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midterms. americans feel the recession. the president said yeah, it is quote, possible but today the white house tries to deny even said that again the white house and dealt contracts threaten saudi arabia. again u.s. energy pleads stop blocking us. now a day of yet another white hot inflation read, again a white house official talks tax hikes on americans. joining us tonight congressman james comer brian steil, jeff van drew and mike johnson, craig murphy. jamie mcbride and "the washington times" charlie hurt. we have a hot show for you tonight. more on this bomb emis. the fbi wanted to pay christopher steele a million dollars for dirt on trump that did not exist. president biden for the first time addresses possible federal criminal charges against hunter biden. and the backlash after a pfizer executive admits the covid vaccine was not tested to stop transmission before it hit the

market. it is igniting a fiery debate about vaccine mandates. and the premier of alberta canada slams pandemic shutdowns. plus a new ranking of the most dangerous cities in the united states now roiling city councils nationwide. a major fight by parents against inappropriate books for schoolchildren. parents are the new midterm election force as house gop demands the justice department preserve documents in its battle with school board parents. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: check your money. thanks for joining us. we begin with stocks ending down. it was volatile trading action today. the s&p, nasdaq, again hit new lows for the year after wholesale inflation jumps more than expected to 8 1/2%. the federal reserve minutes reveal deep concern about

chronic inflation. this is basically ceiling the deal on yet another 75 basis point rate hike next month. the president now on a three-state tour out west in colorado, california and oregon. fears of the weakness in democrat party there. this as the midterms are less than a month away. edward lawrence at the white house with more. edward? reporter: well, liz we're hearing that beep, beep, beep of messaging backing out here at the white house. a year ago president joe biden said we will not have a recession. about three months ago that messaging shifted to a recession is not likely. now it's possible. as we see the mounting data showing inflation has not peaked yet possibly and we hear about economic pain americans have to bear. president biden focused on saudi arabia because the saudis did not hold off on oil production cuts after the midterm elections. president says he will reassess u.s. saudi relationship. president we'll react to

saudi arabia and take consultation when they get back and will take action. reporter: senator tom cotton believes the president's energy is misplaced and he should support the fossil fuel industry in the u.s. while making a transition. >> if we produced more here we wouldn't have to depend on anyone overseas but two, joe biden, barack obama and the democratic party wage ad campaign to ostracize and margal eyes ize, alienate saudi arabia 13 years and coddling iran. reporter: there is no pivot by president biden even as europe making a pivot with rising prices and issues they are having with energy there. elizabeth: edward lawrence thank you so much. great reporting as always. joining us congressman brian ane from house financial services and congressman jeff van drew from house homeland security. gentlemen, thank you for joining us tonight. we want to show more back and forth with the white house seesawing. first watch the president saying

yes, a recession is possible. then you hear the press secretary take that back. reporter: i don't think there will be a recession. if there is will be a slight recession. >> you said a slight recession is possible? port president it is possible. we passed $368 billion will help, a trillion dollars, billion dollars off the sidelines for investment. >> president has been pretty consistent. said multiple times in the past while a recession is possible he does not think there will be a recession. elizabeth: okay. as for that investment it is $121 quadrillion. who is counting. d.c. no one. let me back up. congressman style, first to you. why does biden's press shop always feel like you're fighting with a flock of seagulls overhead getting a straight answer? two quarters of negative growth during the summer. that is a recession. >> time and again it is clean-up on aisle 46. you're absolutely right. we had two negative quarters in

a row. we're in a recession. americans are feeling it. they can barely afford the things that fair families need. all the lights are blinking on the warning screen right now about the situation before us. this administration refuses to address the facts as they're presented. we got to change course. the biden administration continuing to refuse to do that. this is why retiring nancy pelosi this november 8th is so absolutely critical. elizabeth: yeah. you know people are tired of like the constant fighting, the blood feuds, congressman, van drew to congressman style's point. it is so nasty in d.c. jamie dimon, mohammed el-erian, larry summers warn us a recession is possible, congressman van drew an. on a day wholesale prices came higher better than expected. you talk about taxing americans to bring down the deficit. what do you make of that? >> that will make things worse. we have a majority party and a

