the way it was. thousand game changer for the trump administration and this administration next a joke out of it. elizabeth: thanks for coming on, good to see you. got fired up there, great insight. i'm elizabeth macdonald, you have been watching "the evening edit" on foxbusiness, that does it for us, we hope you have a good evening, thank you for watching and join us again tomorrow night. ♪♪ kennedy: vladimir putin claiming ukraine war is our fault and johnny depp gave a testimony in hollywood legal history. first up, masks are coming off if you've been on a plane. the confusion and liberal backlash is just beginning. federal judge yesterday struck down transportation mask mandate, same people cheer because we been wearing the stupid things on our faces for two years and it sucks and most of them don't even work. that's not me, that's my friend

science. some even learned about the ruling. [inaudible] >> you may remember. [inaudible] [applause] >> delta's position is masks will be optional this evening for all crew and passengers as well. kennedy: yesterday and yesterday only it was optional, a lot of people didn't hear about that it was a big deal. the problem is, mask rules are still in place and some airports like here in new york and chicago which obviously makes the court ruling a head scratcher. >> i'm confusing and frustrating. life is confusing. >> no exception.

>> no exception. >> there needs to be a definite decision to eliminate that confusion. kennedy: we can't do that. meanwhile, liberals can't stop complaining. some people on twitter even went so far to accused the airline of wait for it, murdering children for letting people take off their masks. that's obviously insane but the president today seems to be okay with the ruling. watch. >> people continue to wear masks on planes? >> that's up to them. >> are they shutting down the mandate? >> i haven't spoken to the cdc yet. kennedy: was that pete buttigieg standing next to him? white house press secretary jen psaki said public health issues shouldn't be made by the court. nobody at the white house is on the same page, what a surprise. what would happen if the feds tried to reinstate mandate after

giving us a taste of freedom. tonight party panel, former trump advisory board member, jason meister is here along with former tennessee congressman, fox news contributor, cohost, harold ford junior and foundation for economic education and liberty activist, lovely olivia rondeau. welcome, everyone. i can't help but be confused and entertained by some of the reaction here. i assume most people would be relieved given that personal responsibility back and choices in their own lives how and when they protect themselves from the virus so why are we seeing so much pushback like from maggie who wrote i can't stop thinking about people who may have chosen to book and board a flight break based on personal risk assessment that involves everyone being masked in

midflight it was physically impossible to leave. that element of their risk assessment was upended. so it's all about risk assessment and constantly being safe. why would people like that ever leave their home? >> it is about risk assessment and the truth is, you did see the videos that went viral yesterday on social media showing 95% of the people on the airplanes very happy to take the mask off and see their fellow people flying with them and their copilot and pilot and stewardess, they like to see them smile. that's what the majority of americans believe. i think the science has been settled on this, masks have demonstrably no impact on curbing the spread of the virus. if you look at areas of the country that enforce mask mandate and compare those areas the areas of the country that did not impose mask mandate, he will see masks were really

useless. kennedy: they were not the driving factor. >> that's right and most instances they were disruptive as a mitigation tool so masks are gone, they are not going to come back, we can't allow them to come back because they were effectively fear. kennedy: harold, what will the white house do? you have jen psaki and i thought this was an interesting quote from her, she said public health decisions shouldn't be made by the court, they should be made by public health experts. i don't remember the teachers union saying public health experts but they were there crafting mask and health policy with the cdc. we've now learned this is one of those bells you can't unring. once you tell people they are free, they are not going back to being tied down with masks on planes. what you think should happen? >> thank you for having me on. i think the vaccines and

prevalence and ubiquitous this of people taking the first shot and second shot, i had my second booster just last week, i think it's a big part of why we are where we are. i won't get into trying to debate freedom and science, i believe in freedom and science, we probably all do but i think what we are most excited about is we are able to not wear a mask in public, i have an 8-year-old and soon to be 7-year-old and they are excited about not wearing masks in school and what the administration would do, i hope they don't appeal it. the cdc decides this is something that should be pursued and they will follow the signs but i hope they allow that decision which i think they have always allowed the cdc to make the decision and i would imagine the white house would be better suited to focus their political intellectual pursuits on inflation, intellectual effort inflation and border and crime

