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role in twitter's censoring the hunter biden laptop story, and elon musk is saying potentially was trying to block release of even more twitter files. this is the same former top fbi lawyer on the debunked trump russia probe. we'll dig into it. this controversy, did the fbi debrief congress about its weekly meetings with twitter and facebook on the censorship before the 2020 election? who in congress knew about this? with us tonight senator ron johnson, congressman greg stuebe, jeff van drew and nicole malliotakis, energy pro kathleen scama and andy puzder, for the o'connell. we have these stories. u.s. energy is fighting back against biden's bad policies hurting u.s. economy. this, president biden made another new gaffe in arizona. he said quote, there are more important things than going to the border. this outrage, democrats getting irs to go after americans for

$600 transactions about their phone apps, doing nothing about the government losing track of $2.2 billion in pentagon spending, more than $250 billion in covid aid now stolen. the white house now fighting congress over getting rid of the military covid vaccine mandate. we have that hot debate. and this, the white house mistakenly told nine million americans their student loans were forgiven when they weren't. i'm elizabeth macdonald, and "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. we begin with your money. stocks ending down. this is the story happening now. ceos from jpmorgan chase, bank of america, walmart, gm, united airlines and union pacific, saying the downturn could get worse. the fed is expected hike interest rates above 5%. that will trigger a hard

landing. donald trump's company, the trump organization, convicted of tax fraud today in a case brought by the manhattan d.a. trump was not charged. it faces possibility of a $1.6 million fine. president biden in arizona at a chip plant. he is not going to georgia. the senate runoff race is happening between rafael warnock and herschel walker. polls closing less than an hour, whether democrats or gop will control the senate. fox business's connell mcshane live in norcross, georgia with more. connell, great to see you. >> reporter: great to see you as always, liz. republican herschel walker needed supporters to show up in person in a big way today if he want ad chance to beat rafael warnock. both sides would have told you that coming in. i would say at the location we are here in gwinnett county, the flow is relatively steady of voters throughout the day. that is the exact word secretary of state brad raffensperger said

when neil cavuto said steady flow of voters. whether that is enough for walker we don't know yet. the balance of power will not be dramatically impacted whoever wins in georgia. the democrats already clinched control. if warnock wins, 5-49, there would be more democrats and republicans on all senate committees. the walker, cobb county, warnock in gwinnett county making one last pitch. some voters said they were not really voting for one of these guys. more than anything they were voting against something they don't like. >> i think herschel walker is a puppet and he is not really going to be put in place to really put for the for forth thr communities and people of georgia. >> it is getting harder and harder to put food in my vehicle and food on the table. i attribute that all to democrats and biden.

>> reporter: all right. it is almost like a deep breath here, like we feel we've been running a race, we've almost made it. less than an hour to go and finally we should find out who the senator will be from the state of georgia for the next six years, liz. >> i think americans look forward to going back to the day you have an election in one day. connell mcshane, thanks so much. good to see you. great reporting. joining us from house transportation, he is congressman jeff van drew, the western energy alliance kathleen scam ma joining us. great to see you both. congressman, we have to deal with this first. congressman, listen to president biden's new blunder, gaffe in arizona. he is in arizona. not going to the border. he has not been there since the nixon era. he has been in d.c. since then. let's get your reaction. watch. >> why go to the border state not visit the border? president biden: more important thing going on, will invest billions of dollars to a new

enper prize. elizabeth: was it mr. call stunt when aoc and elizabeth warren went. >> it is unbelievable, the things that this man says, quite frankly he doesn't follow the rule of law. he doesn't care that the borders are open. he doesn't care that our country is literally bleeding. yet he still tries in some way to defend his lack of interest and his lack of focus and the very fact, regardless of how he feels about it, that he wouldn't go there. i have been there, almost every congress person has been there to investigate, to learn, to listen, to watch, to understand what is happening in the united states of america and the harm he is doing himself and his administration to our border states. unbelievable. elizabeth: he spent 40% of his term already in delaware, congressman. >> yeah. you know what? honestly i almost wish he would just spend the rest of his term in the basement in delaware and somebody new would come in,

