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germany combined. this is why biden's polls are so far underwater. he needs scuba gear to get out. this new controversy, saudi arabia now says the white house tried to pressure opec to delay a cut in oil production until after the midterms. was that to keep gas prices low and democrats in power? tonight congressman greg stuebe, dan meuser, "wall street journal" investigative reporters brodie mullins and john west, legal eagle sam dewey, energy pro nick loris, "newsweek"'s bacha and fox news contributor liz peek. president biden in california talking about infrastructure but not talking about crime. of course he will not talk about it. crime is driving u.s. inflation. special counsel durham slams the fbi in court using unverified trump information to get spy warrants on the trump team.

"wall street journal" deep dive. thousands of top government officials caught trading stocks in the same companies they enforce. plus this green fail, electric car charging stations and batteries spontaneously exploding into uncontrollable fires but california, home to a lot of wildfires, they're keeping their voters in the dark about that in their new push to go all electric. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: we begin with a wild day on wall street, stocks rally in a dramatic turn around. there was heavy buying of the dip. it was a volatile session. investors basically shrugging off another brutal read on inflation, hotter than expected. now we got core cpi hit a new record high. it is the biggest annual increase in that number in 40

years. now markets are fully pricing in an expected 75 basis point rate hike next month. we've got a lot at that took at that you about tonight. edward lawrence at the white house with more. edward? reporter: liz, that overall number, that was really big but what really worries the federal reserve is the core inflation, without food and energy prices. that came in 6.6%, the highest level since august of 1982. what that shows is that inflation is entrenched and harder to get rid of but that entrenched inflation is also rising. digging deeper into the report food at home up 13% year-over-year. eggs up 30.5%. overall energy is up but fuel oil to heat homes up more than 58%. and rent up 7.2%, the largest 12 month increase since october of 1982. still, the white house economic advisors feel that the policies of this president are working. >> our policymakers are doing what they need to do to respond to precisely the pressure you made. yes, on energy, yes on medical

costs. again look at the inflation reduction act. again, ask the question, not as inflation is too high, the answer to that is unequivocally yes. are policy-makers doing everything they can in this white house to help bring them down? i think you would have to find the answer is yes. reporter: but the numbers tell a very different story. the president says there will be no pivot in his policies. the republicans are saying government spending which keeps coming is part of the big problem pushing inflation. back to you, liz. elizabeth: edward lawrence thank you so much. joining us fox news contributor liz peek and energy pro nick loris, c3 solutions back with us. liz, like the little boy with the paper bag in the on his head standing in the middle of the room. wharton college, business school, rather, moody's analytics, other economists are saying no, the inflation reduction act is not going to lower inflation and liz, inflation is moving from just goods to the services sector. we're showing how recessions have slammed four presidents,

nixon, ford, carter, and george h.w. bush. how can they say they are making progress with this new read? >> i have no idea, liz. imagine what they say about the inflation reduction act, what do they claim in that? a 300 billion-dollar reduction in long-term deficits will improve inflation. weeks later biden decides to spend half trillion dollars on student loan cancellations this white house is literally fighting itself and it is not helping. the reading today from the cpi was really bad news. it shows that we are going to have a lot more pain. jay powell has importanted about that. i don't think americans are ready for it. i don't think the democrats are going to survive it. elizabeth: that is an important point what liz just made, because, nick, we're talking about the poor and middle class getting slammed. this is throwing 7 1/2 trillion dollars in hot money since 2019 into a locked up system, reeling

from pandemic shutdowns. that is equal to france and germany combined, nick. >> yeah, that is exactly right. this is going to hit the poor the hardest who spend higher percentage of their budget on energy costs. gas prices are coming up to $4 per gallon again and the national energy assistance directors association warned that home heating costs could be the highest in 10 years. particularly if you're no the northeast and using home heating oil, those prices are up 74% compared to two years ago this is all economic pain and all of that means less money available for food, for health care, for other goods that americans really need. elizabeth: you know, to nick's point, by the way, let's back up. for a year now, it has been a year now the white house has been misleading and gaslights on inflation. watch this. >> increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory president

inflation rate month to month is up just an inch. elizabeth: up an inch. up like 900 yards. look at polls from cnn, "politico," economist. democrats can now lose the senate. independent voters in swing states are turning against the white house. harvard has a poll out survey analysis showing to nick's house it is slamming minorities the poor and middle class. as carol roth says the federal reserve, they can't print more oil, they can't print more food, they can't print more commodities or labor. inflation is a big problem but now they have the capitol riot hearings today. what do you think of going on? >> this is a massive distraction. they're so hoping this election is referendum on donald trump instead after referendum on joe biden. look, liz, the biggest issue in inflation is energy. nick just said home heating oil and natural gas are up 60, 70% year-over-year. wait until people see what it will cost to heat their homes.

