inflation report up 9.1% year-over-year. the dow down 200. nasdaq, s&p, giving away 1points for each. that does it for us tonight on "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: happening now, the white house spends all day downplaying inflation that everyone sees has rocketed to the hottest in four decades this is the same cynical, gaslighting pollyanna top pin they did on afghanistan. the democrats want more of the same poison that got us here. more government spending when the federal reserve is raising your interest rates to battle inflation from government spending. president biden again misleads. we'll tell you how.

with us senator ron johnson, congressman byron donalds, jason smith, guy lewis, joe concha and ted williams. the criminal probe fires up again into hillary clinton's debunked trump russia. latest moves by special counsel john durham. plus this, how l.a. county lawmakers are violating california's state constitution trying to out of and get rid of l.a. county sheriff alex villanueva after he slammed their weak on crime agenda, and as 7-eleven stores are encouraged to close in l.a. after a string of deadly robberies. first the assassination threat against supreme court justice kavanaugh to this, a new threat against progressive representative pramila jayapal. the push intensifies to protect schools as video leaked showing police officers not doing anything for more than an hour in that mass school shooting in uvalde, texas. and the new social media fight, it's a slap fight. it is escalating between

elon musk and former president trump. elon musk and hunter biden, an elon musk and an msnbc anchor. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay. take a check of your money. we begin with stocks. look at your portfolio. stocks are down in choppy trading. inflation coming in hotter than expected in june 9.1%. it's a new four decade high. it is wiping out the 5.1% wage gains for workers. wall street is betting on potential jumbo rate hike of a full one percentage point when the fed meets later in a few months. the white house topspin, inflation a thing of the past. inflation at a peak, when the president said that in december. it is clear inflation is not transitory as the white house has claimed. also what is not transitory

their absurd rhetoric and topspin. this is the case against recession, consumer spending increased year-over-year by 4%, corporate profits rising 10.6% versus this time last year. also to this, president biden did land in israel to start his middle east trip. edward lawrence live in jerusalem with the latest. edward? reporter: liz, president joe biden has not talked publicly about the inflation we're seeing with 41-year highs in inflation, the president release ad statement, he is pushing his spending bills and wants congress to pass those in the statement, adding this, tackling inflation is my top priority. we need to make more progress more quickly, getting price increases uncontrol. then the statement went back to the same things he has been doing all along. release from the strategic reserves, calling on gas companies to lower prices quickly if oil prices drop and capping prices for buying oil from russia. >> definitely benefiting from

that 40-cent decline at the pump. they're still driving a lot but gas prices awrong with all these other categories are still unacceptably elevated. that is why we need more policy. reporter: yeah, the administration looking for more spending as a way out of this. republicans are saying that some of this inflation we're dealing with could have been avoided if the president made smarter policy decisions. one nugget coming out of this, the white house went into this, into this israel trip saying the president was not going to shake hands. that got scrapped when he arrived. you sigh the president of israel go for the hand shake. a very long fifth bump from president biden. benjamin netanyahu got full handshake with, we see if he tries to fifth -- fist bump, if the king of saudi arabia if it's a head nod how the president manned dells that situation on friday when he goes to

saudi arabia. elizabeth: edward lawrence thank you for joining us. good to see you. welcome to the show, senator ron johnson from senate budget and homeland security. senator, your reaction to the new inflation report. in the reagan era, reagan and era are battling inflation. right now we have biden and jerome powell. how do you feel about it? >> not very confident. today's numbers were depressing. i really hoped we peaked. we would see inflation start coming down, moderating. that doesn't appear to be the case. of course biden doesn't have a clue. you used the right word, poison. that is what their policies have been, they have been poison to our economy and the fact that they would actually be pushing more deficit spending and tax increases. i guess they think maybe a tax increase would reduce the deficit of any kind of spending they're proposing but, for businesses, tax increase is an increased cost, maybe pass that along to consumers. a tax increase would be