certainly not the vice president because she possibly is the only person who could be worse than the actual president is in that position. elizabeth: let's get to go kathleen. kathleen, good to have you on. good to see you. your group and the petroleum association of wyoming is suing the white house over its energy policy. why? >> well, we sued on the failure to hold quarterly lease sales. the law is very clear. the administration needs to hold quarterly lease sales for non-wilderness public lands where we develop oil and natural gas here in the west. they have held one set of lease sales in two years and they're not planning to hold another lease sale until june and may of next year. elizabeth: so what do you think of this, congressman van drew? so the white house says leased out just 15% of public lands for drilling versus the prior administration. their policy has drained the strategic reserves to historic

record lows. truckers face diesel shortages and rely on communist dictators like venezuela and the mid-east for oil? >> you couldn't do a worst job if you wanted to. frankly he individually and his administration individually should be sued by every man, woman and child in the united states of america. so it is okay to use venezuela's dirty oil. it's okay to get oil and gas pro venezuela when the fact is they mistreat and hurt their people. that's okay. that makes no sense at all. why not use our clean gas, our clean fuel, our clean oil and the number one in the country again? we can be and we were number one in our energy portfolio. what he is doing to this country is shameful. elizabeth: kathleen, respond to what the congressman just said because you know the united nations, says, alleges, alleges that the communist maduro regime in venezuela has murdered and

killed 7,000 people there in extra judicial killings. he is going to human rights abusers around the world to pump more oil but not u.s. energy? >> well, we have a heck of a lot more democracy and better human rights in texas, new mexico and north dakota and wyoming that we do in venezuela that's for sure. the american producer out here in the west, all across the country is ready to increase production were it not for the overregulation, for the obstacles this administration puts in our path. elizabeth: to what cath thrown is saying, congressman, the news we broke, california governor gavin newsom is calling a special session of the california ledge you -- legisla. he want as new windfall profits tax on oil company profits. experts say this will get passed on to the consumers and drive up prices at pump. california's highest poverty

rate in the nation and highest energy prices in the nation too. >> he is a terrible governor and that is just a terrible idea. you know, i think what this administration and a lot of the people on that side of the aisle, their focus is to do as much harm as they possibly can to america. if i didn't know better and i'm not saying there is, but i can understand people who believe there is some type of a conspiracy to hurt america. everything they're doing is wrong. everything they're doing is harmful to our people, to our industries and our businesses. i'm tired of it. elizabeth: kathleen, respond to what the congressman just said. by the way has the white house responded to your lawsuit? >> no. i wouldn't expect them to respond but you know, we'll have our day in court on that. when you look at governors like newsom saying there needs to be a windfall profits tax, or price gouging, the federal trade commission has looked at price gouging and done 50 reports on that subject and each time they

found no price gouging. we as producers, we take the price that is globally set. elizabeth: yeah. >> that is based on global price of oil. we don't set the price of oil. elizabeth: you know, to your point, we got to go go, even president obama, former president obama's federal trade commission never found price gouging. there has never been a finding of price gouging from mom-and-pop gas stations for years. good to have you both on. good to see you both. happy holidays. merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you too. elizabeth: we have this new outrage, democrats deploying the irs to go after americans over just $600 transaction on phone maps like venmo or zelle? the pentagon lost track of $2.2 trillion and $250 billion in covid aid was stolen? where is the hair on fire moment on this? elon musk moments ago fired twitter lawyer james baker on

