16, 17000 a day storming the work to come across? it's going to be total chaos. liz: mary mclaughlin junior, come back soon, it's good to have you on. i'm elizabeth macdonald, we want to thank you for watching "the evening edit" on foxbusiness. thanks for watching, we hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ kennedy: it's getting so exciting, twitter is going to work with elon musk. the future of free speech could be hanging in the balance. who comes out on top? billionaire spaceman or wealth weirdos in silicon valley texas ceo last week got 9.2% of twitter. today he offered to buy the entire thing for 43 billion in cash. that's a major premium on the cost a share.

that's a really good deal for investors so why does he want twitter so badly? today british columbia he made this case. >> why make that offer? >> i think it's important that it be an inclusive arena for the speech. twitter has become the fact zero town square so people have the reality and perception they are able to speak freely within the bounds of the law. kennedy: he claims it's not about that. >> this is not a way to sort of make money. i think it's -- my strong sense is that having a public platform

maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization. >> but the -- >> i don't care about the economics at all speak of what happened to his plan doesn't work out? >> in this case you are not successful in the work does not accept your offer, you said you want to go higher, is there a plan b? >> there is. [laughter] kennedy: you think he was just saying that free styling? of course this isn't sitting well with a lot of the twitter audience. one professor compared the move to hitler's takeover of germany. so that's not extreme. a columnist at the washington post said he was frightened by what might happen. hey dumb dumb, you know jeff

bezos owns your newspaper? the strongest reaction from twitter itself, the "wall street journal" reporting, twitter has a poison pill option, essentially they would flood the market with shares to dilute the lawns stake in the company and potentially ruin themselves financially in the process. that seems like a bad move. all to keep elon musk from succeeding in his head takeover so how nasty will this fight get? let's talk about it with tonight man panel. 640 los angeles, gary hoffmann. fox news contributor and host of the richard fowler show, there's richard fowler. hi, richard. iconic host part of the problem podcast, dave smith. so many questions for all the men on the panel. gary, let's start with the financial implications, $43

billion offer for twitter. why would they turn it down? is it just because it's elon musk? >> one 100% because it's elon musk, there's no other reason. twitter, if you watch what they've done for the last six or 18 months, twitter is i think the beginning of a downward spiral and nobody likes to be swirled in the toilet, the idea you mentioned about potential poison pill option they have flooding the market with their shares, they know that this is at least being exposed for what it is. as somebody who works speaking every day for a living, the argument, the continued debate over what is free speech and what constitutes free speech and have free speech make society better, i think it's fantastic and we all need to be involved in those discussions every single day because it is so important to our democracy. the idea you mentioned max

writing for the washington post he's frightened by this by somebody like elon musk putting a premium on freedom of expression and freedom to say things you want to say, it's ridiculous somebody would say, for a paper whose new tagline is democracy dies in darkness but he's frightened someone will turn more lights on what goes on in twitter. [laughter] kennedy: richard, you bought some twitter today, didn't you? >> i did and here's the thing, the stock price went down even though elon musk is offering shareholders little over $50 a share. stock price dropped 11% today or excuse me, a little less but it's an interesting move, i'm here for it. here's the problem, according to reports from different sources, he doesn't have cash on hand so he will have to finance the cash and potentially by twitter and

wait and see what happens so there's a lot of unknowns here before we throw confetti at the idea. let's see if the mechanics are there. kennedy: he's the richest man in the world, i'm sure he can scrape together $43 billion even if it's just from other billionaires hate jeff bezos. i want to go back to that quote. this is a full quote, i'm frightened by the impact on society and politics is elon musk requires twitter. he seems to believe on social media anything goes for democracy to survive, we need more content moderation, not less. is that what we need for democracy to survive? >> it's really something, this whole thing is amazing even if none of this happens, it's amazing the spectacle is creating and i hope it happens but who knows? democracy is so important and

