christie has been slamming former president trump for calling putin a genius. the president trump, former president saying he doesn't support russia or putin. he was saying he was referring to putin's military strategy which is something different than media has been portraying it. let's watch trump at cpac over

the weekend. watch this. >> we should not be buying russian energy but rather allow the people of our country to start producing like they did just one year ago. under bush russia invaded georgia. under obama russia took crimea. under biden russia invaded ukraine. i stand as the only president of the 21st century on whose watch russia did not invade another country. [applause] you can take the five worst presidents in american history and put them together and they would not have done the damage that joe biden and his administration has done in just a very short 13 months. [applause] elizabeth: mick, your reaction? >> yeah. i think he is exactly right message for him to send. by the way one of the things people forget trump didn't start any wars. actually probably prevented many

of them from taking place. i think his point about military genius so forth is being misinterpreted. what he is saying after what putin saw the world respond, how they responded to crimea how could you blame him for thinking they wouldn't respond in an aggressive fashion here? i think that is the message he is trying to deliver. putin is simply responding to the things the world has shown him in the past. donald trump there is spot on if he were president i do not think that russia would be invading ukraine tonight. elizabeth: kt, you know, biden is talking a gas tax holiday, drawdowns from the strategic reserves that only moved oil prices last fall by 10 cents. they dribble out over four or five months. it is not immediate impact from the spr but the gop led by steve scalise, kt, is saying why is the white house, why is the president empowering and enabling putin's war in ukraine by exempting from sanctions russian energy? your word on that, final word? >> yeah.

and donald trump in that same speech, i was there at cpac, inn that same speech he said when he met with putin he warned him don't you come near ukraine. in addition to that, donald trump told the germans and nato why should we pay for your defense if you're becoming dependent upon russia, oil and natural gas. it is same issue. it is the same issue. always comes back to american energy policy. biden is dead wrong what he has done. elizabeth: kt, mick, always great to have you on. come back soon. to this story, the white house big fail on history. why you cannot trust the president and his team any longer. they ignore what could help stop putin. it is what helped trigger the collapse of the soviet union. we'll dig deeper next on "the evening edit." >> it was our european allies who actually were more forceful than the u.s. so we lagged behind. ♪. with pronamel repair toothpaste, we can help actively repair

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white house why are you subsidizing putin's war buying 20 million barrels a month? why did the white house carve out russian energy from sanctions? why is it not sanctioning russian oil as the u.s. sanctioned iran's oil? >> liz, this is a really, really critical question and, by the way, i just want to really send my condolences to what we're seeing. i think some americans are inspired by the courage that we're seeing with regard to ukrainians, but you're right, it is carnage right now and one of the biggest problems we have with the biden administration, they're doing exactly what you said. in many ways they're funding this war. it sounds twisted but in many ways it is true. i am leading a letter with 23 republicans. we just sent it to the president, saying mr. president, your tonight at the state of the union you have to do a major course correction in many areas.

where we really focus on what you just talked about, energy. elizabeth: the white house press secretary dodged questions why the u.s. is buying oil from russia. you know, the white house is shutting down the u.s. oil industry and oil price plunge and sanctions on steroids. it triggered the collapse of the soviet union in the 1980s. watch this. >> at this point are you ready to pledge not to buy anymore russian gas? >> well as you know it is really -- let me give you an update on this because it's, i think there has been a little confusion. one moment. so, as it relates to russian gas, u.s. government doesn't dictate where the u.s. market sells our own oil and gas markets or acquires crude or refined products from domestic consumption. i would also note on oil leases, what this actually justifies in

president biden's view we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, on oil in general. elizabeth: you know what, all right, okay. the white house is ignoring history. senator, it is settled fact that the seven wrote fact that reagan got saudi arabia to open spigots in 1985. oil dropped to $10 a barrel. russian economy is built on oil. that is where it gets its power. why is the country being misled by rhetoric by jen psaki and white house. it led to regime change in algeria, morocco, iraq, it is powerful stuff. not saying good for regime changes but how the soviet union collapsed. >> you're exactly right. what is happening here is the continuation of biden administration holy war on american energy. get this they are almost daily going up to my great state of alaska trying to shut down the production of american energy. yet we're now importing 700,000-barrels a day of oil