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sabotage any disclosure of the hunter biden laptop which they had in their possession december 19th, december 2019. so they had basically threatened to mr. mac isaac, paraphrase, people that don't talk generally don't get hurt, something to that effect. one of the reasons mr. mac isaac turned over his computer because senator grassley and i issued our report, he felt safe if two u.s. senators were looking at hunter biden he could probably release that computer. this should trouble every american, that the fbi was acting in such a partisan manner, making sure that they were laying the groundwork if mack isaac turned over the computer new was genuine, knew was authentic, they had plans laid to sabotage it labeling russian disinformation. elizabeth: senator, this is the same former fbi baker, who was james comey's deputy. he worked on the debunked

trump-russia probe. he worked on the michael flynn case. point man for the fbi at hillary clinton campaign putting the debunked trump russia alfa bank narrative in the fbi. tim thee boat accused of slow walking the fbi hunt hunt probe. did the fbi debrief you or congress or any of this or weekly meetings with twitter and facebook what it was telling them to sense sore before the 2020 election? did the fbi talk to you and congress about it? >> the fbi provided senator grassley myself an unsolicited briefing august 2020. we were never told who directed briefing. it was unnecessary briefing t was a setup. i knew it was. leaked in may of 2021 i was warned it being a russian target of disinformation. elizabeth: here is the question, did they tell you, senator, that they were talking to twitter and facebook about censoring information weekly?

>> no. they were setting me up the exact same way they set up twitter to be on the lookout so they could smear the story about hunter biden's laptop. elizabeth: did they, did they tell anybody in congress thatter they were meeting with facebook and twitter weekly censoring what they thought was misinformation, including hunter biden laptop? were they telling anybody in congress? they went rogue here? the fbi went rowing here? >> not to my knowledge they notified anybody in congress. they were spreading the story of the hunter biden laptop if it ever surfaced. understand the complicity there. understand the corruption. not just what they did with twitter, it was what they did all throughout 2020. elizabeth: we even have democrat ro khanna whiting a editorial in "the wall street journal" that twitter censorship is bad for democracy. seems like democrats and twitter only want free speech democrats agree with. he is the only democrat saying

that. that there is potential political bias here. that under twitter's logic they would have sense towards the pentagon papers or trump's tax return information. president biden routinely attacked the media and voters raising questions about hunter biden. watch this. >> you on the other hand sent your son over there to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no experience with gas or nothing. you're sell being access to the president doctor. president biden: you're a damn liar, true. if you want to, do push-ups together. do whatever you want to do. >> he, he, on, wednesday nights, you had a chance to give me a call. nothing urgent. just want to talk to you, i thought the article is released online. it will be printed in "the new york times" which is good. i made it clear.

anyway, if you give me a chance. i love it. elizabeth: so, senator, you see the biden bullying here. the biden bullying here. the biden team bullying. they bullied you guys. they bullied senator grassley. they bullied this voter here who raised questions about the biden family cashing in on biden's government job when "the new york times," "washington post," nbc, cbs, they all confirmed the information on the laptop even though took them nearly two years to do it? >> yes the fbi bay was involved. we know 51 members of the you know, the intelligence community were involved writing that letter to sabotage the story of the hunter biden. we know that democrats in congress were involved in undermining chuck grassley and my investigation. schumer, pelosi, schiff, warner, widen, peters, these are people who are undermining our legitimate investigation. they didn't want this information out. they, again this was happening all threw 2020. >> but this is about garden-variety corruption. about a government official cashing in on hills government

job, putting his son as a frontman in overseas deals. final word? >> again everybody was sabotaging the disclosure of hunter biden's corruption that would compromise a future president of the united states and so he got elected. we've seen polls said he would not have been elected if the story had been known if people had known this. there are a lot of people involved. it wait a minute just twitter. it was democrats in congress. it was the fbi. it was members of the of the intelligence community there is much larger story than twitter files. elizabeth: senator johnson, we'll stay on the story. have you back on again soon. thanks for joining us. >> merry christmas. elizabeth: now we have this story. the white house is fighting congress for trying to get rid of the military re's covid vax mandate. the debate why that mandate is unfair. new outrage democrats deploying the irs to go after americans just these little 600-dollar transactions on their phone apps. but the pentagon lost track of $2.2 trillion. at least $250 billion in covid