and if indeed, i hope and pray we don't have a resurgence of covid in any sense. this is not something of any party, i know we all hope we don't, we don't want to revisit this but we are able to get on other issues which i think every american does and is a proud american in reverse order hope that's what we do as well. kennedy: i hope, too, i hope we reconnect with our freedom and i don't know how that happened because the heavy hand of government weighing down the scales against freedom not only with some covid policies but immigration. inflation, there are so many areas where the government has been overly involved and we've seen problems follow when will people start voting like they are sick of the heavy

handedness? >> we have to change the culture surrounding how we view the government. my philosophy i follow is we can certainly put our right away but we have to fight to get them back once we give the government too much power, would be hard to get the power back from them. instead of trusting the government and the cdc, instead of trusting bounty finally, take everything with a round of salt. i think we have to drive home the.that work for us, supposed to be responsible to us, not for us and at the end of the day we are responsible for ourselves and our own health. kennedy: that's a great and powerful and important distinction and i think a lot of people lose sight of that. they are not responsible for us, they are responsible to us. wise words, thank you for sharing that. sleepy joe apparently dreaming of a second term.

yay. this is the best, everything is so great now. imagine how much better it's going to be when an 86-year-old is leaving office. president biden told former president obama he's going to run in 2024 with the easter bunny, of course. week. washington post released its own list of america's next top democrats. they favor biden to run again but rank pete buttigieg as their second choice for the top of the 2024 to get. bypassing kamala harris and told she was so angry she laughed for hours. are these established variance capable of winning after spending the last year making everything worse? i can't imagine president biden is going to run again. democrats certainly don't want them to, the rest of the country, they scour on the biden presidency. maybe he can make a miraculous

swing back into the mid 60s in terms of approval numbers but i don't see that happening and i think he owes it to himself and the family and the country to call it a one and done. >> i have to agree with you but i do think this is great news for the republican party. joe biden at this moment in his presidency has the lowest approval rating of any president in recorded history and obviously that doesn't come as much of a surprise to probably anyone in this country given that inflation is at a four-year hi, a humanitarian crisis of biblical abortions at our southern border. all across this country. there's a supply chains and we are now threatened with a world war three. that's not to mention the fact that sitting u.s. president is currently being roped into his sons grand jury probe, allegedly he had taken millions upon millions and graphs from all around the world so again i

think if he ran again, it would be great for the republican party. kennedy: harold, often times when people talk about the democrat party, a lot of people i talked to even if they are republican, they don't want to vote for donald trump, even, sorry jason, even if they really like his policy, they found his personality so distracting and divisive that a lot of people in the country don't want to go through that again. there are others in the republican party who are viable contenders, i don't think the army that many democrats. i do think you are one of them, what is holding you back from running in 2024? you are saying, kind, hard-working you've made a name for yourself what you got to the private sector and have been successful, you know what it means to work hard and earn your own money it and you are not

risking. >> i feel like the guy on the liberty mutual commercial, you are very nice. kennedy: i am a mean old lady. >> joe biden will be formidable if he's able to turn some things around. if not, the premise of your question is right. if democrats don't get right on crime or the border and don't address inflation like you are not at harvard but harrisburg or hartford, we will have a hard time at the polls in november and two years from now but remember, reagan, clinton, obama and before that, george w. bush were in the high 30s in the presidency. he's got to figure out a way to turn around if he does not, i party doesn't deserve to win in november and don't deserve to be reelected. kennedy: i don't think he has the energy to turn it around, i think in order to take all the

tools and gifts you have, you have to be a transformational politician and he is not. i was surprised he won because in order to unseat a one term president, you have to be bill clinton, you have to beat barack obama, you have to beat george w. bush, george w bush didn't have time to rebound from his numbers so he left after second term and went to a shed and started painting beautiful portraits. that's what people should do. they should reflect. [inaudible] kennedy: because of bill clinton's transformational ability and he was young and crazy and a political animal. the 90s were awesome. joe biden, i want to talk with you more on this so maybe we will do a podcast because you and i talk about this, there are

