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climate spending to cut inflation? with us tonight congressman byron donalds beth van duyne, fox news contributors liz peek, former fbi special agent warren o'connell, byron york joins us "new york post" john levine, retired nypd officer bill stanton. breaking news, former president trump now suing to block the doj from reviewing materials that the fbi seized from his florida home. he wants a watchdog, a special master appointed. also house speaker pelosi's husband now on growing list of politicians and celebritiesgot millions of dollars worth of pandemic loans forgiven, wiped out. the latest outrage, first spenders, firemen, getting assaulted in crime-ridden cities like seattle. weak on crime democrats, their focusing on gender neutral pronounce as felons are set free on no-cash bail for things like homicide, attempted murder and robberies in new york. plus voters in an uproar over

the new rankings of the crime capitals of america. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. let's start with your money, stocks ending in the red t was a broad tech led selloff today. nerves rattled on wall street ahead of federal reserve chief jerome powell. he will speak at jackson hole later this week. also more hawkish signals from fed officials of bigger rate hikes amid recession fears. to this recession red flag, auto giant ford, 3,000 layoffs. this is a bad sign for the white house. it is all about transitioning to electric cars. we got a growing list of companies doing layoffs. connell mcshane has the details. connell, good to see you. reporter: ford has been looking to cut costs and also transition into making more electric vehicles this is all said to be part of that plan as the company

confirms it is indeed cutting 3,000 of its own employees. we're talking about some white-collar jobs. also talking about some contract positions. in fact if you look at the numbers and break it down around 2,000 out of the 3,000 jobs will be salaried positions in dearborn, michigan. the rest of them working in contract positions. now we often hear the term restructuring used when a company announces the round of layoffs. that is exactly what ford is talking about here as well. in this case the restructuring is related to the focus on electric vehicles and the batteries that make them go. now the stock price for ford did fall in today's trading with analysts saying that has ad much to do with $1.7 billion jury verdict in a case involving a rollover accident than the layoff announcement. the ceo of ford these days is jim farley. farley already talked about the company just having too many employees. it also the current workforce

not exactly having the expertise that might be needed to make this transition to electric. so we had those comments coming in. knowing what farley had already said, the announcement of the layoffs today not a huge surprise. liz? elizabeth: connell mcshane, thank you so much. back with us fox news contributors liz peek and byron york. liz, your take on this. good to see you both. liz, we haves dozen of companies doing layoffs this is a red flag recession signal but the president is about to do the new midterm push this week on jobs. "washington post" says he is making things up on job creation. what is your reaction to the story? >> i think we'll see a real change in the jobs market, liz. i written about it, talked about it for a couple of weeks. there are a lot of indicators including a pricewaterhousecoopers survey out recently showing half of ceos are considering layoffs. half the companies in america have already paused or frozen hiring. i think that sort of, it's

inevitable and i think it's a real problem for democrats. joe biden biggest accomplishment, really his only economic accomplishment we had a very, very tight jobs market and i think what the last month's jobs numbers showed us, a very big number by the way the companies are worried about the shortage of workers but that is going to ease. if people begin to see that you know, they can rehire if they lay off people and so forth i think you will start seeing those job addition numbers really come down. elizabeth: interesting. so byron, what's your take on this? because you know, dr. fauci is now announcing he announced he will step down in december and we know he led the way on pandemic shutdowns, right and that just destroyed 22 million jobs. but now you have got democrats in the white house going on a nationwide tour selling expensive green energy, claiming that will cut inflation. we're talking green energy pork for democrat donors. what do you think of this? >> well you know the bill, the

so-called inflation reduction act is filled with green energy pork for a lot of companies who hired lobbyists to try to insert language in the bill that would be favorable to them. that's the way washington works, whether it's a green energy bill or a tax cut bill or any other sort of bill but you know, politically the one-two dreaded punch for democrats was inflation and a recession. what we've seen in the past few weeks is growing optimism among a number of democrats who believe that they are prospects for the november midterms are actually improving. the problem is, this, this new forecast simply does not look good for them, and, and, joe biden's job approval ratings remain very, very low. they're the single most important predictor of a party's performance in midterm elections. elizabeth: to byron's point, liz, you know, he is underwater in the new nbc poll.