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♪. elizabeth: there is growing outrage over this story, democrats got the irs to go after americans for their transactions that are just as little as $600 on phone apps like paypal or venmo or s.e.a.l. for every day things like, your wedding registries or your tvs, even buying a couch. house gop lawmakers now sounding the alarm. can they do anything about this? hillary vaughn has the story on capitol hill. hillary? >> reporter: good evening, liz, technically these are not new taxes but ultimately you could pay more in taxes with these new reporting requirements. under the new rules the irs wants to know whenever you get more than 600 bucks in goods or services in payment app like zelle, paypal and venmo. you have to report it to the irs because of income. this is new rule in president biden's american rescue plan changed the reporting requirement from 20,000 total in gross income from the appses to

$600. now some democrats are having buyer's remorse and want to change the rule retroactively. >> i don't agree with it. say you actually got a taylor swift ticket somehow miraculously. say you resold it because you couldn't attend a concert, so you actually experienced a loss. >> reporter: if you were using the apps to run your business, likely already reporting this as income to the irs. this really impacts average americans that were using these apps to get a little extra cash on the side. liz. elizabeth: hillary vaughn, what a story. welcome to the show former labor secretary nominee andy puzder. what is your take on this? going after the little guy, the pentagon, okay the pentagon can't keep track of two trillion dollars in spending, more than a quarter of a trillion in covid relief money is stolen? the irs is coming for the little guy like this? what to you think? >> nothing more than a plan to monitor these small financial

transactions through apps venmo, a way to trap americans to falsely accuse them of tracks fraud, tax avoidance, impose penalties, additional taxes. americans will be forced to keep track literally of every transfer they sent and receive. even for things like repaying a loan to a family member, making a loan to a family member. or this army of irs agents is going to come after them. biden promised that nobody was going to be paying more taxes that made under $400,000 a year. well, this procedure will increase taxes for working and middle-class americans, it will increase taxes for everybody, really, from people that make virtually nothing, to people that make millions. elizabeth: so here's the thing, but andy, to your point, senators elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, the "squad," they say they were going after the billionaires but now they're going after the little guy. listen to one of the little guys

here. watch this. >> it was very invasive. you feel very attacked because that guy wanted to go back and say i got her and they want to get you. they're coming after you for an audit, they don't want to see your receipt, go, okay, you're good. no, they will nitpick your life apart. that is not what the american american dream is for self-employment, small business. i mean that's, that is just a kick in the teeth to do that to people living the american dream. elizabeth: it is really unfair, you know? it is so unfair. let me back up. let's talk about this, sam bankman-fried, ftx ceo, loses billions of dollars in investor money. took out four billion dollars in loans including a billion dollar loan for himself, other money for his cronies. this is a collapsed crypto exchange, ftx. he is not arrested like bernie madoff was? instead the democrats treat him like a darling.

msnbc puts up this completely absurd story, oh, blame his alll truism, giving away of investor money for his downfall, really? going after the little guy for a 600-dollar couch sale on venmo? >> like woodard and bernstein said in the days going after nixon, they said follow the money. if you want to know why this, this crypto criminal is not being prosecuted, follow the money. who did he contribute to? elizabeth: but the point is, that he is getting a bye, right? he may be hauled in before congress. who knows if he will get arrested but the media is treating it lightly, democrats treating it lightly. manages even maxine waters blowing the guy a kiss but going after ranchers or small people. does anybody in d.c. care who pays their paycheck? >> we always knew they were not just going after the super-rich, the money, if you want to tax

the untaxed wealth in the country is in the middle class and working class. they are paying lower taxes. that is where the money is. if you know anything about the democrats you knew that is where they were going to go. this is a perfect example people said that they were telling the truth. they are going after working, middle class families. elizabeth: andy puzder. we're staying on this. we'll stick up for the little guy, stick up for the viewer who doesn't have the voice. andy, keep being a voice for the little guy. good to see you. wee have this white house confusion. it mistakenly told nine million americans that student loans were forgiven. now the white house has taken that back. that story is coming up. also the white house is fighting congress for trying to get rid of the military covid vaccine mandate. the debate why that mandate is unfair. congresswoman nicole malliotakis next here on "the evening edit".

