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three tossup races left in the senate. they're in play and the gop is poised to take house. president biden speaking out for the first time after the midterms as the nation is still suffering from its worst inflation in 40 years. record gas prices, record crime since 1980s. and open borders. we're breaking it all down including the senate. so far standing at 4seats for the democrats, 49 for the republicans. 51 needed for a majority. and now georgia, that close race. it is going to be a december runoff. we'll be discussing that as well. while the house is up for grabs. 218 seats needed for control there. i'm jackie deangelis in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now.

jackie: welcome, everybody. rett's look at the dow today, dropping 650 point. nasdaq and s&p 500 as well. the market digesting the results of the midterms thinking that gridlock in washington would have been a good thing. it may not have exactly what it needs here. the votes are being tallied across the nation. control of congress still hangs in the balance. president biden speaking last hour claiming that the united states has missed the red wave and democrats had a strong night. edward lawrence live at the white house for us with the latest. hi, edward. reporter: hey, jackie. the president answered questions formally for the first time in 11 months on u.s. soil. the president said he would take questions from 10 reporters. he got through seven before walking off. president biden believes this election voice was a choice by voters that his economic agenda works. listen. president biden: now in terms of the growth but i think we can have what most economists call a

soft landing. i'm convinced that we're going to be able to gradually bring down price so they in fact end up with us not having to move into recession to be able to get control of inflation. reporter: so again we've been hearing that message for more than a year. inflation still close to 40 year highs. core inflation still rising and that is what the federal reserve will be looking at, the core, when the next cpi inflation report comes out tomorrow. still the president says that now is the time to work together. president biden: look, i think the american public want us to move on and get things done for them. the former president said how many times you will impeach biden? impeachment proceedings against, i think, i think the american people will look all of that for what it is, it is just, almost comedy. reporter: this after the president biden spent the last few weeks talking about megamaga republicans. also saying that a vote for republicans in this past election was is a vote against

democracy. you know wants to work together. jackie: a lot of interesting comments in the speech. we'll break it down. edward lawrence four for that. for more on the national results, republican vice-chairman jodey arrington and pollster lee carter. good to see you both. congressman, start with you first. the thousand foot view based on results we have so far. we are waiting on two see senate races more information to come in. it wasn't necessarily the red tsunami but it wasn't that bad either? >> no. it was a red wave in pockets of the country and i think your viewers are familiar with those. where we were competing in marginally democrat districts we won them. we all wish we would have done better. i don't think a republican out there would say differently but you know this is the first time we've won back the house, republicans anyway, control of

the u.s. house since 1954. we've got the power of the purse now. it's a 50% plus one proposition for the majority in the house and if you've got that, then you control the agenda. you can provide oversight as a check against an activist and overreaching administration, a lawless administration, possibly one that weaponizes institutions of democracy. so there is a lot of positive things at the end of the day. we're going to be in the majority. we flipped a dozen seats so far in places like oregon, and new england and throughout the country. so it is going to be a positive night. expectations were high. the polls were way off but republicans are going to have the majority, jackie. jackie: lee, some of those key races were very, very close. of course we looked at florida, the governor's race there. it was a landslide for desantis but the rest of the races were weren't. what that says to me the nation

is still very polarized. when we went into this, inflation and crime are polling as issues that are ton of mind for voters. i think those are really important issues still but having said that, did the republicans underestimate the folks looking at abortion with their top issue, the notion of the death of democracy, climate change? it seemed those people turned out? >> there is no question about it there, was some underestimating of the turn out on the democrats. 27% of voters said abortion weighed heavily into their decision. i think many republicans were not expecting that to be the case. the other thing though we did have a lot of voters in the studio last night for election night. we were talking to them why they felt the way they did. many of them, everyone in the room, inflation was a top concern. about half of them felt it was a global issue nobody could do anything about here in the u.s. many of them felt like the republicans didn't make a case

what they were going to do about it. they talked about how bad it was. they didn't say what they would do to address it. there was conversation on crime. a conversation how bad it was. people were not sure what republicans would do about it. about a month ago there was a commitment to america which was announced. i think we saw some momentum shift. we thought that would get picked up. i think it was a little bit too late. the momentum didn't shift too much. there was underestimate of enthusiasm around women's reproductive issues. jackie: those are great points. lee you did a fantastic job last night. i was watching. congressman, one of points lee made, inflation being a global problem, not necessarily one created here. another school of thought we definitely didn't make anything better when we spent $4 trillion in roughly 18 months. you talk about the house, being able to block legislation from moving forward. is one of the things that the republicans will do, say no more spending. we're not approving anymore of these reckless bills? >> absolutely.