that's why we have to silence people from being able to give their opinions so others can't hear them so it's important everybody has the right to vote but we also don't want them to hear from say like the sitting president of the united states or sitting member of congress, those people we want kicked off the pot from but if i were max booth and advocated for seven wars over the last 20 years that led to millions of innocent people dying and trillions of dollars wasted and nothing but destroyed nations plus tens of thousands of our own soldiers killing themselves, i would want to silence my opposition as well. what is amazing is you on musk forced progressive neoliberal and neoconservative establishment to basically say that yes, they consider the idea of not having control of censorship to be a huge threat to them. he's also exposed more conservative right wing who have been saying that this is where we deviate from the free-market

types like myself, we need government to come in and regulate social media to solve this problem which is a real problem but all proposals for regulation would make it worse and not solve it and we have a potential solution from the marketplace and even if this doesn't work, who's to say a few elon musk and other billionaires buddies and several of them who feel the same way he does, maybe they come back with another offer and maybe this is the great solution to online censorship, we just need really rich people who actually believe in free speech to get involved, incredibly exciting. kennedy: liberation of voices to participate and not just people deemed appropriate by whoever is kind of an power of social media or not but it's not just twitter where conservatives are getting hosed. today republican national committee voted unanimously to withdraw on the presidential

debate. the committee chairwoman mcdaniel is pledging to find debate that forms for future republican nominees but with democrats boycott and could we be looking at a future without presidential debate? do we really need them, gary? >> i think we do. we talk about the extremes in this country whether it super healed progressives, conservatives like dave was talking about, six or 8% on either end of the political spectrum there is a vast middle of this country who still needs to be able to see and hear those people representing us whether in congress, federal office or whatever it is, i think we do need debate but what the republican national committee has to do, i like the idea and stand by the idea they need debate before voting begins, you

don't have people on the debate stage in the form of moderators who have worked for the candidates but you have to come up with an alternative. you can't just say we will find a new debate stage to make sure everything is fair. you'd better come up with the alternative and not just cross your arms and say i'm taking my ball and going home. there's got to be something in the plan. kennedy: there has to be more bold, right richard? [laughter] >> there definitely has to be more balls, i agree with everything you said. i would add here in lies the problem with the argument for looks at the end of the day you might have a debate commission how it is and that's why you work to fix it. the idea of leaving it together is likely at this time if it were happening this year, we likely cannot have a presidential debate and the main contention is the problem with the moderators but the last

presidential debate, everybody could agree with the former president had a problem with that, it's a little more of i don't like the questions how people perceive me as the president and less about the commission. kennedy: it wasn't just the moderators. dave, obviously there are a lot of problems with presidential debates, a lot of people are talking about running for the libertarian party presidential nomination, there are a lot of people liberty minded who would love to see that but how does someone like you get on the debate stage? the commission presidential debate exists to keep them functioning, to make sure there are not viable third party candidates on stage challenge the establishment so should the republican party leave the debate commission so something new can arise from the action?

>> i think that would be great. for the record, not everybody thinks chris wallace is but the truth, what you've had over the last few years, candidates have been drawn into the two big parties because of the rules rates against third-party. bernie sanders was essentially a third-party candidate. donald trump was essentially a third-party candidate, they just ran into democrat or republican party because it's the only way to get on the debate stages and get ballot access easy but from my perspective, i think we are in a new landscape in the idea the presidential debates, they are integrated. i agree i want to hear the candidate speak but i'd rather hear both of them on the drove joe rogan experience for three hours with honest questions from a regular person and give a ten minute answer.