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♪. elizabeth: okay, we bring you this story, it is happening right now, there is a big fight breaking out in congress between

congress and the white house actually over getting rid of the biden vaccine mandate for the u.s. military. now fox news senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is on capitol hill with the latest. >> reporter: liz, a win for republicans as the house agreed to ditch the vaccine mandate as part of the annual defense bill. one gop senator who is a doctor agrees. >> there is not enough science to support a vaccine mandate. these are young, healthy individuals for the most part. people who have the highest risk of complications from the vaccine, least risk of complications from the virus itself. >> reporter: vaccine mandates are older than the republic. general george washington required troops to receive small box innoculations to fight the british in 177. the administration argues vaccine requirements to fight a host of diseases are essential to maintain a healthy force ready for combat. republicans say the mandate harmed military retention.

>> there is some point to that, when the military goes in, you go into the military your body so to speak belongs to the military but the military responsibility to look what happened with this vaccine and the problems that it has caused. >> reporter: the house debates the defense bill thursday but the senate schedule is unclear. in fact senate minority leader mitch mcconnell says they're at an impasse. liz? elizabeth: got it. chad pergram, great reporting. welcome to the show congresswoman nicole malliotakis from house select subcommittee on the coronavirus. congresswoman, great to see you. what is your take on the story? what do you think? >> look, i was among the members of the congress signed on to a amicus brief to stop, actually did stop successfully in court biden's vaccine mandates on the private sector and private employers. we said that would impact labor shortages. likewise we're seeing this is

having an impact on retention, is having impact on recruitment. all the branches said they had difficulty recruiting with army, meeting 26% below it is recruitment goals this year. so we believe that somebody should not be held accountable in the sense they should lose their livelihoods if they choose not to get vaccination. i'm vaccinateds, supported those who got vaccinated, held clinics. we shouldn't tie somebody's livelihood to that. particularly not endangering the national security of our country if we don't have enough people serving in our military already. elizabeth: so let's listen to biden campaigned against the vaccine mandate in 2020. watch this. >> vaccines mandatory? president biden: no i don't think it should be mandatory. i wouldn't demand it be mandatory. do everything in my power, i don't think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide. elizabeth: he said that after he won the election. your reaction to that. we have nearly two dozen

republican governors saying to the white house you have to repeal this mandate. it is hurting military readiness but the pentagon chief lloyd austin saying a million people died already from this virus but the tight labor market is why we're having trouble recruiting. what do you think of his argument? >> look, i don't agree with the secretary's argument. i think it is the mandate that is having an impact on other recruitment and retention. it is not the first time we've seen the president flip-flop. he has done it a few times in his presidency but reality is, look we encouraged people to get vaccinated. if they're not going to get vaccinated they should still not be allowed to serve in our military. individuals are willing to put their life on the line for our freedoms they should have the freedom to choose in this situation. elizabeth: former democrat hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard is saying there is no question the vaccine mandate for the military should be abolished and those let go over it should be reinstated with back pay.