that is the first thing we should do. that we have control over, with the power of the purse. stop the spend. we have, this president who claims to reduce the deficits was the one who had a record of $3 trillion in deficits in 21. of course that is going to come down. now he is claiming he is reduced the deficit. the deficits in 2022 were higher than pre-covid. we're going to have over two trillion dollars in deficits, this on top of five trillion in deficit spending over the last two yeast by this president. yes, getting control of spending that has driven inflation, that is bankrupting the country. and robbing our children of their future in this country, should be the number one priority of this, of this new republican majority in the house. jackie: that's the thing. maybe there were voters were unclear about that because biden even today said we have reduced the deficit by $1.7 trillion. off of that pandemic peak.

people don't really understand exactly what that means. they don't understand how his spending contributed to the problem. he said reducing the deficit will reduce inflation but it will not do it in that way. sometimes these comments can be a little frustrating. speaking of that speech, lee, there was a lot to unpack but there was one particular sound bite, he talked about young voters. listen to it and react on the other side. president biden: i want to especially thing the young people in this nation who i'm told, haven't seen the numbers voted in historic numbers like they did two years ago. they addressed the climate crisis, gun violence, their personal rights and freedoms, student debt relief. jackie: pretty progressive issues for the young voters but the student debt relief caught my attention there. everybody said that was a last-ditch effort to try to buy some votes. it seemed that it worked. i'm wondering if the republicans can do something to appeal to the young voters without

recklessly forgiving debt? >> yeah. you know i would really like to dig into that to understand what it was because we did have about four college age voters who were in the room last night. none of them talked about student loan forgiveness. what they did talk about women's reproductive issues which were really, really important to them. they also talked about the importance of democracy and really being able to be who you were and i think, that sort of, spoke to them more than the debt forgiveness. now i really want to dig in and look at exit polling by that demographic. i'm not so sure that it was student loan at all as much as it was people got out to vote for women's reproductive issues especially younger votes. i talked to college many voted democrat because of the issue. jackie: wow. a lot to break down. possibly learning lessons as well. congressman, great to see you

tonight. lee carter, good to see you always. >> god bless. jackie: coming up, now that close georgia senate's is heading to a december runoff. plus democrat john fetterman's surprise outcome over dr. oz in pennsylvania. congressman dan meuser next on "the evening edit". ♪. what if “just an idea” could become a family tradition? this is financial security. and lincoln financial solutions will help you get there. as you plan, protect and retire.

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when they think about energy and rising energy costs and the jobs in pennsylvania that are supported, almost half a million jobs by energy and the wages paid, roughly $40 billion in their state? you know, do you think that they missed the boat here? all right. i think i lost my guest which is unfortunate to talk about it, but that was one of the big issues when it came to this senate race. we'll have to dig into this as lee carter was suggesting earlier, you know, what happened in these races to see what some of the lessons and takeaways are. obviously john fetterman's health was a big issue here. he suffered a stroke and refused to debate until that last debate before, right before the midterm elections. he did do one but he didn't do very effective job in convincing many voters. we had done some voter analysis and talked to people on the ground. independent voters who said, that he didn't convince them he was well enough to be able to do

the job. but of course you know, at the end of the day voters did come out and vote for him thinking that he knew enough about the state to be effective and some people said that you know, he just needed some time to be able to recover and that we should provide him that opportunity. having said that, abortion was a big issue across the country. something that wasn't necessarily anticipated to be higher on the priority list when you were ranking you know, crime, inflation, cost of living, housing. i believe we have congressman meuser back. i'm so sorry that i lost you. i was just sort of giving the overview of what happens in pennsylvania but real quickly, my question to you, you know, voters turned out on abortion. they turned out on the fact that they didn't think dr. oz new pennsylvania. my question is why weren't they thinking about some issues that hit close to home like energy? >> you are so right, jackie, you outlined it very well.