55% disapprove of him. something like only 42% job approval, every president, the only president by the way since 1934 who gained house seats the first term president was george w. bush, that was right after 9/11. so you know there is a long track record of failure on green energy spending, liz. your reaction to that? >> yeah. look, i think the president's approval ratings are catastrophically low. the media is trying to make much much the fact he passed one bill which by the way is a complete phony bill. this inflation reduction act 13% of country only believes it will reduce inflation. hard to campaign basically is a lie. by the way all hundreds of billions of dollars going into green energy is sort of comical because most of the country, the top 11 issues of americans don't include climate change. so maybe it is a good thing but american voters are saying this

isn't our biggest issue. we want help with inflation. we want to make sure the economy is going well, housing is economic, et cetera. so i really, i think democrats are kind of whistling in the dark here, whatever, that these minor upticks, minor accomplishments will help biden. elizabeth: got it. >> we've seen no real change. elizabeth: let's watch this, watch. >> monitoring inflation is obviously the purview of the federal reserve. our economists have conveyed that they feel that the impact of our proposals will be transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> today we learned that last month our economy had zero percent inflation. president biden: today we received news our economy had 0% inflation in the month of july. 0%. >> we saw a zero inflation print for the month of july. >> if you are low income you can get your home entirely

weatherized to reduce peoples energy costs on a monthly basis. you can get 30% off the price of solar panels. it is all about reducing costs for people. elizabeth: okay, by the way inflation was not at zero. it was, after the reduced the, after you netted out the drop in gas prices inflation was still at 40-year high. if inflation, byron, if inflation is transitory, inflation is zero, why do we need climate change spending to cut inflation? maybe that is argumentative. you know what i mean? it's a shifting narrative? >> i'm afraid they have actually zero credibility on inflation here and that, the people are simply not going to believe anything the president says. now, we've seen gas prices going down in the last several weeks and that is a good thing. remember when they went up he called it putin's price hike. elizabeth: right. >> he did not call it putin's price cut when they went down. and it appears they might go up

yet again. and i think we're in for several ups and downses before the midterms but the basic trends, presidential job approval, pessimism about the direction of the country, those things are not changing, they're very unlikely to change before november. elizabeth: to byron's point, "the washington post" did a survey, liz, of five dozen democrat candidates for senate, house, governor, gubernatorial races all actively saying they don't want president biden to campaign with them. democrat mark kelly joins him. you will see this, reporters trying to chase down the president. he hasn't had a press conference since june. that was in madrid. he is not talking to reporters. let's watch this. reporter: mr. president. mr. president, will you come talk to us? president biden: no. go get -- >> americans are angry. they're disappointed and they are worried about the future of this country. just 21% of adults say we're headed in the right direction,

and once again three out of four americans say we are on the wrong track. >> would you want president biden to come to arizona to campaign with you? >> hey, i will welcome anybody to come to arizona, travel around the state, at anytime as long as i'm here. >> not exactly an open invitation to president biden to come and campaign with you, even though he won the state of arizona in 2020. elizabeth: final word what do you think, liz? >> i think they're running away from biden as fast as they can. look, 64% of democrats say they don't want him to run again. that is a pretty sour indication of his popularity. and i don't blame them. he is negative underwater on every single issue this is really, really bad for democrats running. i think it will help the gop. >> byron york, give you the final word. go ahead. >> i think the democrats do not have much hope as far as the house is concerned because it is very dependent on job approval.

the senate depends a lot more on candidate quality. republicans have trouble on the issue in georgia and pennsylvania. it is entirely impossible to predict the senate results right now. elizabeth: terrific analysis, liz peek, byron york, fox news contributor. thanks so much. good to have you on. the latest outrage, first-responders, firemen are getting assaulted attacked in crime-ridden cities run by democrats. we're talking seattle, baltimore and more. also paul pelosi joins a growing list of politicians and celebrities who got millions of dollars worth of pandemic loans forgiven. he invested in a restaurant company, they had their loan forgiven. congressman byron donalds is fired up. he is next on "the evening edit" age-related macular degeneration may lead to severe vision loss.