watch this. >> i know people personally, brian, who have been kicked out of the military. some who served 10 years, 20 years, 25 years, all because of this mandate that makes no sense. frankly it is based on a lie that fauci and others continue to propagate as they have throughout this whole thing which is these vaccines will prevent you from catching covid and that it will prevent you from spreading covid. the fact this is even a question at this point, whether or not to lift this dod mandate and that secretary austin is opposing it, it is just absolute madness. elizabeth: congresswoman, you heard that. she is saying people get sick with the vaccine anyway. health experts warn there are side-effects like myocarditis. other health pros say the vaccine mitigates the virus. you hear those debates. >> it did not stop the spread, may reduce symptoms or make them

more mild. this decision should be between individual and medical professionals they seek advice from. look, i would say, look what happened with the coast guardsmen who the president lauded as hero. then he was put on the firing block for not getting vaccinated. he made a good point saying when i was rescuing those people they didn't care whether i was vaccinated or not. they just wanted to be saved. those are the heroes we're trying to protect here. it looks like we made some progress. looks like the ndaa includes a provision would repeal the mandate. we need to fight to get those military men and women who were fired, to be put back on the rolls. that is the next step. we'll take the win for now. elizabeth: we had a botched government lockdowns and shutdowns where government told u.s. workers they were not essential. things like that, shutting down local shoe repair shops, keeping big box stores like target and costco open. then they told the so-called essential workers that they defined that they had to get

vaccinated. you know what i mean? it is all over the map. this is what went on. go ahead, final word. >> they created a lot of damage. in new york city we're having our own fight because the mayor has done the same thing to our nypd, fdny, first-responders and teachers. we're trying to get the mayor to have common sense, restore the public workers because they lifted the mandate for the private sector but not for public employees. elizabeth: wild stuff. congresswoman malliotakis, we appreciate you coming on tonight. thanks for sharing your insight. good to see you again. elon musk fires twitter's top lawyer james baker for baker's potential involvement in the twitter censorship of the hunter biden laptop story and for potentially blocking, trying to block musk's second release of twitter files. this story broke within the past couple hours. we're on it. more white house confusion. the white house mistakenly tells nine million americans their students lents were forgiven. when they were not. they had to take that back.

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elizabeth: so the story is, is that the biden got out the youth vote for the midterms by promising a student loan bailout. then these erroneous emails are sent out by a contractor for the education department. accenture federal services. your student loan debt relief plan has been approved. then in the text of the letter saying the courts are still trying to determine eligibility. this seems like a massive problem and confusion what this white house is doing here. >> it's a massive problem and you're absolutely right, liz. it was a cynical ploy to boost turnout ahead of the 2022 midterms. now what millions of americans are going to find out that the biden white house lied to them. the biden white house will eventually try to turn this on the court, say, hey, this is conservative supreme court. i had the law behind me when they actually had the law behind them to do this. elizabeth: no president in the history of the united states in modern u.s. history has done anything like this to say we're

going to do a 400 billion-dollar bailout without congress being involved. no one has ever done that. that is a violation of the separation of powers. listen, also unfair to people who did not go to college. watch former omb director russ vought, he is saying just that. watch what he has to say, listen. >> it is unfair to the people that have paid their student loans along the way or to those who have never had an opportunity to go to college. elizabeth: but if you listen to msnbc and others they say you know, this student loan debt should be forgiven. what do you say? >> absolutely it's a wealth transfer from 87% to 13% who are more well-heeled but at the end of the day the a violation of the separation of powers. you're absolutely right, liz, if congress did this, used an emergency power to do end-run around congress to make long-term policy, i will tell you something, there are 120

national emergency powers, you basically render congress as unequal branch. elizabeth: unfortunately the networks don't talk about it doesn't stop tuition gouging at the front end by fat cat academics that do tuition gouging. taxpayers pay this bill. your final word and we got to go. >> this is a bandaid t doesn't solve the problem. government needs to get out of the loan business and colleges need to stop raising tuition. elizabeth: you're the great. elon musk firing his top lawyer james baker for his involvement in the censorship of the hunter biden laptop story and potentially blocking musk's second release of twitter files. the story next. ♪ ♪ this... is a glimpse into the no-too-distant future of lincoln. ♪ ♪