crime, of course, but energy is really the big one because fetterman had said many times he is against natural gas, against fracking. employs nearly 500,000 pennsylvanians. he will be fights us. we just elected a united states senator for pennsylvania that will be fighting people like myself and many other democrats accessing natural gas, building pipelines. natural gas is 50% of the carbon emissions of other fossil fuels. this should be the transitionary energy of course. fetterman was elected by the people of pennsylvania to go into the united states senate. he is going to fight us on it. we'll be very specific in our legislation to grow this important part of the industry. important part of our economy so as we can bring down inflation, bring down gasoline prices and i think fetterman will be on the wrong side of it. every democrat is. they have caused these problems. yet for some reason pennsylvania

ians decided to vote for john fetterman any way. the truth didn't come out well enough. jackie: it was interesting to me. the one debate that he did do, he said i don't, he said, a few things and then he eventually said i don't oppose fracking. but he has opposed it in the past. this is a huge issue because when we talk about inflation, and bringing costs down, not just in pennsylvania but across the country unless we address the problem that we have with energy production in this country and some of the roadblocks that the president and the administration have put up in the way of the industry we'll not get prices to come down. so you know, he said i'm not against fracking. we'll see. >> well you know wasn't telling the fracking truth if you well you know, he, that is how he got through this. it's a real shame because dr. oz is a very viable person and he would have represented us in a strong manner making the united states stronger, making

pennsylvania stronger through all the right methods, including lowering the cost of energy making us more energy independent and access and so forth. so you know, he will be left of bernie sanders and frankly it's a real shock for pennsylvania but we're going to persevere because we will have the house. hopefully we end up with the senate as well. and we bring energy independence back to the united states. i think we can do it. that is the plan. jackie: i want to branch out pennsylvania specifically. the prediction this would be a red tsunami. that something, congressman, i ever predict. i tell viewers, go to the polls. they have to make the their voices heard. it is not all over until the voices are counted. having said that republicans did well in a lot of states in key governor governor seats, georgia, texas, florida, ohio. didn't work out in new york.

arkansas, oklahoma. these were pretty big wins. even when it came to some of the house seats as well, in new york, for example where kathy hochul was elected, we're able to, the republicans were able to flip seats within the house. that says a lot as well. so people walking away from this saying that you know, it was a rough night, it was a rough night but i don't think that anybody should have thought it wouldn't be. these are, these are you know important races and important issues in the country and the two sides were duking them out but, the outcome wasn't necessarily so bad. >> no. look, two years ago we picked up 17 seats, meaning the republicans in the house. this election we're likely to pick up 16 which will in the end give us the majority by five or six or seven, which is what the democrats have now. five we're pleased with that.

kevin mccarthy will be the speaker and nancy pelosi will give up the gavel. we're pleased with that. >> any thoughts on the two senate races in play. georgia is going to a runoff. we're waiting for arizona. we're waiting for nevada. your thoughts how this will play out? there were issues on election day in arizona, maricopa county. your thoughts on how this progresses throughout the rest of the week? >> it looks like laxalt in nevada has got it. i can't see how that goes bad. and in masters in arizona is down by 65,000 votes. so he is going to need a lot of help and out of what's continued to be counted. he will need the vast majority of those. but, with laxalt's win and then the runoff georgia, we get the majority. jackie: yeah, but do you worry we come back exactly where we were in 2020? we all remember having that split, having the runoff and the

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this is interesting. early on warnock had the lead. walker was able to catch up. there are issues how the votes are counted, in person, mail in, whatever. having said that we did fox news voter analysis. two things are interesting as we head into the runoff. a lot of money, time, effort will be spent on this race. first issue on voter analysis, herschel walker supports trump. 45% of people said too much. 44% said the right amount. 11% said too little. i'm wondering what you think of this? we talked about biden's ties to some key states and races here. he kind of stayed away from them. trump did help some people get elected last night but others are saying it turned them off. what do you think? >> well i think donald trump has the effect of turning out his voters when he engages, tries to activate them. interesting to me the 11% said not enough. you wonder what they did when