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♪. elizabeth: the biden white house set to make a major decision forgiving more student loans. economists wall street analysts warn, taxpayers will pick up the tab, it will make tuition gouging worse. hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the latest. hillary. reporter: good evening, liz, president biden is keeping student loan borrowers in suspense. payments are supposed to restart on september 1st. biden has nine days to decide if he spares people for the

payments and keeps the pause in place. committee for responsible budget says simply delaying payments to the end of the year could cost $20 billion. the biden administration is downplaying impact of delaying payments. >> there is lot of commentary raised about potential inflationary effects of cancel ing debt cancellation. you have to look at debt cancellation, debt restart, end of the pause, restarting payment. >> department of education is working on an idea called the fresh start initiative would bring 7.5 million borrowers behind on payments out of default, scrub their credit history of the incident and make them eligible to take out more loans. republicans are calling this idea crazy. congresswoman virginia foxx saying this in a statement, it is literally the definition of insanity. it is also wrong if these individuals were unable to pay back their loans the first time they borrowed how will give being them access to more debt help? liz? elizabeth: thank you, hillary

vaughn. thank you so much. joining me now congressman byron donalds from house oversight and house budget, small business. congressman, everything going on in the economy, stems from the botched pandemic lockdowns and shutdowns. dr. fauci is resigning. he will leave by december but republicans say they will probe him, subpoena him over the pandemic, funding dangerous superviruses and vaccines and drugs. what is your insight on this? what do you have? >> listen i think if dr. fauci will go ahead and resign like he is indicated that does not mean he is free from being subpoenaed to appear in congress because at the heart of the most disasterous, most botched public health strategy probably in world history is one anthony fauci. he is the center of it. he is one of the reasons why some cities were locked down for so long, causing so many economic harms, causing children to be farther behind in their education, it all starts with him. let alone the gain of function

research, that yes, he signed off in funding. so he need to comes before congress whether he is an employee of the federal government or not. elizabeth: this comes a week after cdc director rochelle walensky admitted to mistakes in how they handled the pandemic. there is so much to unpack here. fauci is going to get 414,000-dollar pension, gross of 530,000 in just two years. the other thing too, congressman, president biden in march vowed said we'll go after the criminals who stole billions of dollars in relief money meant for small businesses and millions of americans who were laid off but a restaurant that nancy pelosi's husband paul invested invested in got more than, that restaurant company got more than $1.7 million in government pandemic loans wiped out, forgiven. that is a company in sonoma. what is going on here? >> listen, let me be honest about something. joe biden is not going after paul pelosi. neither is merrick garland. nobody else is going after him.

he likes to talk tough, sound good standing up to quote-unquote rich. meanwhile this dude signs a bill last week that gave tax cuts to the rich. so america, don't be fooled by democrat talking points. they do this mess all the time. meanwhile through the backdoor they let their buddies who are rich, they let their buddies in new york who have tons of money or silicon valley who have sons of money, they let them do whatever they want. as long as it sounds good for america they will continue to run their mouths while little actually gets done. elizabeth: congressman, i would like your reaction to hbo's bill maher slamming what is happening with d.c. and spending and pandemic programs. watch this. >> doesn't really make me a conservative, does it, that i don't want to be absolutely robbed blind? is there some number at which i go, you know what? you are just taking my money and wasting it and letting people steal it. makes me a little less excited