but biden will not encourage drilling in america. this is unconscionable. honestly i think it is the dumbest political move i ever seen in my life. this is what his approval ratings are tied to. when gasoline prices went down for 98 days his approval ratings went up. gasoline prices, joe biden's approval ratings will go down, it will hurt him big time in november. elizabeth: watch abc's george stephanopoulos, and watch aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez, she got shouted down by a voter, watch this. >> saying there will be all this new secret service evidence comes out but i guess my big question is what else do we need to know? he lost the election. he lied about it. he stoked up a crowd of armed militants. they stormed the capital while he watched on tv. shouldn't that be case closed? >> congresswoman, none of this matters unless there is a nuclear war which you voted to send arms and weapons to ukraine tulsi gabbard she left the

democratic party because there are war hawks. okay? you originally voted, you ran as an outsider. yet you've been voting to start this war in ukraine. you're voting to start thermonuclear war with russia and china. why are you playing with the lives of american citizens. elizabeth: voters are outraged. you can feel it, nick. i mean they're not, so they're talking about the capitol riots but not the origins of the covid pandemic. not pandemic fraud where government workers and homeland security and irs are stealing pandemic relief money so that is what is going on, nick. >> they're not talking about energy affordability and energy security which americans desperately want and need. again on day one, it was anti-energy policies. look at the cancellation of the keystone xl pipeline which could have brought up to 830,000 bears of oil a day down to gulf refineries. instead we're relying on venezuela, saudi arabia, opec

plus production cut. this is not a good from economic standpoint. not good from emissions standpoint relying more on venezuelan production than american production and certainly not a good from a price standpoint as americans pay more at the point. not a economic sense or environmental sense. elizabeth: they're not going to texas or alaska for oil. you're going to other dictators. liz, nick, final word on this, saudi arabia confirms that the president and the white house did pressure opec to delay cuts in oil output until after the midterms so gas would not go up. was this to keep democrats in power? i will ask you both about that, white house saying we asked for the delay until opec meets again which is after the midterms. what do you think, liz? >> without a doubt. liz, they asked for a one-month delay, was that to for americans help americans to pay for fuel this winter? no. it was to help democrats. as i said earlier it is tracking totally with energy prices, gasoline prices, file oil

prices. that is what democrats are worried aout. this is already hurting them. this was a huge embarassment. elizabeth: what do you think, nick? >> i think that is exactly right. liz hit the nail on the head and president biden needs a change in posture and policy to open up domestic production here, get permitting reform back on the table so we can allow access to all of the above energy policy to build the necessary infrastructure, get supplies online to lower cost. elizabeth: nick, this is not a good look to be asking to delay the oil production cut until after the midterms, nick. >> not at all. it is politics at its worst. it is really the american people who are suffering from these decisions and again the more supply we can get online faster that is what the president should be encouraging us to do. elizabeth: got it. liz peek, nick loris, thanks for spending time with us tonight. good to see you both. we'll get you updated on what is going on with the trial with special counsel durham slamming the fbi for using unverified anti-trump information from

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>> back with us, "newsweek" deputy opinion editor. batya ungarr-sargon. great writer. you have to read her columns. great to have you on. president biden was in california today. he is talking about infrastructure spending things like that. will that blank out for voters there, rising crime and rising gas prices in california? are they going to listen to infrastructure spending? where do you come down on this? >> so, thank you so much for having me. liz, i totally agree with what you were saying earlier. this is one of those issues that looks like it is sort of left versus right when actually it is about overeducated progressive elites waging war on the middle class. you have runaway inflation, interest rates for new homes at 7%, so you can't buy a home. you have an open border, so you

have a new stream of working-class people entering the country. so you can get a good job. you have climate extremism, so you can't have a car. these are the hallmarks of a middle class life. to top it all off, crime, they will not talk about crime. when they do, they side with the criminals over their victims. it is absolutely appalling. elizabeth: so to your point crime is driving inflation. look at this in high crime cities, rent is going up in cities hit by rising crime. people are leaving many of those cities. that is what is going on there. we're showing you the rent increase by city hit by crime. so there is that. to your point, we like your reaction to ohio democrat tim ryan. he is in a tight race with jd vance. we have new video surfacing, back in 2019 he said get rid of bail everywhere. watch this. >> increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation.