they got into the voting booth? my guess they voted for herschel walker. but no question turning out donald trump voters in the runoff will be absolutely essential for herschel walker to win. candidly how they lost both runoff races last year, hard to believe it was two years ago, they were not able to get the vote out again in the runoff that will be the key aspect of the next month between now and december 6, is republicans not trying to get out trump voters again but as you mentioned, governor kemp won going away, 2.1 million votes. he won 53-45. all they need to do get out a large coalition of the kemp voters. he said today he is going to engage and really get involved trying to make sure herschel walker gets across the finish line. brian kemp will have much bigger impact on the outcome of this than anybody outside of herschel walker. jackie: that is a great point. move on to this one, voter

analysis question. who do you think has the right experience? when it came to warnock, 57% of the people think he is the person who does, only 40% says walker does. what do you make of that? does this come down to the fact that warnock is established in the state, people feel more comfortable and a little bit afraid to make a change? >> you know it's a great question and one of the things we deal with as campaign pollsters, particularly when you're running against a incumbent. you figure out why it is a voter would fire, what you're asking them to do fire the person currently who has the job, hire someone new. what that says to me herschel walker has a little bit of time to make a point there. kind of funny the i was talking to a journalist yesterday. walker is a strange. i responded have you ever met a heisman trophy winner who is not? when you excel at a level he did

takes most discipline most of us don't have. it is probably a little bit strange. challenging for herschel walker, heisman trophy winner, star at university of georgia to relate to the average voter, rafael warnock deal with them all the time as a pastor currently has the job. that is the challenge herschel has. jackie: funny you say that. i say that about successful ceos. when you talk to them, so brainy, so successful, so disciplined sometimes they come off as not leslie a regular person. i understand what you're saying here. last point that i want to make, we've got a sound bite. warnock spoke. walker spoke. let's listen. >> so y'all just hang in there. i'm feeling good. [cheers and applause] we always knew that this race would be close. >> i'm like ricky bobby. i don't come to lose.

now, and i told you he will be tough to beat. he is going to be tough to beat but let me tell you what, he got the wrong georgia here, don't he? jackie: quick reaction? >> one point race. they both called it pretty much exactly right. we'll go to another month. looking turn out, university of georgiaer gearing up for a bowl game at that time i have to put my money on herschel walker. jackie: thank you, chris wilson. >> thank you. jackie: how to get in front of tomorrow's cpi inflation report as mortgage rates skyrocket to record levels. congressman jason smith is here next on "the evening edit." >> right now only 16% of buyers think it's a good time to buy. >> yeah. >> that is probably the worst level since 2011. a lot of wealth of americans are

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♪. jackie: welcome back. meta laying off a significant number of workers today. ceo mark zuckerberg saying he expected the company to grow faster than it actually did. susan li in new york with more for us. susan. reporter: meta, formerly known as facebook one of the best performing stocks on wall street today, mark zuckerberg announcing the first layoffs in the company's 18 year history, cutting 13% of the workforce and most recruiting, business teams area. hiring freeze extended until at least first quarter of next year. zuckerberg sounding conciliatory in a companywide emmail. i made the decision to significantly increase our investments. unfortunately this has not played out the way i expected. the macroeconomic downturn increased competition and adds signal loss caused our revenue to be much lower than i

expected. i got this wrong. and i take responsibility for that. remember that mark zuckerberg has super voting rights in meta. he can really be fired or kicked out of the company that he founded. despite a 70% drop in the stock this year, a 15 billion-dollar plus spend on the metaverse in 2022 which is still not profitable but in a world of higher rates, slowing growth, falling stock markets, cash is king. that means job cuts are needed to preserve the balance sheet. back to you. jackie: susan li, thank you. welcome to the show house budget ranking member jason smith. it is great to see you, sir. one of the big issues for voters was inflation. it wasn't, it didn't end up being the top issue in certain races right? we did learn that but people are still suffering and tomorrow's consumer price index is supposed to indicate year-over-year we dropped slightly 7.9% is the indication, down from.2%. having said that is far too high for many americans to feel

comfortable. do you think this administration is going to pivot with respect to its policy at all to try to address those concerns? because i listened to the president before and i didn't really see anything in there that convinced me. >> well they're going to have to. since the house has now flipped or will be flipping in january with the republicans take over, the republicans priority is to make our economy stronger. that was a priority of the house of representatives. that is it going to continue to be our priority. folks have seen inflation rise 13.9% since joe biden's has taken the oath of office. you've seen one party democrat rule in washington. in fact i, i was talking to some folks the other day. inflation has rose by 500% since joe biden has taken the oath of office. when jimmy carter was in office over 40 years ago, inflation only rose at a pace of 200%. that tells you that we are worse off today than we were during the jimmy carter days. jackie: that is why i was