from russia. that is up 35% a year ago when the biden administration took office. so one of the most important things we can do to seriously undermine putin is put sanctions and a blockade on russian oil, just like you said. just like we did with iran. by the way the canadians announced that today. elizabeth: right. >> we have asked the president tonight to announce it in his state of the union. this isn't just republicans. i know senator manchin has been pressing for this as well. it just makes strategic sense and it will help our country domestically. it will help our national security. what they're doing right now is national security suicide. they are -- elizabeth: what joe manchin is saying a democrat. putin rebuilt his military since 1999 on the back of high oil. he has been doing it for 20 years. putin was in office, obama was in office, putin invades crimea.

when oil was down to 27 years ago nobody heard from putin. >> that's right. elizabeth: your point is well-taken. even democrat senator joe manchin is saying this is clear and present danger to our nation's security, what the white house is doing letting the u.s. buy russian oil is bad. what is the choice? we protect our soldiers, we ramp up u.s. production and kill u.s. production and put our soldiers in harm's way. by the way how is white house oil buys from russia better for the planet better than the keystone pipeline? >> it's not. and here's the thing, the president in a press conference just a few days ago told the american people he was using all the tools available that he had to address this energy challenge. well, what we said in our letter to him was that, mr. president, with all due respect, that is not telling the truth to the american people. we listed 12 things in our

letter to him that he could announce tonight, sanctions on russian oil, approve keystone xl, make sure we're drilling in alaska and anwar and the gulf of mexico and oh by the way, the other thing we list is firing john kerry who is a disgrace to our country. these are all things he could announce tonight that would start to turn the table on putin, but right now they're looking the other way on this critical issue of energy. elizabeth: senator dan sullivan, it's a pleasure having you on. thanks for spending time with us. come back soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: just ahead a growing threat as russia is hit with sanctions. russia and china ramp up a push to knock aside the u.s. in the world economy. we'll explain it to you. first, protecting constitutional rights. multiple trucker convoys across the nation heading to washington to protest pandemic mandates. despite what media is saying this is happening. we'll bring the story next.

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i welcome them to washington, d.c. i'm glad they're coming. they need to be here. these are salt of the earth people. they don't ever ask for anything. they just want their freedom. they just want their freedom. i think we've all seen in america with the supply side challenges that truckers are essential workers. these people work hard. they pay taxes and they're sick and tired of the government mandates. they're sick and tired of government policy that is holding them back, making it harder to operate. they just want their freedom. i'm glad they're coming. i hope democrats in washington hear them loud and clear. elizabeth: there are hundreds of national guard troops potentially going to be deployed in d.c. let's back up. about half a dozen provinces in canada including alberta and nova scotia, they are set to end their covid restrictions after the trucker protest. an ipsos poll found 54% of canadians believe those protests did have at least some effect on

the provinal government easing restrictions. we're seeing states pulling back. so put all of that in that context. >> i think the american politicians are learning what canadian politicians learned the hard way, and that is the trucker are more popular than the politicians. the average canadian thinks just like the average american that we need truckers a whole lot more than we need liberal politicians. so i think as truck remembers making their way here, you will hear more and more liberal mayors, liberal governors say you know what? i think the covid thing time to move on. why you're seeing tonight at the state of the union for the first time in two years nancy pelosi ended the mask mandate. people are going to be on the house floor without wearing masks. the truckers made a difference. this is what a grass roots movement is all about. elizabeth: the question where is the science of those decisions, right? now we see california, oregon, washington, joining delaware ending mask mandates in schools. seven total are dropping that

the connecticut governor says nearly 90% of schools in connecticut will drop mask rules. new york city is dropping covid vaccine passports. >> yeah. i mean one thing that politicians usually can comprehend is a poll and the polls are overwhelmingly showing that americans are fed up with these covid mandates. they're ready to get back to normal. they see states like florida, south dakota, tennessee where they never stopped. they kept on with their normal lives without all of the government mandates. they prospered and done well. they're sick and tired of not only the mandates on our workers but on our children. and hopefully the last bastion of mandates are still, our children in these city public school systems where they're still required to wear masks. hopefully this trucker movement will make an end to that too. elizabeth: congressman, "the new york times" is reporting pfizer's, pfizer's shot is far less effective in