rather than hear someone in the corporate press ask the same boring questions and they live for a minute and talk over each other. to meet, i don't know, if i were to run for something, i don't really care about this. i can go on rogan and these shows and talk to millions of people for hours and hours. this is besides the., the problem used to be we couldn't get our message out unless we got on the corporate press or the presidential debate but for libertarians, those days are over and we need to embrace the new world with more opportunities than ever before. kennedy: left turn opportunities into action and results. if we will have old white guys running against each other than i want to see what they do in the nfl combine, i want to see how they do in the 40-yard strength. i've done this before several times, i want to see both candidates download the pizza hut app in order a pizza and

whoever gets it delivered first gets to be president. i've said it before and will say it again and it makes me hungry every time. it game night, man panel sticking around. we will have more with them winners and losers. democrats might want debate, their policies steak and nothing to brag about right now. polls reflect that according to university poll. president biden approval rating is skyhigh, he's at 70%. [laughter] jk. record low of 33%, 54% disapprove of the president perform its. how can his party bounced back before the midterms? here with me now, real clear politics executive editor, tom bevan. nobody knows better than you about polls and how they are trending. how are things now for the president? >> pretty bad. it's hard to find a silver lining.

i was thinking earlier, i think the only over lining is the election is still six months away. everywhere you look for democrats whether the direction of the country, whether it's individual races and certainly the main problem is it's all about the economy and jobs. the administration is trying to do things to address that but they are not significant enough. biden going to iowa saying we will spend federal rule on ethanol for three months to give relief at the pump, it won't be enough to solve the problems they are facing with an electorate struggling day in and day out with gas prices and food prices and the rest. alas until something changes i think we will see this same path and it's a path that will lead to a bloodbath in november. kennedy: we seen is numbers dropped eight-point just in the last few weeks.

is it the response to the war in ukraine driving that? is it inflation keeps going in the wrong direction? are we starting to see more movement on the southern border? is there one driver? >> it inflation and the economy and while the administration likes to tout the good news on the economy, low unemployment rates and etc. those are not the numbers we are focused on. we got to horrendous inflation numbers on the consumer and wholesale side. the highest on record in 40 years and people are feeling that in their everyday lives. whatever biden does even supreme court appointment, that gave him a bit of a bump but on the day he gave the state of the union was 40.6% and average, today he's at 40.4 so whatever bump he got his phone and he's back to where he started would translate a loss of 30, 40, 50 seats in the house, 32546 senate seat and who knows how many governors and

state legislative seats around the country. it would be a very bad night for the democrats if he can't get his job approval rating around 50. kennedy: and everyone knows, he's already kind of a late start, there's no way he runs again in 2024 and anyone who says he's going to, they are lying to himself and anyone else on television or in public. you look at this whole thing, there's no way you can boost is party before the midterms and i don't know what you do if all you do is blame and shift and gaslight. your propaganda will run very thin so if you look at the numbers alone from covid data on states that open, republican states and state with the most brutal lockdowns, that has to be

bad news for democrats. >> it is although covid is disappearing as an issue, the other concern obviously crime is there but immigration, that's back in the headlines not in a good way. killing title 42, which even vulnerable democrats new hampshire, down at the border filming of video saying we got to do something, kyrsten sinema and others, she's not up for reelection but the other democrats are, rafael warnock, he's about as progressive as you get. this is going to be bad news for the democrats so they are not doing what they need to where they have control and that's ultimately the problem, the american people know the policies of the biden administration let us to this place where they face these obstacles and pressures and anxiety and when you control all three, two houses of congress and the white house, the voters have nobody else to make pay for

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this week new york subway attack shining a light on crime waves. america's most populated city and maybe your city, too. shooting incidents were up here 14% in the first quarter of 2022. overall crime is up 44%, former new york city police commissioner said the responsibility falls on the city's new mayor. >> we really have to do something about taking back the city. we did innwe ihen ihe 9nd a 's a00 coan i agat b yo h aasms g toooo getet a a enlist l tstde lststoisoiceoioi.

kes ge's the by tllhey the t h h h hso whaty gdodooooer t picinolol p ha m m itt, mnn m,eyel,omehe t shsht'sshnt becng ce thept n the yorg o i idi iy drousdi peop op reop pusnd of traind pndpleingei abbeab aab a robbed and you have the reality that although there is a bit of a crime spike, homicides are actually down this year. are we as safe as we were in the 90s or does it just feel that way because of reporting? >> we are not as unsafe as the 90s, 1991, 2290 people were murdered in new york. we got as low as -- right. it was startling is you hear people saying it's not as bad as the 90s, why is everyone worried about crime?