>> transitory,. >> transitory,. >> transitory. >> transitory. president biden: inflation rate month to month is just up an inch. elizabeth: sorry. ran the wrong sound. we'll get it to in a second. a dozen cops already shot this week, two officers killed, a third seriously wounded. answering a 911 call in bristol connecticut. your take what is going on with police officers to your point? >> you know i talk to cops all the time and they tell me you want to know why crime is going up? defund the police. we don't want to be the next person who is caught on a video and goes viral. you know we're not protecting the protectors. so they can't go out there and do their jobs. and when they do they get shot because the progressive elites have sided with criminals against their victims and against the people who go out there in the most dangerous job to protect them. it is so awful. elizabeth: you know, to your point the man who terrorized a new york city mcdonald's with an axe, he was released without

bail in september. he was rearrested again for alleged vandalism. then he was released the next day without bail. there were three fatal stabbings within 10 days on the new york city transit system. there is a lot of stuff going on. >> yeah and the major, the biggest group of people who are impacted by this rise in crime are people of color, members of the black community where moving guess serves claim to care about, abandon them to let criminals who live in their midst ignore them. if the republicans are not able to seize this opportunity, they need soul-searching there is a chance to represent people that democrats long abandoned. elizabeth: we have the sound from tim ryan. to your point crime hitting midterms. democrats are running away from statements about defund police and getting rid of cash bail.

>> states by cash bail, state by state, you support that nationally? >> yeah. the bail system is inherently unfair and, what it does, it sets people down a spiral of, not being able to go to work. not being able to take care of the kids. then you have adverse childhood experiences. all of a sudden a parent is not at home. elizabeth: your reaction. minority communities are getting hit hard with crime. black, hispanic voters out there, their families are being victimized by crime. reaction to what tim ryan said about getting rid of cash bail everywhere? >> i have to say i don't understand why we have a cash bail system. every judge should look at every single defendant to decide if they are a threat to community. if they are a threat to the community no bail whatsoever. they have to stay in trial. it if they are not a threat, should be released. not depending on what money you

have. if tim ryan was everyone should be releaseds dangerous people no matter how rich they are kept behind bars until trial, that is something conservatives to get behind. elizabeth: i think he met the former. >> yes. elizabeth: with no-cash bail, the often these judges are restricted from using their own, you know, sensibility and judgment in these cases. that is what is going on in places like illinois and new york. >> absolutely. entire progressive system is weighted in favor of criminals right now. it is absolutely appalling. this is something that republicans can really run with. elizabeth: batya, terrific writer. good to have you on good to see you. we have this story, "the wall street journal" revealing thousands of top government officials caught trading stocks in the same companies they enforce. and, the update on special counsel john durham slamming the fbi in court for using unverified anti-trump information from christopher steele to get spy warrants to

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not know before. the first person on the stand today, a man names charles dolan a democratic operative, public relations operative who has decades of experience in the democratic party, he was on the stand. he served as a source for igor danchenko who was on trial right now for lying to the fbi, charged with five counts of lying to the fbi. dolan admitted on the stand gossip about donald trump that he emailed danchenko was nothing more than talking points he saw on television news. that gossip actually made it into that steele dossier we've been talking about more than five years to get the fisa warrant against trump aide carter page. that he came from a trump official, not charles dolan. igor danchenko charged with lying about the work with ex-british spy, christopher steele. that steele dossier full of allegations about donald trump leading up to the 2016 election. the first witness took some of

tuesday, all of yesterday, fbi intelligence analyst, brian auten. he is a government witness, john durham the special counsel turned on him in this specific trial, to take the fbi to task liz, on larger scale, to uncover props there. auten was involved looking into potential connection in the trump team and control lynn. it was dubbed "crossfire hurricane." it turned out to be nothing. durham asked auten you didn't corroboration from fbi databases intelligence agencies or christopher h per steele around it went into a fisa application? correct said brian auten. within the last 30 minutes, liz, if i could have a few more seconds, an fbi agent that worked with danchenko, he was danchenko's handler, he defended danchenko contributed to more than 25 investigations in the fbi. that danchenko was an important part of the overall fbi frame.