president who doesn't know the hell what he is doing. i never seen so terrible. it keeps getting worse f it wasn't so serious, wasn't so important this would be actually laughable. he says something. then the press secretary has to bring it back. that goes on over and over again. you know why? he doesn't know what he is talking about. he is not telling the truth and not being square with the american people. we have big problems. he drained down our oil reserves that our past president had put there to make sure that we were safe in time of emergency. now they're all the way down and the good work of president trump has been ruined. elizabeth: okay. >> meanwhile, meanwhile, he just keeps rolling along and doing what he always does. elizabeth: let's shift gears to this. we have a new associated press poll. the majority of americans see u.s. relations with adversaries getting worse. so that poll is out there. you are also going to see the president, let's move on to

this. the president claims he did not fly to saudi arabia to ask them about pumping more oil. media reports say yeahs the white house was calling them about that ahead of time before that trip. watch this. >> by the way, let's get straight why i went. i didn't go about oil. i went about making sure we made sure we weren't going to walk away from the middle east and what was going on. it wasn't about, it wasn't about oil. elizabeth: if that was so, if it was not about oil, congressman congressman steil why did the white house put out a fact sheet is was about oil? >> this as completely about oil t was mistake for biden to go to saudi arabia in the first place. you should go to north dakota, west texas to create energy supply here in the united states. he went begging for oil. what he got was a two million barrel-a-day oil cut. instead of being straight with the american people, he changing

his tune claiming he never went to ask for oil. he did. he failed. the american people are suffering as a result. elizabeth: you know, to congressman steil's point, congressman van drew what exactly is the white house energy policy here? gas could be heading back above for dollars a gallon? why does the white house energy policy feel like a ferris wheel broke off the axis careening toward the ocean? now they are threatening retaliation against saudi arabia and opec production cut. gas plieses were rising before the war in ukraine. what is the policy here? >> there is no policy. he is heck of a negotiator, to get more oil at a decent price but we'll have less oil to pay even more. thank you, joe biden for the good work you've done. there is no policy. he thought he would be able to hold out with the reserves and using them which is dangerous until right after the election. the plan was right after the

election, the prices were going to go up. well guess what? once again he estimated wrong. the prices are going up now. people are paying more now. and he is afraid it will hurt -- it is. elizabeth: are you guys both worried about retaliation against saudi arabia here, congressman van drew, first to you? >> i think that is totally inappropriate. it is totally inappropriate. i hate to say it, number one, we have oil here, just like the congressman said. we could open this up and america can be number one and take care of it. number two, there is no reason that saudi arabia has to sell us more oil. they don't have to. there is no retaliation that is really appropriate. it is just a better policy we need. elizabeth: you know opec is citing a slowdown in world economies worldwide. that is why they're saying they're cutting demand. we understand there is probably more to that. congressman steil, where do you come down retaliating against saudi arabia? >> the biden administration has a plan. their plan is to raise prices on

american consumers and they started that by killing the keystone xl pipeline on day one. they continue to fight against domestic production but as we got closer to the election and polls started showing things in the president's favor, that is when he started his tour less than three months ago begging for oil. elizabeth: congressman steil, congressman van drew, thanks again for joining us. good to see you both. this backlash after a pfizer executive admitted the covid vaccine was not tested to stop transmission before it hit the market. it is igniting a fiery debate about vaccine mandates. plus more on this bombshell, the fbi wanted to pay christopher steele a million dollars on dirt on trump that did not exist. opposition research that the hillary campaign and the funded. "the washington times" charlie hurt next on "the evening edit." ♪. ♪ ♪ this... is a glimpse into the no-too-distant future of lincoln. ♪ ♪

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elizabeth: welcome back. it is day two, special counsel john durham's criminal probe into the botched trump-russia investigation. fox news david spunt live at the u.s. district court in alexandria, virginia. with more. good to see you. reporter: good to see you too, liz. court is going late every day until 6:00, late for federal court time. the entire day today focused on brian auten, the fbi

intelligence analyst that john durham, the special counsel personally questioned today. that shows you the stakes of this trial to the special counsel. how important this is, the fact that he is actively participating. ultimately though, even though the fbi offered a million dollars to christopher steele as brian auten revealed in court this week ultimately he did not get that money. igor danchenko though, he is the one on trial behind me. he is charged with five counts of lying to the fbi about some of his overseas contacts and some of his communications especially with a public relations expert official named charles dolan who has contacts with bill and hillary clinton going back to the 1990s. now special counsel durham's team revealed an email from igor danchenko to charles dolan. in that email, liz, danchenko wrote, i'm working on a related project against trump. it is an important project to me. our goals clearly coincide.