for something ray kelly did as police commissioner when we got the number down to 600 murderers and people said it's a big city, he said we can get it down to 500 or 40300. i think we need to get that mindset back and say we will use all law enforcement tools and judicial tools and mental health tools to identify people who are dangerous and deter them from crime and incapacitate them through mental health treatment, inpatient beds, rehabilitation for drug addiction. whatever it is but we need the opportunity by taking away the prosecution of low-level offenses. we take away the opportunity from the person robbing a pharmacy over and over again, shampoo bottles and feed their addiction. we used to have the opportunity to say if you want to avoid prosecution, here's a rehabilitation program.

without the opportunity for prosecution, we are getting rid of these tools and seeing dangerous people and people a danger to themselves and others because of mental illness on the streets and there are other reasons as well. kennedy: it's not just new york city that's spent so much money on mental health initiatives. the nyc program had virtually no results to show. it's not just a matter of throwing money at the problem. l.a., seattle, they can show you the same thing, and massive homeless problem even though they spent a lot of money on it because they are not spending money in the right way. >> is true in any degree of mental illness is of concern but we need to deal with the small population within the small population of people with mental illness who are dangerous and need supervision in order to not be at risk themselves. [sirens] kennedy: i have to ask you a serious question. are you at sales right now it is

it your birthday? >> no. [laughter] kennedy: i just didn't know if that was a big birthday celebration they were bring in. >> i wish, i live near a police precinct. kennedy: of course you do. you love criminal justice reform so much you live right by the cops so you can hide by them every single day. how do we reverse the trend right now? the trends going in the wrong direction? >> sure, i think part of it and i heard commissioner say, first of all we have to give mayor adams the chance, one of the big differences is to allow police to be more proactive. if we look at the subways will say but there are a lot of police and we still have crime but it's only recently the police are given the mandate to step in. for the last two years and some degree eight years, if somebody smoked a joint in your subway car, police neither from

policymakers nor new yorkers have the mandate to step in and do something, it's live and let live need to i don't love the smell of weed but that's the least of my concern on the subway. someone smoking the bone on the one train, that doesn't concern me, it's the people who are peeing and pooping on the train. it's the fluids i have a hard time with and maybe it goes back to the mental health crisis but we do have to reimagine things in a way that are practical with good results the people feel safe so they can thrive and spend money start businesses and raise their kids and not cower with pepper spray. thank you so much, i hope you come back so we can talk about this because you have great crime and i don't mean your committing crime, i don't believe you are. >> i wouldn't tell you if i

were. [laughter] kennedy: thanks. coming up, it game night. praise your luck. politically minded panel knows about past presidents, see if you can beat them. that's next. ♪♪

kennedy: you know what that music means, somewhere kat timpf is drinking because she's not part of this panel but still playing along wherever she is and you can, too. time to play press your luck. the american idiots from the smarty-pants. party panel will earn points by answering trivia, each will have one chance and one chance only get they will double their points on a question of their choosing later in the game but if they get all wrong, they lose

it all. winner gets a bag full of teddy roosevelt mustache hair. that's real. are you ready to play? >> i'm horrible at these games. kennedy: let's see how bad you are tonight. question number one. which of these presidents hosted high school prom at the white house? wasn't barack obama, gerald ford, ronald reagan or thomas jefferson? high school prom. [laughter] >> high school prom. i would say barack obama. kennedy: you would be wrong. no, it was gerald ford. susan and gerald, they hosted the dance of the white house in 1975, first and only prom to be held there but the spring is young. our president might want to skip