areas where you and i are not far apart and i think you could make that interesting. olivia, if people are so mad at republicans and democrats and don't want to be terrorists by white men, why aren't libertarians offering political solutions? >> i think the libertarian does have some issues and a lot of issues but overall the best choice between all three parties, there's a two-party duopoly, people would disagree but what's really holding them back is no fault of their own, i think if they are given a fair chance on the debate stage in terms of getting on the ballot and we would see real change and people would start to take notice of the third party option but until then, we will stick with the duopoly and it's unfortunate. kennedy: it is unfortunate because they are getting nowhere right now. i know you guys are fans of your party but i'm glad you're here.

the panel will stick around, we have so much to discuss with them and their affiliates. coming up, russia ramping up attacks on eastern ukraine using truly awful world war i era weapons to do it. how can they be stopped if they don't care about human life? bryan suits, next. ♪♪

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the russians further unleashing hell on ukraine, launched an all-out work on donbas region to fully liberate the people there liberating are souls from our bodies. officials accusing evil and weapons from bombs to exploding shells that spray rusty nails on civilians. moments ago white house agreed 800 million suffice to the front line in addition to the 800 million we sent a few days ago but now the total 3.4 billion russia claims the whole war is our fault because we are army cranes. how big is the escalation and

how nasty are russia's weapons? your to discuss, radio host and dark secret place.com, get your entry there. bryan suits his back. we are not making anything better, what's going on? >> i think we are because ukraine wants to provide men on the ground to stop putin's crusade against jewish democratically elected president then it's better than the in poland and the rest and we've discovered paper tiger we've been a rating for years and years, it can't get better in 55 days because they began phase two today, the great offense to make this backwards see into a backwards d. so far, i am assessing the end

of day one, they failed to gain operational momentum or anything so they resort just like 1943, just like 1980 and afghanistan, just like yesterday in syria, they resort to atrocities and/or as part of their support command and as a former nco calvary scout and artillery, i can tell you if i requested any thing they use, i would have been arrested. i would have been fired and detained for simply asking for a cluster bomb on a civilian target. it crazy but this is their plan because there army sucks that badly. kennedy: if there army sucks that badly and finding other unconventional ways to kill ukrainians and the united states further army the ukraine army, doesn't this mean it's going to go on for years and years?

that kind of seems like a worst case scenario. >> it probably is, i don't see this becoming a stalemate, i think it's coming one way or another, it might wind up with ukraine taking back the breakaway areas because the russian army is on an arc on day 56 that they can't sustain. this army the field, men and machines, they have an expiration date. the generals to this level know this, the guys above them will not tell putin, putin has never served a day in the army, he fetishize his his navy and that's why the cruise are moscow have an impact, he dislikes the army intensely, he doesn't care. there men could be put in a meatgrinder and he's not being told we need to result here and about two weeks and they're probably not going to because the army is so highly

demoralized and no ability to pull out 200 miles and already ukrainians are counterattacking so i think it's, it might be over in about eight days. kennedy: we will hold you to that because that would put it past two months. we are running out of time to i know you're good at quick answers, what does germany want to see happen? why are they more proactive? >> they like food to go in there had holes and their children to be warm and unwilling to admit their dealer is giving them bad natural gas. natural gas with fentanyl in an they've been doing it not for ten or 20 years but 50 years. reagan had a problem with this and germans are not shortsighted. kennedy: i'm assuming you are not talking about your daughter but i'm assuming you're talking about this as well. >> nine. kennedy: putin isn't the only

one who fetishize the navy. i can't wait. bryan suits, thank you for your perspective. i love it. coming up, johnny depp taking a stand in his $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife amber heard and holy underwear. things get weird. we'll explain it. is it worth it? stay tuned before writing a tuition check. take that to the bank. ♪♪

if you got johnny depp performance with billy walker was strange, you should see him in court. megastar after testifying his $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife amber heard.