durham insists danchenko was the primary source for christopher steele who compiled that widely talked about, debunked steele dossier with accusations about the former president. another name come up in the trial, not to bog viewers down with names, a man named sergey miliam, who had tries to donald trump. we're told in court via durham, danchenko tried to region out to milian to get more dirt on donald trump but that never happened. this is day two we wrapped up in this trial. the second trial in nearly 3 1/2 year probe by special counsel john durham. it is not deer if it will be his last. if it is the last, we expect a public report to be released so everyone in the country and world can read what john durham has to say. elizabeth: always center risk reporting. always great to have you on.

charlie hurt, opinion editor of "the washington times." your reaction to the testimony that fbi wanted to pay christopher steele a million dollars for dirt that didn't exist? this is opposition research. they knew they funded this through the dnc and law firm perkins coie. there is no trump-russia collusion but this was going on. >> no. the fact after the exhaustive investigation, there was no proof donald trump or donald trump's family involved in the campaign. the only collusion with the russians occurred with the hillary clinton campaign and now we know the fbi. so much so that they offered a million dollars for, for steele to verify the salacious and, spunt pointed out, widely circulated claims about donald trump and his alleged ties to russia. the fact that he was not, the only reason he didn't get that

money is because he couldn't verify any of it. so from day one the fbi knew that all of this was bs. elizabeth: yeah. >> they still used the information in order to get warrants to spy on the political campaign of donald trump during a presidential election. and, what we know today, what we knew basically from day one, which is the sitting administration, the obama administration, was using the most powerful espionage apparatus on the planet to spy on a political opponent at the height of a presidential campaign and almost 99% of the people in the media, in the press, in the political press ignored that story and ran with the lies instead. and that's why we are where we are right now, liz. elizabeth: charlie, the justice department admitted in 2020, when it stripped out the so-called fbi misinformation about validation for the fisa

wiretaps they did not meet legal thresholds and standards. they should never have been issued. reports that house intelligence under representative devin nunez sent 17 subpoenas to the fbi about information payments to confidential sources. the fbi never turned over the information. more and more when you look what is going on, court watchers say the fbi knew it could not verify the trump-russia collusion narrative t was going after lower level crimes, allegedly against, proven against other trump operatives but no trump rush that collusion and effectively misled congress and media. >> they lied to everybody about it. elizabeth: to your point, the media took the ball and ran with it. >> yeah. the media took the ball an ran wit. the media awarded themselves pulitzer prizes for reporting in "the washington post" and "new york times." they have not retracted those pulitzer prizes.

they have not given those pulitzer prizes back. they them for fake news, fake reporting about a fake scandal all because they hated donald trump and they were willing to print anything in order to smear donald trump. elizabeth: but charlie -- >> a case. elizabeth: go ahead. >> just as i say, this trial, it's a difficult trial. you're trying to prove that somebody lied to the fbi. they're pretty high standards about all of that. elizabeth: igor danchenko. but we got to talk talk about machiavellian the hillary campaign was. brian auten the fbi confirmed they began to get steele reports that the hillary campaign funded, debunked russia collusion narrative in around september 19th, 2016. charlie, that was the same time then clinton campaign lawyer michael sussman was going to fbi headquarters with allegations that the trumporg organization

communicating with alfa bank on back channel when it was hotel spam. go ahead. >> the alfa bank thing was a whole different fang scandal they made up out of whole cloth, that was handed to them by clinton, by the clinton campaign and the dnc and the fbi took it, ran with it. yet again the media took all of it. they ran with it again because they hated donald trump. elizabeth: this country, this country was put through -- >> this case might be difficult to prove. elizabeth: this country was put through a world of pain for years. we had msnbc, cnn -- >> we lost a duly-elected presidency. elizabeth: network tv, cable channels going with the story without questioning it. washington post, "new york times" pushing on trump-russia collusion. we had robert mueller. we had all sorts of problems the country was put through. we see what was going on what the hillary campaign was doing and the dnc. final word? >> it was an insurrection, clear

and simple. they won. they succeeded. elizabeth: all right. use of the word insurrection is interesting there. charlie hurt, thanks so much for joining us. come back soon. president biden addressing possible federal criminal charges against his son hunter biden and the backlash after a pfizer executive admitted the covid vaccine was not tested to stop transmission before it hit the market, igniting fiery debate over vaccine mandates. congressman greg murphy onge "the evening edit"r next. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire ♪ i got into debt in college