inflationary as well. these people don't have a clue. they won't admit they're wrong. another big element of inflation is their war on fossil fuel. they're not going to end that war. they're absolutely dedicated to the green energy fantasy. there is no end in sight with this administration in power. elizabeth: you know what it feels like? it feels like they're talking like it is not a problem, it is not a problem for the american people but it is a political problem for them, senator. small businesses are getting hit hard. the nfib small business optimism index is dropping for six straight months to record low below 90. it is below a five-decade average of 98. let's watch the president fighting back against a reporter questioning him he shouldn't run again. >> mr. president, what is your message to democrats that don't want you to run again. >> they don't want me to run. >> 2/3 don't. >> read the poll, jack. you guys are all the same. that poll showed 92% of

democrats would vote for me. >> majority of democrats don't want you to run in 2024. >> 92% said they would vote for me. elizabeth: 92% is misleading, that is if he running against trump. 61% of democrats, 3/4 of democrats, nine out of 10 democrats under age 30 president biden do not run again. your take what he said. >> president biden is detached from reality. he is delusional. the fact that he says it is not hurting people it is hurting enormously. mike lee, issued a report showing state by state harm. in wisconsin, prices have increased 14.5% since the start of the biden administration costing wisconsin families just under $8500 per family. that is hurting people. inflation is a tax on everybody. it is particularly reaggressive to seniors on a fixed income, people at the end of the income

spectrum. the very people that democrats purport to represent. let's face it democrats are the party of the elite. it's a real shame. elizabeth: it is more white college graduates versus blue-collar workers the polls show moving into the gop party. that is quite a sea change. let's get pack to the poll for just a second. former president trump is slamming new york times sienna poll. shows 49% of republicans don't want trump to run again either. president trump pushing back against that. january 6th hearings, the fight about that and whether that is having an impact against trump. we got to move on to this though this is the story that is coming up, what is congress going to do about inflation? we have democrat senator joe manchin is saying no to chuck schumer's reconciliation bill. they want a trillion in tax hikes and more government spending that is the same poison that got us here were inflation? >> democrats in charge are not going to do anything about inflation. with republicans in charge we

need to get our deficit spending under control. a cowell things we could do. for one thing this is actually a suggestion by phil gramm when he was in washington a few weeks ago, why do we allow seniors to reenter the workforce, don't charge them payroll tax? we definitely need to put work requirement the on welfare. as big as a problem inflation is, it is enormous problem, i'm still concerned about a long-term labor shortage. we need to incentivize people to get off the sidelines, into the workforce so employers hire them to meet demand that is the other problem with inflation, too many dollars chasing fewer goods because manufacturers can't hire enough people to make products. >> it is staring them right in the face, senator. fire up the u.s. energy sector, fire up the sector you will mop up inflation. i want to move on to this, congressman ronny jackson, that former president obama rebuked ronny jackson questioning obama's health. revealing this in his memoir. he was the white house

physician. here is the thing, obama did not argue against jackson's professional assessment. where is the sharp attack from obama? >> first of all i would ask president obama do you think president biden is sharp as he was eight years ago? i take no pleasure saying that. it is sad. i'm getting old myself. i haven't seen advantages of getting old but it is really showing in joe biden. again the, office of the presidency is the most strenuous job in the world. we need somebody who is at the top of his game, president biden is not. elizabeth: senator, we move on to this, "new york times" is quoting increasingly quoting anonymous white house sources saying that the president should not run again. that they are in constant cleanup mode over his mistakes and outburst at the media. watch this. reporter: you don't have to stand every time i hear "hail to the chief," wonder where the hell is he? took me a long while, you think i'm joking, i'm not. turn around, where is the

president? i think it's time to give ordinary people a tax break. i got them $1.9 trillion relief so far. i wrote the bill. on the environment paid them more. i'm the commander-in-chief. >> why don't you change his behavior, mr. president? president biden: what do you do all the time? when did i say i was -- you don't understand that. that is not what i said. you're playing a game with me. i no. the answer is no. >> do you think inflation is political liability of the midterms. >> a great asset. more inflation. what a stupid son son of a blee. that is interesting reading. i assume you got in the journal because you like to write. so you see that, senator what you're seeing is, weird whispering and outburst at the media. you know, from where you sit in d.c., what do you see in terms of the change in joe biden?