he occasionally appeared soft-spoken as he addressed her allegations of abuse against him. man, he's an actor so he did wrong on our drama. >> did i myself reach the place of striking misheard in any way nor have i ever struck any woman in my life. her accusations sort of permeated the industry and made its way through media and social media and became quite a global um, um let's say quote on quote, fact. kennedy: fact. facts. other facts here? i'm still waiting for them he appeared to go off the rail at the time, here he is defending nasty text messages about his

ex-wife including one calling her quote vindictive c word. oh god. >> has to be dealt with with humor and sometimes dark, very dark humor. i grew up watching monty python. kennedy: the old monty python defense. how is johnny holding up in court? here to discuss, adjunct law professor, at cornell law will, randy zelin is back, great to have you. >> so great to be here, thank you. would it have been easier for him to say nothing that amber heard said is true? it's all false, it destroyed my reputation and destroyed my life. that took me about five seconds.

kennedy: it seems like it was more effective than what he did today, it felt like he was morphing into his idol brando and i don't mean that favorably. he has petitioned this case in virginia which could be a little bit more amenable to proving someone has defamed another. >> fantastic points. virginia is known as a reputation, friendly and i'll call them commonwealth, not a state. in fact, there is defamation statue, a defamation statue on the books. there is a statute so it's not simply case law. there is a law on defamation in virginia and ms. herds lawyers have argued mr. depp went jury, not jury, went shopping to end up in a reputation friendly

place like virginia, the argument being the washington servers, the washington post servers where the newspaper that these defamatory statements were published allegedly, the alleged statements, the washington post their service operates out of virginia, that's why we are in virginia courts. kennedy: what does she have on her side? she's counter suing for $100 million. if a ten person jury doesn't rule in his favor, does she automatically get $100 million? what does she have to prove and what's in her favor? >> she's got to prove the same thing. the elements of defamation, she's got to prove there was a statement, the statement was published, the statement concerns her and the statement was actionable meaning it was defamatory and injured her reputation. it was false and capable of being proven true or false and made with what we call actual

malice. in other words, mr. depp knew what he was saying was false or completely closes his eyes which he's basically saying he caused her to be blackballed from hollywood, he said his lawyers, he sent out his people to make sure she'd never work in the town again. kennedy: will the jury have to award money to someone or could they tell both of them to eat glass. >> i don't think it would be nice to say eat glass and pound sand but that doesn't surprising, but what is surprise me if the jury came back with doughnut holes for both of them i think that is a real possibility the jury could be turned off to the back that once again we see wealth and power being able to have access to the system and access to justice and frankly, money spent on legal

fees in my humble opinion would have been far better served on therapist. [laughter] kennedy: her therapist and her nurse testified so far and it sounds like they are all crazy. good to talk to you. >> thank you for having me. kennedy: today's bazaar testimony, a reminder to skip hollywood and stay in school but the problem is, college probably isn't it either. according to a survey by intelligent.com, 25% of college graduates over 25 make less than 30,000 dollars a year. one in seven make less than 15k a year, that's only slightly above poverty line. half of those who graduate are even working in their field of study so a lot of students and parents are wondering, is the six-figure debt worth it? party panel is back, jason, harold and olivia. jason, i have a 16-year-old high

school junior, what should i tell her? >> i think the issue really is this american model college is for all. i don't think college is for everyone. i certainly don't think we should jam college down their throats and load them up in student loans. there is a reason why enrollment is rising faster than completion. i think what we should really look at is offering alternatives based on students aptitude and interest and not just damning them through, down their throats and loading them student debt. there's an issue that should be looked at. kennedy: what should we be looking at? a lot of these diversities of growing the administration, not necessarily growing professors or pas, it's not like students have more access to academic information, they are not necessarily learning more but it's costing a lot more.