five to 11-year-olds than older kids. the data comes in on vaccines still pretty new to the market even though we've got officials in washington saying, you know, yes to boosters, yes to vaccinating children, right? when the new data come in, you see stories like that, people say hey wait a second, what about your directives and earlier guidance? there is that. we had sweden's chief epidemiologist, sweden our approach is doing what the w.h.o. said reported in 2019, what the uk did. that the pandemic playbooks of shutdowns do not work. that is based on data from the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. >> science always show that the school is the safest place. that children are the least susceptible tock hospitalized because of covid. it is unfortunate what our schoolchildren had to go through the past year, especially in cities, school systems run by the teachers unions. hopefully this will never happen again.

it is just real disappointing because the science has been so inconsistent and fauci has been all over the board. the american people are fed up with this. elizabeth: where is dr. fauci now? that is reports coming in. we'll be on the story. congressman comer. good to see you. we're coming out of bottom of the hour. watching fox business network. a real growing danger and threat. russia and china are teaming up to control the world economy that could slam the u.s. for good. on this crisis, nearly 700,000 fleeing the bloodshed in ukraine. putin's forces are killing children. we have a report on the ground in poland ahead on "the evening edit." >> i was on 18 different phone calls with putin when president trump was in the white house. he was nothing like he is today. when you become erratic like that, you become isolated, you have to watch what they're going to do.

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elizabeth: the war in ukraine has forced more than 677,000 to flee the bloodshed. some waiting up to 40 hours to enter poland. but the polish prime minister warns that russia may block that border. connell mcshane with us as he has the latest on the ground from poland. connell? reporter: liz, the majority of the refugees who have been leaving ukraine have been coming here to poland. the foreign minister said the number topped 400,000. they say it very well, may eventually go over one million. the second part of that story is we've now seen, according to the border guard more than 80,000 people moving the other way, going from poland back into ukraine. many of them young men of military fighting age who say they're going back to defend their country. we even met at this border crossing however a young family a dad with two daughters who had gotten out before the war but they were online to go back in. they said things didn't work out so well for them once they got out of the country. this is where their life is,

where their jobs are, where their family is. they were going back to live in their nation. so this is a story building for some time. it will continue to build. we expect the refugees to put pressure on these european economies including poland but so far the nations of the european union have been welcoming these people in. liz, back to you. elizabeth: great reporting, great journalism, connell, thank you for that. heritage foundation vice president of foreign policy, he served our country and served it well, he is lieutenant colonel james carafano. colonel, to this growing and real threat, after sanctions on russia, of a crime crime on 2014, china and russia worked together to knock out the u.s. dollar as the world's top currency. what do you make it of china dominating the world economy? >> yeah. china has kind of got a russian problem here. the plan was, this would be a two-day operation. the government would get decapitated, return russians

would move in. now russia has a protracted campaign. we're literally paying for this war because of our stupid energy policies that drove prices through the roof but russia has to use at that it to pay for the war. it is a campaign that looks like syria. they will level the country to occupy it. they will have a occupation of a country with maybe 40 million people in it. the costs to russia are enormous. the ruble is worth nothing. all they have got is china. basically china just inherited a giant basket case. so i think dominating the world economy is not actually going to be in the cards for russia and china anytime soon. elizabeth: yeah, but they have been working on it though. control of the u.s. dollar is key to our wealth. if it is not, our entire economy gets hit hard. our entire dollar based system is based on debt. it could destroy our economy.