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elizabeth: welcome back. okay, this lawsuit from the republican state attorneys general for missouri and louisiana, it accuses the white house of colluding with social media to censor speech. and we've got this story: dr. fauci testified in this lawsuit saying, quote, i don't recall 1 is 74 times -- 174 times, even about his own e-mails and interviews. fox news' gillian turner has more on this in d.c. >> reporter: well, liz,

dr. anthony fauci is once again in republicans' crosshairs. state attorneys general for louisiana and accuse him of, quote, federal bureaucrats in collusion with social media with companies want to control not only what you think, but especially what you say. jeff landry and eric smith are -- eric schmidt are suing the biden administration over government collusion with big tech. now pacing the wrath of elon musk and conservatives across america. the white house yesterday sought to downplay friday's twittergate revelations. >> what is happening is, frank ily, it's not healthy, it won't do anything to help a single american improve their lives. and so, look, isn't -- we see this as interesting, you know, coincidence, and, you know, it's a distraction. >> reporter: ceo elon musk is easing there is more to come in what he is calling his quest for transparency.

he is allowing independent journalists access to twitter's internal communications related to decision making about the hunter biden story. he says weiss will release a long form report sometime soon. liz? elizabeth: thank you so much for your journalism there, gillian turner. joining us now, congressman greg steube. it's great to see you again. >> good to see you. elizabeth: elon musk fired twitter's top the lawyer, james baker, for two things, potential involvement in twitter's censorship of the hunter biden laptop story and potentially trying to block musk's second release of twitter e-mails and educate messages. when you heard this, what was your reaction in. >> well, my reaction was no surprise that, you know, you have those that have been in twitter for years that have colluded and conspired with the biden administration to censor conservative votes, that they would try to elon in the discharge of some of this information. and thankfully, we have someone like elon musk who's gone in there and shook things up and believes in freedom and

transparency for the american people and that government shouldn't be telling social media companies what to censor and not to censor. thankfully, we have somebody like that. unfortunately, we don't have somebody like that in facebook and some of these other social media companies. but now that the the republicans have the majority january 3rd, there's going to be a lot of accountability that's going to come to washington. elizabeth: james baker was james comey's former top deputy at the fbi, top counsel at the fbi. he was involved in the debunked trump-russia collusion probe, he was involved in the general michael flynn case, he was involved in fisa warrants to spy on the trump campaign, he was involved -- his appointment, apparently, on the hillary clinton debunked trump/alpha bank, the russian alfa-bank story as well. we have tim thibault, now we've got james baker doing it over here underneath musk, trying to block what musk is trying to release on what was going on at twitter. >> yeah.

deep state bureaucrats trying to protect democrats and not allow for transparency and things that keys believe in. and those are -- conservatives believe in. those are the types of things we're going to fight against. and the types of things that you mentioned with the fbi and doj, that goes to the highest levels of the politicization that has occurred in that agency. we're going to bring that to bear come january 3rd. elizabeth: so, you know, people who watch msnbc or other networks are not getting the full story of what joe biden is being accused of, garden-variety corruption. based on his position mt. obama white house with china, russia, kazahkstan and more. did the fbi brief you or anybody many congress on their weekly meetings with wig tech and social media and silicon valley before the 2020 election about censorship? >> no, of course not, and i'm sure they didn't brief a single republicans, because they didn't want republicans to know that

was going on because that undercuts their theory that -- elizabeth: so the fbi just goes rogue, is that it? >> 100%. elizabeth: so what do you do to stop? the national conversation has been so poisoned and distonighted by other networks who don't do the journalistism -- journalism. >> they don't want to put out the facts and the real evidence, and and you have a deep state and the fbi that'll do anything to corrupt for democrats. and we're going to bring that to bear when we take the gavels back and start our investigations. elizabeth: all right, congressman steube, merry christmas. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us, have a good evening and tune in again tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ jimmy: breaking news tonight the, polls have just closed in the georgia senate runoff election between republican herschel walker and democrat incumbent -- i'm tom shillue many for kennedy