>> first of all, liz, it's sad. it is also obvious that he is in cognitive decline. this is dangerous, that is dangerous to have a president of the united states not at the top of his game. senator grassily and i tried to warn americans about joe biden's compromise, financial integrities, i said he was unfit for office before the 2020 election, not only because of the compromise, just what was happening from age. elizabeth: "new york times" is running multiple headlines quoting anonymous again, white house officials. who is leaking at the white house and who do they want instead of biden? >> i have no idea and but they're being truthful and the press is still coughing for this guy. that is part of the problem -- covering. we have accomplice it and corrupt media. elizabeth: senator johnson come back soon. >> have a good night. elizabeth: you too. criminal probe fires up again in hillary clinton debunked trump russia. moves by special counsel john

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elizabeth: joining us r us from house oversight and reform congressman byron donalds. this disturbing report, congresswoman pramila jayapal called police. the man was arrested on suspicion after hate crime for threatening to kill the congresswoman near her seattle home. this is about toning down the rhetoric right? this is not about politicizing it, people need too tone it down. >> i agree. for pramila and her family i'm glad they're safe and that law w enforcement was able to get this person into custody. what we understand, this is what every american is afforded should rely upon, safe communities and safe streets. you should be allowed to be safe in your home. nobody is allowed to come to

your home and threaten you. it is flat-out wrong. one of the things we have to get a handle on in some respects yes, the rhetoric. but also the policies around law enforcement and around prosecutions and major cities in the united states. elizabeth: you're not allowed, it is against the law to protest against supreme court justices, period, full stop, enough. you know, let's move on to this. l.a. county lawmakers, congressman, they're violating california's constitution. they're trying to toss out l.a. county sheriff alex villanueva via emotion. he consistently called out their weak on crime agenda to your point but california state constitution says they can't do that. he can only be removed by recall or through election or grand jury or state attorney general what is going on here? >> unfortunately the worst politics happened in l.a. county where they totally lost focus on the things that actually matter for a thriving city. number one is safe streets. number two is having sound

economic policies so businesses can thrive. that's what makes a city thrive. totally lost track of that. elizabeth: you have 7-eleven corporate leaders saying 7-eleven stores you may want to close in the l.a. area. half a dozen robberies, two dead, three wounded. we have l.a. district attorney george gascon, he face as second recall for going weak on crime. people are saying if you out of the sheriff you have oust this guy too. >> they have to get rid of the d.a. he is not prosecuting anybody. what memo that sends to officers on every street in america that the district attorney will not actually press charges. why will the officers go out to arrest people? it's a waste of time. it is paperwork. it doesn't go anywhere. lar county, people of los angeles, get your house in order. time for the d.a. to go because he will not keep your city streets safe in that city. elizabeth: congressman, talk about what is going on in the

new york city. united bodegas spokesman, former new york american date, mateo, he is calling for murder charges to be dropped. they were filed against bodega store clerk jose alba. he was arrested and charged with murder. he fatally and stabbed in self-defense he says a career criminal arrested 27 times who tried to attack him. the far left, manhattan d.a., alvin bragg, pushed for bail for half a million dollars for mr. alba. that was cut down to 5000. congressman, you and i know this. we talked about this, new york passed bail reform in 2020 wiped out bail for dozens offenses. second agree manslaughter, child sex crimes. they wipe out bail for thats but they want high bail for that guy with self-defense. >> soros-backed district attorneys like one in manhattan, these guys messed up the entire

bail system not to mention prosecution. they pick and choose when they want to levy bail when politically convenient for them. if somebody dice it must be investigated by law enforcement. everybody supports that. if it is found the death occurred because after criminal act, they have to be prosecuted. everybody supports that. we can't have the district attorneys who decide when they want to pick and choose how they will levy justice. that is not a consistent way to apply the law. it actually upsets more people and causes more lawslessness in our streets. elizabeth: that is an important point in you just made. it breeds cynicism. listen to mateo, he says you have to protect the victims first. >> listen this city is really in bad shape. bill de blasio left us in shambles. these new elected officials that have taken over need to really buckle their belt and understand that we need to protect victims. we need to get rid of the criminals. and we need to give the city an opportunity to be what it was

during giuliani and bloomberg. we had the best 20 years in our life, in my lifetime here in new york city. we can't go back. >> congressman, this is what's happening here. let's talk about this for a quick second. biden's border collapse is hitting u.s. cities right as they are weakening crime laws. right as they are letting people out. i mean new york's no bail law approved by state democrats in 2019. congressman, it helped free from jail last week two mexican drug smugglers caught with more than 140-pounds of crystal meth worth street value of 1.2 million. they were set free with no bail. >> look i will tell you right now, democrat policy, whether here in washington, d.c. or in state legislatures like new york or even in new york city are a failure toe communities because you're absolutely correct. you cannot let the drug cartels move fentanyl in our country