about the money they're planning to spend. the democrats were the good government party. why don't they do it? why aren't the republicans who are supposed to be mean old man who watch their money. why don't they do their part? nobody does any of their part? elizabeth: there is cheering and applause at the last line. congressman, reaction to that. "new york times" reporting that covid jobless benefits fraud estimated more than $163 billion. one estimate came in $400 billion. >> listen, the jobless benefits there was fraud. idle program, massive fraud. all through the federal government all the time there is massive fraud. the response from the democrats is more programs, more spending, more taxes. it is a joke. every american should be upset about this. this is not about republicans versus democrats this is about the hard-earned money of the american people being taken from them by the federal government, only to be wasted in programs where we don't even really know if they're efficient and

effective. we need to start to unwind a bunch of these programs. i sure did. elizabeth: you voted against all this spending? >> yes, sir, yes, ma'am. i would do it all again jo congressman donalds good to see you. >> anytime. elizabeth: former president trump suing to block the doj from reviewing materials that the fbi seized from his florida home. he wants a watchdog, a special master appointed. this is a signal how distrusted the fbi is. growing number of officials calling the search botched. we don't know exactly still what the national security threat was. former fbi agent maureen o'connell takes it on next on "the evening edit". ♪ i'm so... ...glad we did this. [kid plays drums]

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appointed but the judge that just picked up this case is judge eileen cannon a judge then president trump appointed to the bench in 2020, two years ago. we'll see what happens there. the trump team has said they would be looking at a special master for several days. last week the magistrate in the case, bruce reinhart, announced in court in florida that he was strongly considering, liz, releasing parts of the affidavit to the public. now the affidavit has the probable cause, what the justice department believes that trump did to commit a potential crime. he is giving doj until this thursday to come up with proposed redactions. now attorney general merrick garland here at doj pushed to release the search warrant in the case. he does not want any part of this affidavit released. as i said that would include the probable cause. think of it liz, like a road map for this investigation. doj officials are concerned that if this affidavit is released in any way it could stop people from coming forward, it could

cause retaliation or witness intimidation. again the magistrate is giving doj to offer any proposed redactions by thursday at noon. liz? elizabeth: david spunt, thank you so much. let's welcome to the show former fbi special agent marine o'connell. welcome to the show, pleasure having you on. thankthank you for your servicer country. >> thank you. elizabeth: the judge signaling some reluctance what the public will see in the affidavit. members of congress say the doj had other options. they could have asked the subpoena to be enforced. why send up to 40 fbi agents to raid trump's home? when you saw the story, what was your thought what was the probable cause could be? >> well, my first thought when i saw the story was utter shock but, then when you think about it a little, you know, it is always best to step back for a moment and look at everything that is going on and why and i really felt that something had to break down, either communications had to break down

or doj was just really, really adamant about, about serving this warrant. which is problematic because it is so close to the midterms as you know. it seems that there should have been a calmer way or a less intrusive way to retrieve these documents and when they talked about exigency, that really didn't sit well with me because i know that they had spirited conversations for two weeks. that has been widely reported. that is what my sources say also and that falls far away from exigency. elizabeth: so to send up to 40 fbi agents, you know, there is talk that "the new york times" is reporting on the list of documents was a letter that trump got from the, from the leader of north korea. also a letter from, from barack obama, trump letters. and then there's talk it was you know, trump has trump russia, the botched fbi probe materials

on that. so we still don't know what it is, what necessitated dozens of fbi agents to search his home. we, have your point new hampshire gop governor chris sununu is blasting biden and the ag for not anticipating the backlash. he is no fan of trump. he is saying this is infuriating, looks politicized. what would necessitate such a dramatic unprecedented raid like this? >> that's a very good question but what i wanted to see was the receipt of the inventory, all the information taken from this. and being a member about the fbi's evidence response team for over 20 years i was subscribed very often, i took the evidence. i took control of it. i made sure it was all packaged perfectly. i think that is a big thing when you go into court to look how well everything is done. i looked at that inventory liz and i was really surprised because it pretty much just identified most things as a box, a box of this or a box of that

and maybe i'm missing something but i would always feel that you had to tie that box to specifically, to specific evidence. for example, bank of america statements from february of 1999 to know march of 2012 is contained in box 1-a. then 1-b, whatever. you have to say what it is, so when you introduce it in court at trial you can verify to certain extent these were the documents that we took, these are the ones that we notated in our inventory and i, you know, i guess it is national security stuff but couldn't they just say, top secret documents from this date to this date? top secret documents from these dates? it -- elizabeth: this feels really sloppy. so what you're saying it is -- >> i wouldn't say sloppy. elizabeth: go ahead.