particles with highschooler in the d.c. area. stay tuned, people. richard, this is for you. [laughter] kennedy: which of these presidents had a dog named satan? thomas jefferson, john adams andrew jackson or jimmy carter? >> this is a tough one. i'm going to go with jimmy carter. kennedy: [laughter] the man who had sin in his heart? no, john adams. adams family may have had mixed breeds dogs including satan and a horse named cleopatra. they are going in the weeds with these questions, not my fault. i don't put them together. a dog named satan. dave smith, this is for you. which of these hollywood actresses did ronald reagan write about in his diary? vivian lee, patty mcdaniel, drew barrymore or whoopi goldberg? >> i'm sorry, what were the 21st ones? kennedy: vivian lee who played

o'hara and patty mcdaniel who was also in the film. >> i'll go mcdaniel. kennedy: no. an excerpt from ronald reagan's diary from october 1984 reads, little drew barrymore, the child of 18 was one of the children i met, she's a nice little person. well. drew. [laughter] these questions are too hard. here we go, gary. which of these presidents only gave two speeches his entire presidency? grover cleveland, thomas jefferson, warren harding or donald trump? [laughter] >> two speeches? grover cleveland. kennedy: no. cleveland was a chatty box. no, it was thomas jefferson, he liked to handwrite everything. he thought speaking was beneath him. i know, this gate is my -- it's not my fault.

>> it wasn't donald trump, that's all he did was speeches. [laughter] kennedy: suck my -- sorry. richard, aside from large washington, the only president who ran unopposed for reelection to his second term. was it millard fillmore, franklin pierce, james monroe or the king elvis presley? >> i will go with monroe. kennedy: really? someone actually got a question right. richard, you are a genius, good job at the height of the era of good feelings. republican president james monroe one without a major opponent and wouldn't joe biden like to go back in time and run against him? dave, which of these presidents as a child was sent to work as an adventured servant to a taylor by his mother? andrew johnson, james buchanan,

bricklin pierce or joseph r biden? [laughter] >> will biden is old enough but i don't think that was his story. andrew jackson. kennedy: no, it was johnson -- i'm going to give it to him. andrew johnson, you got that. you get it, yes. your type is richard. you have to answer quickly. gary, which of these presidents said relics including a pair of blinken pants and john quincy pants to decorate the white house? bill clinton, chester arthur, william howard taft or nancy pelosi? >> taft. [laughter] kennedy: no, chester. what was president clinton's cap name? main, buttons, grover or socks? you are right. you are in the lead. dave, you can tie for the mustache hairs with richard if you get this. which of these presidents had a

sport named after him? herbert hoover, chauvin coolidge, haze or linden baseball johnson? [laughter] >> what's? kennedy: i don't think -- but that was fun. >> i don't want the mustache hair from the man who ushered in the progressive era and destroyed the country. i'll just go with coolidge because he did nothing with. kennedy: i love that guy. but that is wrong. herbert hoover, a medicine ball game invented by president herbert hoover. he can't fit. richard, you win. i'm giving you the mustache hair. thanks, gentlemen. good job you get mustache hair, too. >> you can send him the mustache hair. kennedy: you get to win. dibs all around. nuclear threats are growing

louder. are we prepared to respond? how can you prepare yourself and your home for the apocalypse? extreme survivalist, schneider is here to help you survive. he's next. ♪♪

vladimir putin such a jerk, threatening to use nukes for weeks and now cia warning he may not be loving according to william burns, the bird. none of us can take lightly threat posed by potential resort tactical nuclear weapons or low yield nuclear weapons on top of that, putin warned sweeting christmas against joining nato saying he would put nukes in their neighborhood as a deterrent. if this gets worse and friends

the u.s., how can we protect ourselves from a nuclear strike? joining me now, extreme survivalist and retired u.s. army combat veteran, ej snyder, welcome to this television show. >> thanks for having me back and having me on, i appreciate it. you're right on the money with some of those statements. kennedy: all right, what strikes you most about this? cia director saying putin pretty much would use nukes. if that does happen in the united states, what should people do? why don't we talk about on pendant kennedy saves the world where you did a masterful job giving great advice. >> i appreciate it. we have to look at this even though he may be loving which i believe he is, the only way to fight his stand shoulder to shoulder and say not today but what if he has more screws fall out of his melon and does push