surprised by some of the out comes last night because people are suffering. their food costs they complain are the worst, the highest, thing that impacts them the most. next would be gas prices. after that would be housing. these are you know, everyday issues that people have to struggle with. hard hard-working americans are out there taking on a second or third job to make ends meet. are you surprised that voters didn't put the economy first in a more aggressive way? >> you know, politics and elections are always local. it is local based on from state to state. you saw what happened in florida, what happened in new york. i mean republicans picked up numerous seat in the state of new york. we picked up four in the state of florida. everything is regional. i will tell you right now, working class americans are struggling to put food on their table, clothes on their backs, gasoline in their cars. it's a priority. it's a priority to numerous

voters. so what happened, what happened yesterday has only happened four times in the last 75 years and that is the house switching from democrat to republican control. it was a big night and the people of the united states spoke loud and clear. they wanted to retire nancy pelosi and they did just that. jackie: as we were saying earlier, on another, with a different guest you know the issue really becomes about being able to block legislation and as long as one chamber can do that, this administration is going to have a very tough time getting anything done? >> well, jackie it is not just about blocking legislation. it is about making sure that this reckless spending stops. just in the first 21 months of one-party democrat rule in washington they have added more than $10 trillion of spending. that's more than the first 196 years of all spending for our country. that will be stopped now since

the republicans take control of the house of representatives. jackie: there are a lot of people out there say, hey, that's a big win. >> huge win and it will be good for the people trying to afford food on the table, clothes on their backs, gasoline in their cars. jackie: we opened the segment talking about layoffs coming at meta but other technology companies. you've been hearing it trickle in. the expectation fed will continue to raise rates because inflation is not coming down fast enough. we'll head into recession. mortgage rates are high. how do you think 2023 will shape out for most americans? how do you think they will be feeling? >> you know i'm really concerned. americans are struggling. they have seen interest rates increase six times since march. just to make a payment on a mortgage is almost doubled under this administration. everything is harder for them to bear. and so it is going to be tough but hopefully republicans are on the way to help make a

difference. jackie: congressman, great to see you. jason smith, good to see you tonight. >> good to see you, jackie. jackie: the road ahead for house majority leader kevin mccarthy and nancy pelosi. what is next for governor ron desantis after his huge win in florida? the heritage's jessica andersen is next on "the evening edit." >> florida was a refuge of sanity when america went mad. we stood for people across the country and indeed across the world. cheer. this is financial security. and lincoln financial solutions will help you get there. as you plan, protect and retire. ♪ your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description.

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♪. jackie: welcome back. let's get right to it. it was a big night in florida. we want to break it down. joining us now heritage action for america executive director jessica anderson. jessica, good to see you. ron desantis literally crushing his competition and i was really worried about going into this,

not worried about it, i thought he would win but we've seen in the last two years because of the pandemic so many people go to florida from blue states. i was afraid they would take the blue votes with us to give us more of a purplish outcome. that wasn't the case there. people went down there. they saw how he ran the state during the pandemic. they liked it. they voted that way. it sent a clear message that was results oriented and action oriented. what do you think? >> my sense is very similar and we actually joked about that governor desantis would need to put billboards up at the ii-4 corridor, leave your liberal values behind. you're entering the free state of florida. that message really worked. what governor desantis was able to do, tackling every single issue, woke, orlando whole disaster with disney, protecting kids, going after the teachers unions, keeping schools open, keeping businesses open, he

painted a vision what florida would look like under his leadership, the free state of florida he kept saying. because he tackled everything and he had clarity of vision. voters responded rewarded him with double-digit huge victory last night we can all be proud of. jackie: marco rubio did well as well. the whole state pretty much crushed it but let me ask you this. he made a speech. people were lauding him, praising him for some of the things he said when it came to being woke. obviously he has taken a stance on this. watch this. >> we reject woke ideology. [cheers and applause] we fight the woke in the legislature. we fight the woke in the schools. we fight the woke in the corporations. we will never ever, surrender to the woke mob. florida is where woke goes to die. jackie: a lot of new yorkers