>> i wouldn't say sloppy, somehow intentional. elizabeth: somehow intentional. in other words they leave it blank. they don't detail in the search, right, the search warrant. so it is either severe national security risk or it is not. if it is not, ag garland trust us mantra has done little to as wage concerns given the botched trump-russia probe. the fact this trump raid investigation is, handled by the same section that handled trump russia. >> keep in mind with that inventory and paper you submit that are contemporaneous with the warrant you served you do have 10 days to come back and show an amended one. so i would be interested to see the amended one but i was shocked at the lack of information on that one document alone. elizabeth: yeah. it is interesting. also the chain of custody issues too right now with what is in those boxes are going to be an issue behind the scenes at the fbi. maureen o'connell, thank you for

your service. pleasure to have you on. >> thank you, i appreciate it. elizabeth: more on the president pushing jobs this week. a he going number of companies like ford announcing layoffs. the white house also scrambling after "the washington post" finds president biden again made false claims about job creation. congressman beth van duyne next on "the evening edit." ♪ only two things are forever: love and liberty mutual customizing your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. if anyone objects to this marriage... (emu squawks) kevin, no! not today. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ shingles. some describe it as an intense burning sensation or an unbearable itch.

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elizabeth: look at this, more than 9,000 u.s. flights were delayed over the weekend. nearly 900 cancellations yesterday alone. the government is threatening new rules. madison alworth at tampa international with the latest. madison. reporter: liz, today alone americans faced over 5600 delays and over 900 cancellations. on the board behind me you can see 13 flights, six of which have been delayed. that is why the department of transportation is pushing for change. in a letter released late last week secretary of transportation

pete buttigieg called on airlines to offer vouchers if a flight is delayed over three hours and a hotel if it is canceled or pushed to today. even though most airlines are supposed to set you up in a hotel if you faced the problem as we learned from people today that doesn't always happen. >> there is no, virtually no help with getting anything taken care of. i had to take care of it myself and through my bosses or everything else, there was no cooperation whatsoever from the airlines and it is unsatisfactory. it is not the way to do business in any way, shape or form. >> they didn't compensate me or say why they had canceled or just canceled it and texted me. reporter: donna should have gotten a hotel when her flight was canceled. she wasn't offered one so she didn't push it. travelers are supposed to get a refund if their flight is significantly changed. the department is looking to change the definition what

significant is. propose travelers get a refund delayed more than three hours, six hours for international flight. they get a refund airport number of corrections or airports are changed. florida holds three of the top five spots. airports are trying to improve the track records making adjustments to flights. british airways said they're cutting 10,000 flights through the summer into the winter because of ongoing issues with staffing and capacity locks at london's heathrow airport. liz? elizabeth: madison, thank you very much. a great story. joining us with a lot of fallout from that house small business, congressman beth van duyne. airlines an airports in chaos. ford laying off 3,000 workers to transition to electric cars but biden is about to push for the midterms this week on jobs and also the climate change will cut inflation? what is your take on all of this? >> i say again you have an administration who has no clue what is actually going on. they talk about what they want

to go on but they are completely out of touch what the average american, what any american at this point is feeling. the increase in costs, the increase in gas, increase in costs for food, how hard it is now to buy things. yeah, you've got, you've all sorts of companies laying off from rivian, tesla, ford in recent weeks all laid off employees at the same time the biden administration is trying to do a victory lap talking about how great the economy is and how they're bringing back jobs. the fact is only thing they have done is brought the jobs that were existing before the pandemic have now gotten filled again. they haven't had any great job increase except for those that were lost during the pandemic. and yet you've got an administration that continues doing victory laps for nothing. elizabeth: they will do more and we have to fact them them what they're saying. they said in december president said electric cars will create