to the nth degree that is the worst-case scenario. here is the thing, russia, many of our adversaries around the world to dump the u.s. dollar, not trade in it, it is happening now. the treasury department admitted adversaries not happening to the u.s. dollar. that will erode sanctions. venezuela is trying to float cryptocurrency to evade u.s. sanctions. >> you hit on key thing this is not pressure from russia and china driving this. this is american stupidity, by not having a military to defend its interests and deter enemies, by having energy policies which undermine ourselves and by having economic policies that run uproared debt, record inflation and we continue with regulations all other things to kind to transform this economy into something immobile. we're doing this to ourselves. not russia and china. elizabeth: we hear you. "the financial times," "the economist" magazine reporting on

this bipolar world of a china yuan and a u.s. dollar running the world economies. that's what the china push has been, the dream has been but to do that they have got to make their financial markets transparent. they need to be markedpy vast liquidity and depeg their own currency from the u.s. dollar. there is a lot of problems for the u.s. dollar to this. we hear you loud and clear. former dni ratcliff says there appears to be a push inside of russia to get rid of sign i hadders in the kremlin there. watch this. >> some of his closest friends and confidants, his inner circle he is now starting to treat differently. this is what happens to autocrats and dictators over time. they get isolated. they get more paranoid. they become less trustworthy and more isolated they become the more dangerous they become and you know, in the end what you hope in a country like russia, where they know what the stakes

are, that his military and intelligence folks would get together, if in fact he is you know, acting this erratically and they are concerned and we could see you know, a change. elizabeth: you know russia's inflation is soaring. their interest rates are doubling. their ruble is now worth less than one cent on the dollar. the best way to slow down putin is to end his war finance, right, colonel? >> i agree with that. i think we have to be careful about the scenario, they will just take putin out. putin is an ex-kgb guy, if somebody could stab putin in the back putin already stabbed him in the back. the regimes, what they put up personal protection of their personal wealth and security. look it might happen but i don't think we can bank on that. we all know what makes russia a threat, their military and their energy. if we're energy independent and willing to do it ourselves fueled by a powerful american

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>> media coverage stateside has been abysmal. frankly when it comes to some democratic politicians and some commentators like there is a competition for the worst hot take out there and we're only six to seven days in this conflict, liz. i can only expect this to get worse because what we're seeing is, we're seeing democratic politicians basically putting politics first and gnat understanding the gravity of the moment. elizabeth: watch joy behar of "the view" bemoaning the fact russia ukraine war is hurting her vacation plans. >> estimated 50,000 ukrainians will be dead or wounded. this is going to start a humanitarian crisis a refugee crisis in europe. we're talking about five million people. >> yeah. >> that will be displaced. >> yeah. >> it's heart breaking to hear what is going to happen. >> yeah. >> i'm scared of what is going to happen in western europe too. you know. you plan a trip. you want to go there. want to go to italy for four years. i haven't been able to make it because of pandemic.

and now this. you know. who will, what will happen there? elizabeth: your reaction? >> i wish i was shocked but sadly this is from joy. this is the type of tone deaf elitist hot take we expect. she is more concerned about her european vacation plans than she is about 700,000 refugees right now. i promise you, she will say something just as ridiculous in the weeks to come. elizabeth: ford, let's listen to house speaker pelosi trying to score political pints of the russian invasion, equating it to assaults on democracy here. watch this. >> we talked about the fact that the invasion, the assault on ukraine was an assault on democracy. barbara took the time to talk about assaults on our democracy in our own country. >> your reaction? >> nancy pelosi is going to do what nancy pelosi does and that is put politics first and any opportunity she can to push the democrats voter suppression lie she will do take that opportunity. she thinks ukraine can help her

push that to the american public. sadly again, madam speaker pelosi missed the gravity of the moment. this is much bigger than the points democrats want to score with republicans. >> "new york times" running an op-ed saying the leader of ukraine is seriously in over his head. that is not aging well. we also have activists, creator of the controversial 1619 project nicole hanna jones tweeting out the media coverage of the russia invasion of ukraine i will us are straits racism in the press. what is your reaction to that? >> let's look at "new york times" first. the reason why nato and eu are waking up because of zelenskyy's leadership and tenacity and charisma. when it comes to the 1619 project and hannah jones, critical race theory and politics broken people's brain. we're looking at ukraine because russia is nuclear power, a

murderous thug, that is why we're focused on it. not because of some ridiculous nonsense folks want to push from the academy. elizabeth: putin has done, poisoning enemies overseas and places like uk. what he is don't in chechnya repeated today. on kyiv, car kharkiv and really slamming populations there, ford. we have the kremlin backed russia today network banished drop in america and canada. the affiliate is here in the u.s. should we get rid of rt? >> i'm all for differing viewpoints. i will say they're state-sponsored media. their whole goal is destablize western governments i would like to keep it open as long as possible. at some point it will have to be shut down and recognized for what it is. elizabeth: ford o'connell. great to have you on. potential turning point over president biden and border crisis a potential vote