what you tell kids? a lot of boys are going to college, there enrollment numbers are dropping. >> i think you and jason are largely right, college has become more of a for-profit business even for nonprofit schools than is helping people gain a profit. you look at the fact that in reality we have a shortage of pilots and nurses and engineers and plumbers and electricians in the country. the focus ought to be demonstrating and revealing to young people opportunities there and if they pursue those opportunities via job or ownership opportunity, we got to reorient and reset the way we think about higher education and opportunity at the higher education in our country. kennedy: olivia, you are an incredible role model, you are a self-made person, team usa wrestler, you've worked hard,

you've succeeded not only in academics but also in athletics which is every parents dream, what would your advice for young women, my daughter's age be? >> first of all, thank you so much, i appreciate the accolades. second, people may not know i'm not a college graduate. i dropped out, i am 21 and yet i still work in the field i went to college for and had my mind set on since i was in high school so to give your daughter advice or any highschooler advice, i'd say wait until you are sure what you want to do. when i was in college, over half of my classmates and peers had undecided majors and career paths but paying tens of thousands of dollars to go to the school just taking general education courses in the basic english and math and science that they would use later in

life. another thing, i will let the libertarian in me jump out, the fed have to get out of higher education. i don't know what leads people to believe that because the feds decided to subsidize and fund appoint tuition costs, it widens the cost so when they are paying out enormous sums of money to these institutions, i don't understand why people don't realize it's just going to keep driving the costs up in quality of education down because they are not beholden to anybody but themselves. kennedy: and if you don't have something you want to study that you really love, don't waste your time. i agree with you, i went to college for about three weeks, dropped out and i didn't go back until i was 28 and decided i wanted to study something for me not because it would get me a job or it would professionally benefit need but because i wanted to feed my brain. it taught me how to think and

that has been invaluable. i don't think i'd have this job if i didn't have that degree but it certainly wasn't a direct path and not one i could have taken after high school because i would have been wasting everyone's time and money so great advice from all of you. jason, harold and olivia, well done. ♪♪ coming up, international monetary content, global economy is about to take. who's to blame? russia? china? china. president biden, scott martin is here next to break it down. ♪♪ 's

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bruce springsteen oatmeal in his mouth. the only person to get was mr. tomi pinko, springsteen was silent minorities. hats off to you, friend. inflation wreaking havoc around the world but who's to blame? fingers of fine, little one, 21, all of them. republicans blaming the white house, the white house blaming the russian attack on ukraine. covid lockdowns, whose fault is it? more important, how do we fix it and not stumble into recession? here to discuss, investment officer of kingsville wealth management and fox news contributor, scott martin. hello. >> the body karate. may not be so popular but everybody is to blame because the federal reserve pumping money into the system a couple of years ago and government spending tons of money to support the american worker and keeping that going until recent

months when biden tried to pour even more gasoline on the fire burning that was inflation because he doesn't get it and that's why inflation started in the first place and economic counsel brian and company the loss when it comes to economic forces behind inflation so a lot of folks are to blame but now what happened is the biden administration claiming putin's price hikes, jen psaki lost i think access to some of her hair coloring mechanisms because it doesn't look as good, the price of that has gone up so there's a lot of folks affected here and it's not getting any better. kennedy: and i agree with you that it's in all of the above answer. yes, it is russia and that will affect the price of gas and oil, ukraine because they produce so much weeks, it china because i shut everything down, zero covid policy even though it is a much less deadly strain of the omicron variance and you've got

the fed pumping trillions and trillions into the economy with the fed chair lying to us about transitory inflation, is all of those things created a disastrous picture. does that picture and in recession and does it have to? >> it ends in a slowdown because your points are well taken and the fact that the fed really did believe at one time it would be transitory, it just didn't work out that way, it hasn't worked out that way so i understand how jerome powell feels when he has the american people, if that even makes sense but you shut down the economy, people don't go to work, demand is pushed forward, demand shut down, he didn't have demand going on for like six months in 2020, early 2021 and you turn everything on again and you are surprised prices go through the roof when we are not making stuff anymore? come on.