jobs. now layoffs are in. "washington post" found the president making this up. watch this whopper. reporter: there is analysis investment in the chips and science act will create more than one million, more than one million construction jobs alone over the next six years building semiconductor factories in america. elizabeth: "the washington post" gave him four pinocchios. there is no analysis anybody can find. the white house is admitting oh, this is a mix-up. the real jobs number from the chips act is 6200. so we're spending $53 billion on 6200 jobs? is that what is going on? >> those are temporary jobs. we don't know how long they will be or who is paying for those jobs. if it's a mix-up then correct it. the tweet that was out there, the speech out there, they haven't said, we have not heard from biden said it in an official speech talking about the bill even though he tweeted it, if it is wrong admit it. say it is wrong.

-- you're right. >> states like ohio, states are doing it on their own. watch out for the white house taking credit for that. like intel wants a 20 billion-dollar, 2 billion-dollar, let me back up a 20 billion-dollar chips plant near the state's capitol of ohio. they're giving tax breaks to intel. sorry, staying on top of this congressman. we'll have you back on for white house taking credit for what states are doing on their own like ohio. congresswoman van duyne, thanks for joining us. good to see you. >> liz, good to see you. elizabeth: the news breaking today. dr. fauci quits. the cdc admits mistakes. leaving behind wreckage of their bad terrible policies. schools struggling after pandemic shutdowns. and a nationwide teacher strikes. a nationwide teacher shortage. john levine from the new york post joins us next.

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elizabeth: joining us now "new york post" columnist. he is john levine. so great to have you on. so good you joined us tonight. thanks for spending time with us. >> thank you for having me, liz. elizabeth: your take on this, dr. fauci quits, he will leave by december. cdc last week admits mistakes after the pandemic shutdowns ruined u.s. schools, ruined the u.s. economy and there is zero accountability? now we have a teacher and school staffing shortage of 300,000. what is your reaction to all of this? >> it's funny, funny you mentioned that with the cdc because the "new york post" reported that the cdc was working with the teachers unions to come up with coronavirus in classroom guidelines which resulted in extending the school shutdowns and creating all the impossible requirements for schools to reopen. so the truth is, it's, i'm not surprised we have a teacher shortage and we've created such a toxic classroom environment with the shutdowns and with remote learning, that was always unsustainable, now going back to

school with masks and still social distancing and a whole other host of really unnecessary pandemic related restrictions. so it's not surprising now we have hundreds of thousands of teaching jobs unfilled and a lot of states are getting very desperate and reaching out to less than qualified candidates to fill those positions jon, to your point, in d.c. they think they can flip a switch, turn back off, turban okay an u.s. economy without ramifications and fallout. they're not in a real world. they're in a bubble. >> this d.c. media beltway, new york d.c. beltway, ridiculous, henhouse echo chamber repeat etch other and don't question it. now you have the education secretary, miguel car donna use pandemic money to hire teachers that is not the problem. they are totally demoralized under biden and trump administration what they do, it wasn't trump's fault, what

dr. fauci and other leaders said shutting down schools. teachers have to pay for school supplies. biden saying we'll give you $300 to pay for the supplies. it is a fraction of what teachers spend. so not fair to teachers. >> right. it sounds like a great idea to use pandemic stimulus money to hire new teachers but almost reminds me of people that win the lottery. they buy all this stuff and then the devil is in the details of paying for later. eventually pandemic stimulus money will run out. if you hire all the new teachers you have to find a way to keep paying for them that will ultimately fall on the local tax base which pays for public school teach years arizona will no longer require teachers to have a bachelor's degree. florida will give temporary teaching credentials without certification. they're scram scrambling. they have monkeypox outbreaks. reaction this principal at silicon valley elementary