not sure how long john durham plans to take the trial but every day we're learning something new, liz. elizabeth: great reporting. thank you for joining us tonight. joining us former congressional investigator sam dewey. sam, what is your take on this? charles dolan, he was a bill and hillary clinton top aide he has been with them for years, was even surprised his anti-trump information ended up in the anti-trump steele dossier used to get fisa wiretaps to spy on the trump team, what do you make of all this? >> overarching first point i make when the fbi gets information from a confidential human source like danchenko, they do, should do what any investigator does, you vet the information. you look for leads in other case files, you look for documents that corroborate, you look for other people saying similar things. you assess the motives of the individual coming in. and, the completely, not even flimsy, just transparent nature

of the steele dossier makes clear that on the point you just raised and others, none of that, 101 investigation when you're dealing with a confidential human source, was done. and that goes to point two, which is why. brian auten and others are extraordinarily experienced agents. we have to ask why did this happen? elizabeth: yeah. i mean there was anti-trump bias, you know, peter strzok and lisa page text messages there is just, this is just tip of the iceberg stuff you know what i mean, sam? they didn't verify with fbi databases or other intelligence community databases or agencies. it all went into a fisa wiretap to spy on the trump team? hillary clinton campaign and dnc financed, funded directly that steele dossier. all that and the mueller probe did not find trump colluded with russia to hack into hillary campaign emails? the fbi went full on, katie bar

the door with this, they knew what was going on, that it came from the clinton team? >> i mean it is extraordinary. it is again to your point, you know it seems very likely that this is an exercise in endings dream bias against president trump and that's why all of the normal vetting wasn't done. all the agents experience seems to have been thrown out of the window and you not only get reliance on opening an investigation on this, they took it a step further and took it to a judge unoath which is just insane. elizabeth: so, let's back up. we have sources in the fbi. they have told us that james comey was beating a path to the obama white house constantly and that they felt that this trump-russia probe should have been handled by new york citi field offices. you know the shoe leather guys that go out to find the crime, not the politicized d.c. headquarters. when you do a fisa wiretap, it

is not a one hop, two hops, even three hops. talking on the phone who you are talking to and who that person talking to is getting collected by the fbi and who else with other intelligence officials. it was a full-on dragnet into the trump team. we don't even know half of what has gone on, sam, you know what i mean? >> i dough. ii do. i think very interesting stuff to watch and other stuff comes out. another point which is contra posed what we have here. we have full-on aggressive fbi investigation without any vetting of the source on the most flimsy of cases. we know, from tony bobulinski and others who have spoken publicly information that could be verified against documents, laptops and other was brought to the same people on hunter biden. why nothing there? elizabeth: sam due way, we'll have you back on, thank you for your insights. sam dewey a former federal investigator for the u.s.

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elizabeth: look who is here, "wall street journal" investigator reporter brodie mullins and john west. you did a terrific job. thanks so much for joining us tonight, the investigative reporting you did about thousands of top government officials trading stock, doing options trading, even short

selling in the companies they regulate and enforce. brodie, first to you, what surprised you when you guys dug deep into the story. what hit you hard about this story? >> really what didn't surprise us. amazing how much stock trading we found. we looked at 50 different federal agencies. we looked at thousands and thousands of federal employees and stock trading reports over five years. we found tons of people, thousands of people, trading stocks in companies that oversaw in their jobs. elizabeth: what do you say, john, what brodie is saying, one out of four top ftc officials own and trade stocks in the same tech giants that they regulate? >> that's right. actually it goes a little deeper than that, you look at the ftc, for example, one in three actually were trading or owning stocks that of in companies that had business before bevacqua the ftc whether a merger or case. it is stunning.