went to florida as you said were not buying the wokeness here but you still have states that are quite blue and deep blue. here in new york governor kathy hochul winning the race and so, you know, new yorkers don't sort of, it is different people in the country don't necessarily respond to that messaging i'm trying to say. >> yeah. i think that's right but what governor desantis i think was able to do so effectively is he drew a line in the sand what it actually looked like to fight against woke media. to fight against woke corporations and the smear tactics that have come after him by the way. he was responding to the fights that he has been dragged into because of how he managed the state over the last four years. i think when you even look at some of the pockets in florida that moved from blue to red, we talked a lot in the last 24 hours about the historic turnout in miami-dade county. you have not had a republican win that county in 20 years, since jeb bush was governor.

that sort of response tells us his leadership was onto something. it is concise and voters respond to it. from all the new yorkers moved up from florida, i think they like to see the fight in governor desantis. jackie: i don't know if you saw the cover of the "new york post" that he is a future leader of this party. do you think he will make a run for it in 2024? >> i think he is a leader right now. he is not the future. leading the great state of florida right now. huge victories. senator marco rubio huge victory as well. they have a lot of attention on florida. a huge state legislative agenda ahead. you heard cries, from the campaign rally was crying two more years. gives you the sense floridians want him to make a run in 2024. we'll see what he says six months or so and decides. jackie: we'll watch closely. jessica anderson, good to see you tonight. >> thanks for having me.

jackie: house minority leader mccarthy face as big challenge if he becomes speaker of the house. what will his first move be if he wins? congressman james comer coming up next. >> so you say that you will support kevin mccarthy for speaker and you pledge not to run against him, you pledge to not run against him. >> yeah. i said it very clearly. i'm supporting kevin. i think kevin will win next week. we'll be talking about getting to work. ♪

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jackie: with balance of pour at large democrat and republicans in house will evaluate their leadership as they head to a new congress. fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram with more. >> republicans surged in florida and upstate new york, g.o.p. toppled a giant, democrat in charge of house election efforts, sean patrick maloney of morgan. new york. >> we bel believe november 8 will be a historical date. >> republicans are forging ahead. >> kevin mccarthy is angling for speaker, sta

scalise for majority leader. >> speaker is not member who collects most votes, mccarthy must win a majority of the entire 435 member house. democrat are expecting house speaker nancy pelosi to retire but they now believe that attack on her husband haemboldens pelosi to stay. republicans are stumped about why they performed so parly since president biden's approval rating are in the tank. jackie: chad thank you. >> joining us now. ranking member of house oversight reform committee congressman james comer. out of chad's report, mccarthy is this his time? >> i do think it is his

time, he worked hard. campaigned for over a year, raised record amounts of money that we needed in every one of those per purple districts, it's time and hopefully our conference will give him the opportunity to lead. jackie: what about nancy pelosi? she has been cagey about how she will play this. >> in an interview yesterday, that what happened to your husband could have bearing on whet whether you decide to run again. what about if democrats were in the minority would that affect your decision? >> i'm not predicating any action. democrat not winning. that is a conversation for another day. let's get out the vote. and again, with hope. jackie: what do you think? some people say if she leaves now that is a sign of weakness. >> well, my first vote will be to fire her as speaker of

the house, i hope she stays as minority leader, talk about discontents in congress. there will be more among democrat if nanc nancy pelosi stays, we have the young progressive, what i consider socialists in congress on democrat side, they want new leadership, they are tired of the same old recycled democrat leadership they have with hoyer and pelosi. if nancy pelosi stays the leadership team will stay. i think that is a good sign for republicans if nancy pelosi would stay as minority leader. jackie: real quick, pop priorities for g.o.p. border security energy costs and investigation to to biden family, and origins of covid anything to add. >> the investigations will

be a top priority for me. we also have to focus on trying to reduce inflation, we believe inflation was created because of the democrat spending spree. there has been so much money wasted. we want to play a leading role in house oversight committee, and identify problems but propose solutions and we have to have reduce spending to reduce inflation. hopefully we can do that day one. jackie: stopping the spending would be a good place it start. congressman james comer thank you. >> thank you. jackie: all right, i'm jackie deangelis, in for elizabeth macdonald, you are watching the evening e"evening edit" on fox news, have a wonderful evening. kennedy: t