school, global headquarters for google, they kicked out a 4-year-old wearing a mask, escorted out by a cop a 4-year-old, what is it going on in california? >> that is tragic, tragic video. that makes me so sad. children are at least risk of coronavirus as we all know. children have little symptoms and, we mortgaged futures, subjected them to debilitating lockdowns, remote learning, when we allowed them back in the classroom, we're covering their faces with masks and there is untold damage to mental health and -- elizabeth: enough. how about parents, parents across the nation are saying enough. how about fire that teacher and fire the principal for allowing this to happen. your final word? >> you know what? god willing, i mean, unfortunately, what we saw during the pandemic the teachers unions are exercising very powerful veto over --

elizabeth: how about veto them. enough already. enough with the unions. veto you, union. jon levine, thank you for joining us. come back soon. the latest outrage. look at this firemen, first-responders now getting assaulted in crime-ridden cities like seattle, joining cops getting assaulted. in baltimore it is happening. weak on crime democrats they're focusing on gender neutral pronounce? voters in an uproar over the new ranking the crime capitals of america. the story next. ♪

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hochul ordered his arrest. it raises the controversial bail reform laws and did away with offenses and shows him walking out of a restaurant and allegedly punching jesus cortez in the head. he downgraded a initial charge of attempted murder to third degree assault and second degree harassment, neither which are bail eligible. governor kathy hochul and lee zeldon are calling for the criminal charges to be upgraded. da says an investigation continues that could elevate the charges. victim of the attack who was put into a medically induced coma no longer requires a ventilator and his brother told the new york post this is the first big step towards recovery. liz: joining us now is retired nypd officer bill stanton. that's a dreadful story.

your reaction to this story, bill. fire fighters getting attacked and assaulted and cops getting attacked in new york. fire fighters now are getting assaulted in seattle. at least 40 attacks in just four months. i mean, the union there is demanding seattle -- the city take action. what's your take on this story? >> well, my take is, liz, this is simple, if all politics don't have respect for law enforcement and our first responders, what makes you think the perpetrators will? they're taking the lead from our so-called leaders and they're attacking law enforcement so if they're willing to attack first responders, what makes you think they'll hesitate to attack john q citizen? it's just an overall head shake on everything. liz: yeah, to your point democrats like new york governor kathy hochul focused on salespeople like inmates being called incarcerated persons?

that's her fuscous and not saying why she's letting felons be released on no cash bail for manslaughters, assaults and robberies and the media is always full on focused on trump. businesses are closing and leaving citizens. we've got a new ranking of america's crime capitol. the capitols across the nation. look at top worst. new orleans is the worst. you're going to see the list right now. your reaction to this. >> i mean, this is utter insanity to me. do we think these vermin and criminals come out and ask the victims for their pronouns before putting them on vent allurers and comas and take their money? no, they assault them and know the turnstile justice is awaiting them. what you have, you know, men going into female prisons and impregnating their fellow female inmates. i mean, i don't know where we are in our culture, but this is dangerous and we need to focus on protecting the innocent people of the major cities and

all of america in this country. lyse: the three arkansas cops removed from duty under investigation caught on video abusing a suspect on arrest sunday and a thief putting in a choke hold a 23-year-old worker at a dollar store in the bronx and we have lootings and mob lootings and 7/eleven in los angeles and more. this is bad what we're seeing across the nation. your word on that. >> we have to get back to a place where cops respect themselves, where there's proper training and where the citizen knows that they can go to a police officer when they need help and the cop will be there when trouble comes their way. >> you know, i don't know if we have time for winston seres. show this, watch. okay, we don't have time. we let in the sides and looks like 5 million under biden crossing the border and that's about the size of ireland and new zealand.

your final word. >> i mean, people -- we're hiring 87,000irs agents. modern g day storm troopers put that money into the border agents and protect. liz: good to see you. see you again tomorrow night. kennedy: yeah, it's christmas in august and we got the best present ever. dr. anthony fauci today announcing he's going to step down later this year. we deserve this. will his resignation be enough to fix the mess he's created? the most overhyped health official been doing his thing for more than 50 years, way too long. most didn't know who he was till the beginning of the pandemic probably. at first he seemed like the good guy and he got high on his own supply and started getting