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♪. elizabeth: back with us now, congressman greg murphy. also a former surgeon. congressman, it is a pleasure having you on. we want to show what we reported last night. pfizer's president of international markets, international developed markets we should say, testified at a hearing in europe that the covid vaccine has not been tested to prevent transmission, was not tested for that before it went to market. listen to this. >> i speak english so there are no misunderstanding. was the pfizer covid vaccine tested on stopping the transmission of the virus before it entered the market? if not, please say it clearly. >> regarding the question around, did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market? no. no these, you know, we had to really move after the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the

market. >> in many countries like the u.s. and italy vaccine mandates were introduced for certain professions. many people lost their job, their livelihood, their business because they stood by their principles. all of this was based on the idea that vaccination helped prevent the spread of the virus but this has now proven to be a big lie. i find this one of the biggest scandals of our time. >> the community that faced the most restrictions on their freedoms in the last year were those who made a choice not to be vaccinated. i don't think have ever experienced a situation in my lifetime where a person was fired from their job or, not allowed to watch their kids play hockey or not allowed to go visit a loved one in long-term care or hospital, not allowed to get on a plane to go across the country to see family or even travel across the border. so they have been the most discriminated against group i ever witnessed in my lifetime.

elizabeth: that was premier of alberta, canada. your reaction to all the sound bites you just heard. >> yeah, so, liz, the purpose of a vaccine is to decrease the severity of a disease if someone gets it, that's the bottom line of the second things we found out if it decreases trans missability, that's great. the real problem is, this is what happened throughout the entire pandemic, that we had people like fauci that decided it was all about him and it was all about politics in making scientific statements that had no basis in fact. then subsequently it was extrapolated, extrapolated, where the case basically became vaccine bullying, you were shamed if you were not wearing a mask or shamed if you didn't have a vaccine. people love lost their livelihood, liz, i know people lost their lives. they lost their job, lost means of providing for a family and committed suicide. elizabeth: that is awful. >> is it it the greatest scandal any can't say that. this is a blight upon american

medicine. elizabeth: it is about informed consent. give people information. >> right. elizabeth: governments here and around the world mandated everyone get the shot or face getting fired. vaccines have helped but they have been problematic. it is about informed consent. ended up with things like covid passports to eat restaurants. white house did a covid misinformation board. california launched one. doctors could lose their license or financially penalized if they even talked against vaccines. >> sure. elizabeth: again that is the problem, it is about informed consent. >> it goes along the period of wokism, being canceled, mainstream, emperor's new clothes you will be canceled. you see that perfectly as you brought up in california unless you tow the line you have your license taken away as a physician. absolute nonsense. nonsense. this is what people say they shamed sweden what they did, they're 60th in the world in per capita covid deaths.

i will have to check on that statistic. it bows to show you science payment political science that is sadly what the woke left pushed upon american society. elizabeth: we heard reports from the beginning, side-effects, heart problems and more. problem with women and menstrual cycles. scientists are pushing back against the florida surgeon general's warning against covid vaccines hurting men under 40 with cardiac problems. again you and i talked for years about the importance of getting vaccinated. we want people to be safe. experts are calling the florida analysis poorly designed, misleading, not peer reviewed on details and methodology, didn't exam inmedical records but again and again we want to talk about the vaccine benefits and risks as well. again it is about informed consent. final word. >> completely. i said from day one i urge people to get vaccinated but i said this is a decision between a doctor and a patient, not a citizen and a government. and for individuals under age 12 i can't go there and for older

individuals i really would recommend it. elizabeth: got it. congressman, dr. greg murphy, thanks for joining us again. >> great, thank you, liz. elizabeth: we'll have you back on. los angeles now talking quote, about armed service providers to replaced cops on non-violent crimes. we'll take on that debate. plus a new ranking of the most dangerous cities in the united states. it is roiling city councils nationwide. president biden addressing possible federal criminal charges against his son hunter biden. congressman james comer coming up next right here on "the evening edit".

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personally and politically how do you react to that? president biden: first of all, i'm proud of my son, this is kid, not a kid, he is a grown man, he got hooked, like many families have had happen hooked on drugs. he overcome that. established a new life. this thing about a gun, i didn't know anything about it. turns out when he made application to purchase a gun, what happened was, get asked, don't get asked the question are you on drugs use drugs. he said no. >> listen, court the including tax courts, tax courts already ruled you can't use drugs against tax evasion. this controversy is bigger than this case about tax evasion and a gun purchase, right? >> this is small potatoes. if he gets indicted for tax evasion and for lying on a gun purchase then you know, that is nothing compared to what he is