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♪. elizabeth: okay, outrage in uvalde, texas. victims families, the mayor, blast the media for premature release of disturbing surveillance video inside of robb elementary school during the may 24th mass shooting. it shows law enforcement officers waiting, doing nothing more for more than an hour. we have casey stegall from texas. reporter: warn the viewers the are sensitive and disturbing. a series of videos he he had at this timed together by the austin statesman newspaper and kttv news station.

the gunman went in through a unlocked door at 11:30 a.m. within seconds he is firing inside of the joint fourth grade classroom. three officers were outside of the room by 11:37. they took fire and retreated. more than an hour the camera shows hallway filling with cops and people in tactical gear, but it wasn't until 1:50 until the classroom was breached, and the suspect killed. >> the officers got their shield, got their weapons, other protective gear on standing there. reporter: tensions boiled over at the uvalde city council meeting that was hours after the videos were released. the officials planned on making them public coming sunday in a special meeting with uvalde with some portions redacted. some are upset that the full version was published early by the media while others argue it is all about transparency here. liz? elizabeth: casey stegall, thank you for your reporting there. let's welcome to the show

fox news contributor and former d.c. police detective ted williams. it's a pleasure to have you on, sir. your reaction to that report? >> you know, liz, i have been associated with law enforcement for over 40 years and i can tell you this is shocking and this is embarrassing and i can tell you that this is really the exception and not the norm where law enforcement officers would stand around for 77 minutes while babies, babies and their teachers would lose their lives. i mean, when you think about it, in your piece that you just played, these law enforcement officers had armor. they had guns. those children in those classrooms, if that classroom did not have anything. they were calling out for help. they expected law enforcement officers to be there for them.

these law enforcement officers failed these students. they are an embarrassment. it is a sad black mark on many good men and women who serve and protect their various community and would not permit this kind of a situation to occur. elizabeth: we as a nation doing enough to protect schools? i mean the house debated a bill today to launch a nationwide amber alert time system for active shooters. are we doing enough to harden and secure schools just like airports and courthouses? >> you know, liz, it is a catch 22. i our children should be able to go to a school and learn. a school should not be a prison but we're living in the 21st century where we have to do more than what we're doing to protect these students. we're going to have to start looking, i think, at facial recognition software where each

and every student's face is recognized on that software. we're going to have to look at various alarm systems. we're going to have to have more video concepts in these schools and i think we're going to have to deal with for fortification f doors. we have to be careful because we don't want to lock the bad guy in with the young kids with a fortified door but all these things are the things we're going to have to look at i believe, liz, in this day and time. elizabeth: ted, to your point, "the washington post" is reporting the scope of this. roughly 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at schools since columbine shooting in 1999. now you got "the wall street journal" also reporting these school shootings are driving sales of new locking systems and alarms. more than nine out of 10 schools use security cameras. is that enough? if we'll have 18-year-olds with

rage fan is fantasies with assat rifles doing massacres like that which is total disgrace and evil we need to do more as a nation to protect our nation. what do you say to that? >> you're absolutely right. we certainly need to do more. think about it, when you think about the 300,000 you just mentioned. think about the posttraumatic distress these students will suffer under the circumstances. what we've got to do is come up with the 21st century and use 21st century equipment to protect our schools. elizabeth: ted williams, thanks for your service to our country. great to have you on. to this story, there is a social media slap fight. it is escalating between elon musk and former president trump, elon musk and hunter biden, and elon musk and an msnbc anchor. congressman jason smith talks to us about it coming up on "the evening edit." ♪.