to echo something brodie said, financial filings, 31,000 financials filings from 30,000 senior government employees, we found one in five people were trading stocks in companies that were actively lobbying their agencies. elizabeth: while those same companies, john, said, while they're lobbying for lucrative government contracts or favorable regulation, i mean your deep dive, you guys did sterling work here. how is this possible they're allowed to be doing trading or short selling or even options trading? >> well that is a great question. congress created several decades ago very, strong rules said you're not allowed to own stock in companies that you regulate but those rules unfortunately have tons of loopholes, exemptions, one of them government only considers a conflict if you own more than $15,000 of a company. if you own $14,000 in apple, for example, you're allowed to write laws or deal with policy regarding apple. there is plenty of other

exemptions. so almost all the examples we found, there were thousands of people, the vast majority mr. in compliance with the law. elizabeth: so what brodie is saying. brings up lucrative stocks trades by he will nancy pelosi's husband. blocking the bipartisan bill to stop trading in congress. what it feels like, "the boston globe," movie, spotlight, they did shoe leather journalism, dove into the documents to find out what is going on. that is the sterling work you guys did this is investigative journalism. homeland security workers and the irs stealing millions of dollars in pandemic relief money. when you sat back, john, what senior officials, top agencies, what agencies are you talking about? >> we looked at 50 total agencies over a six-year time span. those agencies including the ftc as we talked about before,

included d.o.t., department of transportation, included justice, virtually, not virtually every majorrage sy but a lot of major agencies. we didn't receive at time publication dhs that were not included in the analysis as we point out in the story. we got filings from 50 federal agencies. i will say to your point about "spotlight." there was a whole team at the journal we were doing a lot of work to scrub through 31,000 documents. a million in assets. we used computer software to help us. that was an important part of this project, we had to manually spot-check and verify all the data coming through. elizabeth: it is really, i'm not kidding heroic stuff. "spotlight" was the movie about the catholic church sex abuse scandals. brodie, what concerns do you have you found? >> top line numbers at environmental protection agency. people owning oil and gas stocks and exxon and the food and drug

administration people owning food and drug stocks. at the department of defense someone was buying defense contractors before the defense department was giving them a big contract. the list went on and on. elizabeth: what do you say, john, what do you find most concerning and disturbing. >> everything brodie said is absolutely correct. i would add the broad sweep of the thing, one in five, senior government employees holding stock, trading stock in companies they oversee. elizabeth: how high up the employees in the food chain? >> everything from the ses service, select career staff all the way up to people who are political appointees as bell as you know, people who file reports with the office of governmental assets. elizabeth: wait a minute, talking about people in the offices of the secretary of different agencies or running the agencies doing this? >> sorry. senior career government employees as well as presidential employees to these agencies. elizabeth: all right. go ahead, finish your thought. >> we're looking at 12,000 of the most senior people in the

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♪. elizabeth: okay, that new white hot inflation report today shows exactly why biden and the democrats are losing the working

class, they're losing the poor voter, they're losing the middle class voter. why? home heating costs now up nearly 60% of the government warning watch out for this winter, it will cost even more to heat your hopes. kelly o'grady in los angeles with more. kelly? reporter: great to see you, liz. i mean the winter is already a tight time for families with the holidays and now americans are facing the highest heating bills in 10 years. you can expect to spend up to 28% more than last year to heat your home. that is in large part due to soaring natural gas prices with war in ukraine. how much you pay in total can vary. natural gas $930, electricity, over 1300. if you heat your home with oil, you're looking over $2300. only 10% of americans use oil to heat their homes but none of those figures i mentioned are cheap. with opec plus cutting production even further, the concern becomes how americans will make ends meet when the

administration refuses to produce more domestically. we're seeing consequences of these pressures play out. a new lending tree study shows 32% of americans paid a bill late in the last six months. over half indicate it was a utility bill. that equates to 20 million americans falling behind on their energy bills, the worst ever documented. you factor in the bills are only going to keep rising. it will be tougher to make those payments. back to you, liz. elizabeth: kelly o'grady great reporting as always. joining us congressman dan meuser from house small business. we've been covering the stover, congressman, thanks for joining us. how can california think it's a good idea to go all electric when electric cars and charging stations we're finding, charging stations spontaneously combusting into uncontrollable fires so hot even the roads are melting under these fires in states like pennsylvania? but they have got wildfires sparked by downed transmission lines. they think this is a good idea, they're not telling their voters

about this? >> well, really incredit ann, liz. great to be with you as well. to hide this information or ignore it and literally keep people in the dark which in the end they will be, look these folks, gavin newsom and so many of them the woke crowd, they need to face reality and check ideology at the door. evs are fine for some. let's face it the average cost is $55,000. they go 250 miles on a charge. there are issues charging it at charging stations. here we have a government spending, federal government spending $240 billion on electric vehicle tax credits as well as charging stations. how many of those charging stations do you think the government will put in the right place without the blood, sweat, critical thinking of -- elizabeth: listen, they can spontaneously explode. it is so hard to put the fires out. federal safety regulators, this