kennedy: yes and that was the natural conclusion what happened when people were paid to stay home and that was understandable but as you pointed out, the market and stock market recovered from that. they took off and people went back to work. now we are free of our masks but living in fear of world war iii and global recession. can't wait. thank you for your insight and purple jacket. >> i'm excited. kennedy: you should be. topical storm is next. stay with me. ♪♪

a new report claims babies born during the covid pandemic are talking less. luckily you can still hear what babies are saying on the twitter handle, lives of tik tok. that's our modern day mad lives and this is topical storm. topic number one. absolute vodka throwing a virtual party taking place only in cyberspace. also known as the fire festival. no, it's happening in the metaphors, guys to celebrate the company's real-life sponsorship of coachella. it allows users to masquerade excited characters meet friends they will never speak to in real life but enough about coachella. let's talk about metaphors

party. the party starts at the bar where users can mix virtual cocktails with imaginary ingredients so the only thing wasted will be your time although they still contain more alcohol than coors light and there's metaphors dance floor. you can dance like everybody's watching and of the space where your avatar image can take a picture of itself and then you will be e-mailed a picture of your picture posing for that picture. no wonder they call this place meta. the virtual party the safe alternative to attending the real coachella where several influencers passed out over the weekend after getting stranded in california desert with no water which is what makes coachella the ultimate thirst drop. topic number two. now to florida where a semi truck carrying 1000 pounds of koco was destroyed by a fire making this chocolate story both bitter and semi sweet. these are the remains of a semi truck that brought traffic to a

standstill. on the bright side of the family found a way to stop new yorkers from moving to florida, not really. the fire happened after the brakes failed, that makes sense. when it comes to chocolate, a lot of people have a hard time stopping themselves. i know when i fill up on chocolate, i always end up crashing. police have not said what kind of candy bar the candidate was meant for but it ended up in a crunch. that's because the driver was a bit of a butterfinger. we should really hold our stickers. probably lost 100 grand payday to those mountain and all because the truck wouldn't give a break. give them a break, break them off a piece of that lawsuit. topic number three. researchers in japan developed electric chopsticks making the food taste better so instead of msg, you get ac/dc. no.

chopsticks using electric current to stimulate sodium [inaudible conversations] and food to make them come off stronger than they really are just like the media does with this piece of toast. delicious. so promotable. the goal is to help people reduce actual sodium intake without sacrificing flavor so can work better on some foods than others but you know what they say about asian food, you didn't some, you lose some. experimenting with case simulation for years in december, he invented a likable television. it is simulated the taste on screen. can you taste my hot freedom? if you got your food was salty, wait until you get a taste of dan bongino. topic number four. turkish restaurant owner tried to celebrate the 61st anniversary of human spaceflight by sending a kebab into space. he filmed all for our turkish

delight. watch. [cheering] kennedy: that's a kebab garnished with peppers and onions cracks with giant helium balloons. gassing up for you. the food, the balloon rather reached an altitude of 23 miles high before it exploded and crashed into the ocean so the kebab didn't quite make the space but definitely the highest a chick has ever flown. sending chickens to cook on the surface of the sun and then scooping it out of the ocean was originally a recipe. the restaurant owner says he will keep trying to send chickens into space. jeff bezos is about to do the same thing. block block block. here's tonight's tickle me to that joke, guess the punchline on twitter, tickle me tuesday #. why did the teddy bear get

dessert? coming up. ♪♪

not only is this the no spin zone but tickle me tuesday, why did the teddy bear skip dessert? he was already stuffed. >> kennedy, you're so talented, try harder do

better, i know you can. >> that was a good one pete. one of the worthingtons got it. they got it right on twitter, maybe y'all heard it before. i'm going to have a tickle party. thank you for watching the best hour of your day. follow me on twitter and instagram. tomorrow night guy benson. i'm not going to be here ♪ ♪ south of daytona international speedway there is a stretch of beach florida locals call the fun coast. here you find new smyrna beach, "national geographicses" named one of top 10 surfing towns in the world, 17 miles of white sandy beaches are playgrounds for water sports of all kinds, if you are driving culture, art galleries, museums and

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