the button whether it's intercontinental or tactical? is going to cause a lot of problems. even though he may be bluffing, we have to treat it as if he's not and the cia director has intel he may be close to doing that then people need to prepare. what you prepare? a new is a very bad thing, if you're in the zero blast zone and outer rings of it, it's going to happen very quickly in a big problem whatever country has to deal with it because you're talking medical, logistics, they have to clean it up and the blow over to other nations possibly from the nuclear cloud but if you and your loved ones are prepared, the best thing is if you have a basement or get low, get beneath the blast radius and you see a flash of light, lay low. if you can't get behind, it's going to be moving so fast, with just seconds to react and lower

under the ground you can be, the safer you will be because the blast will move so fast, it will go over top of you and there will be a debris ways and all that but the blast will push it out so far and once it passes the band of circles, everybody outside the circle have to do with the debris coming out. kennedy: and you said get to a parking garage, places that are underground you could get inside of and as low as possible as quick as you can and that is stuck in my brain. also have a bandanna or masks, something to double up and put over your face. >> you want to keep your airway clean. the surgical masks, the bandanna over that, get into a stairwell under the ground, subway station, and escalator or get to a staircase that goes into the city. in new york you have stairwells

under restaurants, you want to get low behind concrete to protect you as low as you can get. kennedy: if you want to hear more incredible tips, kennedy saves the world, listen to our podcasts because he's so full of information, he's been on naked and of fried and has triumphed times. so good to talk to you. [laughter] >> thanks a lot, appreciate you having me on. kennedy: i'll talk to you soon. topical storm is next. ♪♪

a new study finds one in six players compete while sitting on the toilet. also known as of bowel movement. as the ultimate "game of thrones". this is topical storm, topic number one. launching a new product to help users hook up with each other at music festivals. also known as ecstasy. it's called festival mode, you options alarming signals to match people attending the festivals there we go, well. just make sure to use protection or you could end up burning man.

it will ask users to enter stagecoach. then seek matches, you're guaranteed to be unemployed stoner of your dream. surveys showed three and five single hook up with someone at a music festival and that someone was john mayer. [laughter] this is one of several new features, this year including the option to run a background check on your matches. that feature is unnecessary because everyone's background on twitter or tender elon musk is going to buy tender, too. swag your mama. a widely, hotel back winnie. topic number two. the world's oldest guerrilla celebrating his birthday. congratulations from all of us at fox, danny devito. [laughter] actually her name is -- she's 55 years old.

how does she tie her shoes? it just goes to show you are never too old to spend your birthday at the zoo. she celebrating the occasion with the most beautiful heidi kuhn. to that other animals didn't show up to her party. last year she tried to pin the tail on the donkey not to mention the bird brains she -- in which he played duck duck goose. she got a little upset and a happy birthday song when the others started singing you look like a monkey and smell like one, too. she said i am and eight. don't feel bad for her, it's just the beginning, she'll be totally hammered at the monkey bar later. topic number three. now an update on president biden's bishop attack dog and i'm not talking about jen psaki. new documents show major biden the german shepherd who once lived at the white house said

this, various agents on eight consecutive days making him by far the most consistent member of the biden administration. commit show complaints behind the scenes including the white house downplaying the injuries and blaming them on the secret service. the white house says it's ready to admit the truth that no dog bites were vladimir putin's fault, it's the putin spike. severe dog bites on it but talks. several agents, it turns out the president dog grab more but then his son. good news is the white house corrected their mistake and decided not to keep german shepherds as pets anymore from now on. they are going with german guerrillas. i love it. topic number four. mixed messages, usually mixed with cheap vodka, this is your mail. disgusting, utterly disgusting happened, did you lift up your shirt and catch a glimpse of your man boobies?

seems to be your specialty. yes, with the a-uppercase-letter for a whole. your condescending tone makes my ears bleed. oh, condescending. that's is it a word for buffoon. don't mind if i do. we'll be right back. here i am going up. you know what i mean. yeah, yeah. ♪♪

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