went under the radar, last april they opened a probe into electric car batteries after five carmakers, gm, mercedes, hyundai, volkswagen and solantis did billions of dollars in recalls since 2020 because of manufacturing defects in the batteries that can increase the risks of fires. show a video, electric car exploded at a charging station in china. 40 firefighters needed to put that out, congressman. outside sacramento, california, a tesla out of the blue suddenly burst into flames. they literally had to bury it under dirt because the battery kept reigniting. >> 10 fires from corroded batteries in waterlogged batteries in collier county, it was so hot it melted the pavement. it took thrymsa as much water, three times longer to get used. i live in pennsylvania. what did you think happen with

the evs a snowstorm, big traffic jams, people are stuck on the roads two or three hours. evs have a time and a place but once again the left is putting their ideology over reality and mandating such requirements and such deadlines, it will fail. just as liberalism it fails, it fails. elizabeth: listen to the firemen, the fire guys on this. watch this. >> it just ties up resource as lot longer. in some cases where we don't have a water source we have to secure the area and let them burn, because we can't get enough water to them. >> the best practice to isolate the vehicle to let it burn. it is also the cleanest burning in that application. when we throw water on them and mess with that burning process, the vehicles can off gas toxic, highly flammable enclosed areas like parking garageses can become explosive. elizabeth: did you hear that toxic nimbus clouds thrown off?

final word. why is it, governor newsom, why isn't biden, why isn't the green energy talking about any of this, the dangers of this? this is doing more harm to the environment than good. >> so true, how are these batteries being charged of course? by oil, natural gas and other sources of fossil fuels. you know when you have a heavy-handed government as opposed to free market it doesn't work. it didn't work in the soviet union, venezuela cuba. certainly not going to work here. elizabeth: congressman meuser thanks for joining us. new reports coming in hunter biden's chinese business partner had links to chinese liberation army potential psyops units? wow. is congressman greg stuebe next on "evening edit" indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire ♪

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elizabeth: look who is back with us congressman greg stuebe. you are from state of sorry, we're so for with hurricane ian and your t home state . what is your take, saudi arabia confirming that president and white house did pressure opec to delay cuts in oil output. what do you make of this.

>> the white house using their own election interference to try to control the price of gas at the pump, they know that is a huge issue for them, they wouldn't have to talk with saudi arabia at all if we didn't have a war on our own production of energy and fuel, but day one biden did away with the keystone pipeline and war on our own domestic production of oil and gas, if you open that back up with the stroi stroke of a pen we would be able to produce our own energy, right before biden took office, we were energy-independent under president trump. we could be that again and we wouldn't have to beg the other countries to m pump more oil and gas. elizabeth: washington times reporting based on hunter biden laptop his chinese business partner, he worked

for a unit of people's l liberation army in communist china, involved in covert operations against the u.s. he was reportedly on bribery charges since 2018. two studies of chinese influence operations identified him as part of a special information warfare unit called bai base well -- 11. >> another proof and evidence that hunter biden and his foreign dealings, and joe biden had to have been involved in this, violated federal law. it will not be until the republicans take the majority back and have s subpoena is investigator power, we have a doj that does not want to investigate hunter biden and more of those on january 6 and other types of conservatives, not hunter biden, which billions

of dollars, millions, he was corrupted from the other dealings he was doing while his dad was vice president and who knows if it is going on now. elizabeth: reports are this unit his partner was engaged in, the three warfares public opinion, psychological and legal warfare. that was hunter's business partner, let's watch representative james comey. >> if he gets indicted for tax evasion and lying on a gun purchase, that is nothing compared to what he will get in trouble for. they are dealing with money laundering with influence peddling and dealing with being an unregistered foreign agent for our adversaries across the globe in 4 different country we'll try to get banks to come forward with bank records.

we'll use soup openna power if we have to. we have e-mails, text-messages and voice messages. >> final word. >> this is why so purpose that we take house back, i couldn't agree more. elizabeth: congressman stuebe thank you for the quick wrap. we'll have you back on, i am elizabeth macdonald, join us again tomorrow night . kennedy: they, thursday, must be a day ending in lettery, the biden economy is making inpl inflation worse, if prices keep going up you will need to get a loan to buy