going to get in trouble for things we're investigating for him in the oversight committee are significant. they are dealing with money laundering. they are dealing with influence peddling. they were dealing with being an unregistered foreign agent for our adversaries across the globe in at least four different countries. these things are very serious and we suspect other things. but we'll have hearings, try to learn more. we'll be deposing people. we will get into the weeds. i don't think anyone needs to think if he gets indicted for these small potato items this will be the end of hunter biden. this doesn't even touch the scale of what we're going to be looking into because we believe he is a national security threat and we fear he is compromised this white house. elizabeth: president biden keeps saying he did not know about his son's business deals. listen again to joe biden telling hunter he is in the clear after "the new york times" 2018 expose' on the family's

overseas energy deals with chinese conglomerate cefc. that was china's main player in belt and road push to dominate energy infrastructure. watch this president give me a chance give me a call, nothing urgent. i talk to but the article at least online, will be printed tomorrow "new york times" is good. i think you're clear. >> so he did know about the deal-making. hunter took multiple flights on air force two with his father to do business deal overseas including china. sat in on multiple meetings with his father. >> that is exactly right, liz. joan jobe has been present in countless meeting with meese these people hunter biden was engaged with shady business dealings. these business deals so to speak hunter biden was trying to make successful were at the against the interests of the american consumer. this is something that is very serious and for cnn to just talk about his lying on a gun

application and some minor tax evasion issues it's a real disservice to the media because these are serious crimes. this is why we'll continue the investigation and this will be the front and center investigation when we take the majority in january. again we fear that the shady business dealings of hunter and his uncle jim biden have compromised this president and this is why some of the decisions that joe biden is making that put america last and china first may be happening because they have been compensated millions of dollars from these shady characters in china, ukraine and russia. elizabeth: yeah. so let's bring up again, we started reporting this back in september 2020 when senate homeland security and senate finance put out its report, multiple examples of biden family foreign transactions this report says, raised criminal concerns, even concerns about extortion threats. so who will you try to subpoena? are you going to try to subpoena hunter biden, the biden family's business partners? who else could you subpoena?

to testify? >> right. that is a great question. we're going to try to get the banks to come forward with banging records. we want to know what those 150 bank violations were. congress used to have access with those. for some reason he changed those on the day he became president. we know why liz. he wanted to block congressional oversight an any wrongdoing his son committed. these are things we'll bring front and center. we'll bring subpoena power. hopefully the people will come willingly without subpoenas. this is something very important. for joe biden to act like he doesn't know anything about it. you have the travel logs. visitor logs, from the vice president's residence from the white house as vice president. emails, text messages, voice messages like the one you played. joe biden kept up with every single detail of what hunt hupp was doing and what hunter biden was doing by all accounts is illegal. elizabeth: okay.

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liz. this new task force would respond to what is classified as non-violent or northern criminal calls. the idea to de-escalate low risk situations but removing the armed police force. these responders would work with 911 dispatchers to address calls involving mental health or homelessness, for example, but law enforcement shares these situations could turn dangerous posing a threat to the responders and the community. >> you will find out too late, when it is not non-violent. there is no way to know what a situation escalates. it can happen at the drop of a hat. they call it reimagining public safety but don't ask their own constituents are they interested or not. reporter: we asked residents there are a lot of questions how you determine when a call is non-violent a lot of skepticism whether the responder would be effective if a weapon gets pulled. >> i don't think it would be safe. mental health situation could

turn violent. >> it gets volatile. what is the person trying to do, talk him out of it? come on. they're not trained for a situation like that. reporter: sheriff villanueva said this is more he thinks another way of defunding the police. liz, we'll keep an eye on whether this task force is effective. back to you. elizabeth: always a great report from kelly o'grady. always interesting. welcome to the show los angeles police department detective. he is jamie mcbride. thanks for joining us. thanks for all your hard work keeping people safe. the argument this copreup more police officers to work on violent crime. but it could put providers in danger. what you do think? >> it absolutely does. they're trying to model in san francisco, this year alone on two separate inincidents these unarmed ambassadors were shot. this is the same organization down in los angeles right now patrolling the areas of hollywood and venice. the only thing it will do, it will cause us to have an

increasing costs for crime scene tape. we have to set up crime scene taper where these ambassadors get shot. it is absolutely ridiculous. these calls turn violent quick and there is no way you can tell what is violent and what's non-violent. in fact we have over 210 officers names on memorial wall. a lot of those names are calls they went to they thought were non-violent initially. elizabeth: here is the thing, the l.a. city council has been in turmoil. president biden called for three l.a. city council members to resign after they took part in a racist conversation caught on tape last year and sir, we have breaking news. l.a. council president martinez has resigned. with all the turmoil, what is going on behind the scenes at the l.a. city council, are you confident of the safety of citizens around l.a. and surrounding? >> that best news i heard all day that martinez is stepping