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general ken paxton. the state of the union address, what can the president say about the border? he's taken about 300 executive actions in his first year, triple what trump did. about 904 to unwind trump's policies on the border. what can the president say about the border tonight in the state of union address? >> 's motto is still back better, i'd like to know how you go back better our immigration seems to be at an all-time low. i'd like transparency about what's going on said how many are being transported and how we. illegal immigration and effects related to drug trafficking and overdoses covid spread and crime and how he will deal with all of it. an open conversation about that. liz: you really think he's going to? >> no, not at all, i think he's going to avoid it but i can main name other subjects that i know he's not going to talk about. liz: washington post reporting a waiver of hispanic majority

democrat, hispanic democrats along the us-mexico border in texas switching to the gop because of rising crime and waves of illegal immigration. your response? >> i'm not surprised. people are smart and abused by the biden administration and betrayed, all kinds of crime, people crossing their property, they are afraid, for jobs and livelihoods are affected and their safety is affected and they are tired of it and they realize this administration is not looking out for them and they are not looking out for america or my state and they are speaking with about. liz: hispanic publican switched, a quiet political upheaval how widespread is this? >> i think it spreading fast rapidly, a bigger deal than most people realize i think. these people voting democrat are

realizing the democratic party is not there to take care of them. republican party offers them opportunities and jobs in a chance to take care of the families and get educated do something that matters in this country. liz: what talk what's happening in the last seven days, for agents in texas according to bill melugin caught 12 gang members, seven were ms 13 gang members and half a dozen with criminal records including convictions for murder, sexual crimes against children. elsewhere along the border, five unaccompanied children abandoned in del rio, thermal imaging product 50 men dressed in camouflage trying to sneak across the big bed sector and fentanyl bust in the tucson sector, enough to kill over 200,000 in the last seven days. >> that sounds terrible in horrific however, none of it is surprising. it's been predicted the biden administration opened the border and basically allows anyone who wants to come across can and

they've expired and incentivized the cartel to make a lot of money transporting as many people as possible but the cartel are not doing a background check and we are not even so people coming across the border could have terrace backgrounds from any background at all and they are invited to come stay in our country. liz: if you count the getaways and illegal immigration, 2 million at the u.s. border last year. more than 2.1 million expected to arrive this year. i'm not sure that includes the getaways, we are cropping talking those crossing every year for the last two years. >> it would not surprise me if that number were not significantly higher, maybe million four, i heard trump say there may be 4 million and not about what surprised me because we are not tracking this. i don't trust it ministrations numbers anyway because they've not been honest about anything. liz: they did push off the

report about ice arrests, are you saying -- what do you see in the numbers that gives you pause? >> the fact that they keep increasing may have not been transparent how they move people around, i don't know why i would trust them to be transparent about anything so the numbers could be larger, how do you keep track of those who are not turning themselves in? there are a number of people, we don't know how many, which is no there are more than we are counting. liz: street price of fentanyl has dropped by half according to the daily caller foundation, are you hearing that, too? >> we are and i'm not surprised again because when you create demand, there will be supply supply is coming from china and china is incentivized to do it other than just money and it's going to continue to be a problem because more people will use it because the prices are low.

liz: it's good to see you again, come back again soon. i'm elizabeth mcdonald, you have been watching the evening edit on foxbusiness, that does it for us, thank you for watching and we hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ ♪♪ kennedy: could be the most important generational speech in the most consequential of president biden's career thus far but with more russia and considerable problems here at home, where the president deliver? here we go, live look at capitol hill right now. in exactly two hours the president will give his very first state of the union address, 5000 miles away in ukraine the situation continues to deteriorate but make no mistake, ukrainians are still fighting back hard but vladi