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♪. elizabeth: back with us now the ranking member from house budget, house ways and means. he is jason smith. congressman, a pleasure to have you on as well. congressman this is a story about power and influence. former president trump is a social media fight with elon musk. musk would be worthless without government subsidies. that the former president should hang up and sail off into the sunset. he is not for trump and would vote for ron desantis. what is your take on this story? >> liz, no surprise, wealthy elites have never been fans of donald trump. virtually donald trump has always been the person fighting for the working class, the people, and what some of the elites refer to as flyover country. this is just another example. we have so many issues, liz, that is out there right now. the inflation numbers came out

at 9.1% year to year. inflation has gone up 13.8% since joe biden has taken office. that is what we should be focused on right now. elizabeth: we are, but it is also this, sir, it is this, musk was going to take over twitter. this was a fight about free speech and conservatives say censorship on twitter. others say conservatives are not censored on twitter. musk has called out musk as a bs artist after musk backed out of 44 billion-dollar take over deal. that interest in as tech stocks dropped in a bear market and tesla price also fell. twitter is now suing musk. they say you have to do do the deal. they are hammering musk, saying we gave you 40 terabytes of data. why is elon musk backing out of that. this is a big story, congressman. you and i talked about it. it is also about free speech as well on social media. it is definitely about free speech.

it is so interesting to watch this timeline play out. at the very beginning twitter was doing everything it could to make sure elon musk doesn't buy it. now they're trying to force him to purchase it? what might be interesting is to see what happens in this court case. if you figure out how many like fake bot accounts that probably exist with twitter which elon musk has shared that he believes that the percentage is much higher than what's to be expected, that might actually pierce the corporate veil as i would say of twitter, that twitter may not want the world to know about. also they might see exactly how twitter has targeted conservatives. i can tell you since this process has happened, liz, my twitter account has gotten numerous more followers all of a sudden. they have now allowed conservatives to find conservatives on their platform. elizabeth: to your point, it is about silicon valley dominating

the national conversation as we go into an election year. that is always the concern about big tech's influence on the national conversation. also this, musk take aim at president biden. he published a meme after man with gopro helmets captioned with hunter biden buying crack and multiple prostitutes. musk gets into a fight with quote stephanie ruhle, msnbc anchor. musk tweeted back, imagine if msnbc did that. this is like a sprawling social media fight a slap fight. it is getting messy and all over the map. your final word? >> it is something. to see all the fights out there. hunter biden needs to worry about himself not get into a fight with elon musk. apparently he needs to find where his laptop is since twitter tried to hide some of those stories during the presidential race. i mean, come on, like i said, we have serious issues at hand. real wages went down 5.1% since

joe biden's been in office. i hope that these wealthy folks, these platforms start paying attention to what are the real concerns of people. elizabeth: i know you want to weigh in on that white hot inflation report. what is your take on isn't what can congress do? what is the white house not doing to stop inflation? >> stop the spending. what this white house is trying to do as a solution right now is pass another spending bill that's hundreds of billions of dollars and increase a trillion dollars of taxes on families, small businesses and farmers? that is the wrong approach. stop the spending. 9.1% inflation. highest since december of 1981. that's a problem. elizabeth: you know senator mcconnell is out with a line saying these are the same democrats who spent us into inflation. they now want to tax us into recession. congressman smith, a pleasure to have you on. come back soon. growing questions about the secrecy and the mystery surrounding climate czar john kerry's office, what exactly he does and who is on his payroll.

joe concha is going to take it on ahead on "the evening edit." >> it is undoubtedly billions of dollars he is able to influence and push. i think everybody deserves to know how much money he is spending and who works for him. ♪.

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be this administration's main agenda. >> oh, completely. we forget by the way, liz, this man you're seeing on your screen right now in john kerry, he was one state away, ohio, in 2004 from beginning the actual president of the united states and now he is the climate czar. makes so much sense to name all these people in the administration after russian, whole russian thing, right as far as that jargon border czar,e czar. stop using czar. that could be a good start. john kerry what is he making? i believe he comes from money at last check. theresa heinz is worth a lot more than we are put it that way, probably billions. why not donate your salary john kerry like donald trump did when he was president. it has been 299 days since there have been inquiries into kerry's office in terms of what he is making, and what he is spending

and he is not being transparent in any way, shape or form and the public isn't buying what john kerry is selling because they see hem him go to places like davos with meetings on climate on a private jet. can this administration not do anything hypocritical like john kerry does on private jets this is such a joke. people don't like this stuff. elizabeth: i hear you loud and clear. to your point about czars. we won't call you the media czar. >> i appreciate that. elizabeth: what you will see to your point is about kerry flying in private jets around the world as he preaches against fossil fuels and americans are suffering pain ad the pump. by the way his office, they want more than $16 million in the budget for kerry's office where from one knows what he is doing, and who is on the payroll. let's listen to john kerry talk about a no carbon future, but then to your point he tries to explain away why he fly as high