down. we don't need a hypocrite and racist. less h best thing to elect rick caruso. he will go in clean up city hall and start to fight crime. we got a unique peek behind the curtain to say exactly how they are. these are the same people making decisions to put unarmed ambassadors out there. it will do nothing cause more crime to go up. it will be clearly unsafe. i will say this for a year. you don't come to los angeles, we can't keep you safe. like flury martinez. they are in it for themselves. not interested about public safety. we need another chief. we need rick caruso another chief that can fight crime instead of somebody that lost hiss spine two years ago during 2020. we need strong leadership here. elizabeth: ranking of the nation's most dangerous cities, california had 29 cities make the national list. talking san bernardino, oakland, los angeles, are ranked high.

182 u.s. biggest cities on crime risk. natural disasters and other safety issues. that doesn't look food for california at all? >> no this is the same leaders throughout california who are asking for defunding the police. we saw how that went. you know, when some of these city leaders up for re-election are saying they need more police to fight crime. again, this reimagining policing that the sheriff villanueva talked about earlier in the segment is exactly right. it is all a joke. we need strong leadership to fight crime. we need officers with the backing of city leaders and we don't need racist and hypocrites to run the city. you see what happens, when you have people like martinez in office. crime goes up. elizabeth: jamie, good to see you. we have a new push by parents battling against inappropriate school books for schoolchildren. parents are the new midterm election force. house gop demands that the justice department preserve documents in its fight with school board parents.

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elizabeth: joining us now. congressman mike johnson. did you see the f the

footage, major fight in dearborn, michigan, shuts down a school board meeting over school library books say they are too sexuallyic lexplicit for children. >> a amidst the learning lloss, the democratic party and their c cultural on an allies trying to immerse young children in sexual imaginary that is graphic, if you are a parent who simply wants to exercise your first amendment freedom, the department of jjustice will label you as a domestic terrorist, that is why we're concerned. parents need to be exercising their freedom, letting their voices are heard. elizabeth: we keep seeing

reports, parents say as you said, they are n not heard, about whether it is a book about gay sex or straight sex it should not be in schools with 5, 6, se7 and 8-year-olds, talking about what is appropriate for schoolchildren, period. >> amazing we have to say this. you know young children should be learning about reading, writing and. >> math. that is what they are pushing this is a cultural agenda. i tell you, i believe they will pay a big price for this during the election cycle, nothing makes parents ditch a political party faster than one that harms their children, this is not appropriate for young children, e everyone with common sense knows that.

>> you sent a letter to ag garland and the doj, preserve documents about the doj's probe into school board parents last year. >> they have been tracking parents who show up at school board meetings to let their voices be heard, this is a weaponization of department of justice, this is a serious concern, this is part of the reason that people are losing their faith in our system of justice, they don't think it is fair, they have used counterterrorism measures and criminal resources to go after concerned parents. we have been asking for documents and details for over a year more than a hundred letters, attorney general has not turned any of. we have put him on notice, preserve those records. elizabeth: you september over --00 letters in past year, but you get back what? we're seeing two and a half

pages. >> right. a half a page response. twice. to over 100 letters, merely requesting documents. we have jurisdiction over the department of justice, to make sure they are doing gjob, they are not, he has not been responsive, there is a reckons coming we have put them ton not notice to preserve the documents and reserve his pprivate communications, attorney general himself, we'll see what this uncovers, i think transparency and accountability is critical. elizabeth: we're showing on the camera dearborn public schools the school board, behind the scenes parents are furious. parents were outraged. now we hear democrats

working on a resolution to block local book bans because they say, this is about book banning, the parents are saying no just stop the explicit sexual content in schools period. >> that is right. final word that parents need to exercise their right over the local school systems, let their voices be heard, we need to do what is appropriate for kids, this is outrageous. elizabeth: final word, not book bans, it is about that. >> right, let's do what is appropriate for children. elizabeth: thank you congressman johnson, we take the conversation to where decisions hit your wallet, we'll be in dc next monday and tuesday, thank you for joining us next week sense other chuck grassley and money more, join us again tomorrow. have a good evening. >> whatever the fed is doing it's not working! end the fed