carbon polluting jet around the globe. >> i am absolutely convinced we will get to a low carbon, no carbon economy on this planet. this battle is being fought now for the next 8 years. we need china, i hope xi and i will take what we've done to win the battle. it is the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle. i believe the time it takes me to get somewhere, i can't sail across the ocean. i have to fly, to meet with people and get things done. >> okay he has flown from russia, to china, to india, right? it is unclear what he is doing to help us here at home. >> that's right. take the middle seat like i have to when i fly somewhere on southwest or something? you will still get there in same amount of time. private jet isn't needed. by the way, the day that russia actually invaded ukraine, this is what john kerry actually

said. quote, i hope president putin will help us to stay on track with respect to what we need to do for the climate. in other words, nuclear-armed country invades a neighbor, all he is worried about is the climate. i'm sure putin is not bombing ukrainian cities, oh, boy, this may hurt my carbon footprint. of course not. this person is deranged. in the end you have an administration overall to the points you led off with, who is running things exactly, who continues to not expand the keystone pipeline which they canceled five minutes after taking office or drill in anwr in alaska, they continue to cancel oil leases off the gulf coast and alaska. that is why we're in the position we are in terms of gas prices, liz. >> joe concha, come back soon, media czar. just kidding. >> nyet. elizabeth: criminal probe fires up again into hillary clinton's debunked trump russia. the latest moves by special counsel john durham. former u.s. attorney guy lewis

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throwing the net out wide. frankly should have thrown it out wider in my humble opinion. he needs to make sure he gets the evidence in there. puts it on convicts this guy. he is clearly trying to flip him to work up the ladder, liz. and i'm wishing him all the luck in the world. elizabeth: to your point, senate intelligence had reported that christopher steel, again hillary clinton campaign and dnc paid for christopher steele's work with the perkins coie law firm sending money to fusion gps and fusion got steele on the stick. he was working with a russian oligarch working with putin. this is happening, before, during, after his time targeting

trump. there is a lot of wiredness weirdness around this case, what is going on. the question around this guy, what would have happened if trump lost? we would have never heard about it. >> it would have been buried, we would have never seen it. look, my only criticism of john is the case he investigating and brought, again had i been running the show i would have charged the conspiracy to obstruct justice and to make false statements. i would have charged these people together. elizabeth: who would have you charged, who, who would you have charged with conspiracy, who are you saying charged together? >> i clearly would have charged the attorneys that were involved. i would have looked strongly at the law firm. i would have traced the monies back to who paid for these lawyers. we know they came from the hillary clinton campaign and others. so i would have followed the money. i would have charged those people absolutely that were

involved in this conspiracy to obstruct justice and to provide false information to the fbi and frankly, to fix an election. that is what was going on here. elizabeth: the trump voter feels that we've spoken to a lot of trump voters. they feel trump got railroaded by the fake trump russia story that the hillary clinton team cooked up. she was involved in her own, we're retreading her own email scandal. using her own private email system basically as secretary of state to communicate with foreign leaders. so that was an issue. then she moved on to this. when you look at the backstory, how it played out, how the reporting was done on it, and how it was swallowed hook, line, sinker this was a real thing when it wasn't we can't ever be here again in our nation. this can never happen again in america. >> absolutely horrible. it was, it turned the election on its head in terms of trying to make sure that true and

honest information was put out there and frankly i don't think a lot of these people that were involved are ever going to be brought to justice. elizabeth: we'll stay on it, guy lewis. come back, good to see you. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. hope you have a good evening and join us again tomorrow night. ♪. >> inflation is now higher than hunter biden on new year's but the white house claiming the new numbers aren't real. come on, man, we've all been to the supermarket. who are they trying to fool. i'm jimmy faila in for kennedy. inflation in june 9.1%. the biggest jump since yours truly was in kindergarten, 1981 for everyone out there who isn't my mother. 9.1% is low. butter is up 26% since this time last year. gas is up 60%.