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recession peers grip corporate america -- fears, but can the gop stop democrats' demands for even more new spending that fueled inflation and recession? even president biden now admits that inflation is here to stay. after he said it was zero. with us tonight, senator marsha blackburn, congressman french hill, jim jordan and john katko, joe vivaldi, "newsweek"'s bati s defending education. the white house silent today on the former top democrat lawyer at the fbi on trump-russia? musk now fired him from twitter for secretly censoring the hunter biden laptop story and delaying and vetting the twitter files on that. even twitter's former ceo, jack dorsey, urging elon musk, release everything. plus, the news twitter had a back door for the white house on the pandemic. and will president biden veto the repeal if of the military

vaccine mandate that both democrats and the gop wantsome plus, we got a new shock study on covid vaccines, and will the house gop score with its new probe into biden's botched exit out of afghanistan? and is america waking up to the revenge of the school board parents in the superintendent of loudoun county schools fired after a grand jury finds massive failures there. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. check your money. stocks ending mostly lower in choppy trading. china did dial back its covid lockdowns, but ceos and investors here still worried that fed interest rate hikes will drag the u.s. economy into a deeper recession. senator raphael warnock wins re-election with record turnout in the georgia senate runoff, and now fox has exclusively learned that the first lady,

jill biden and the biden family, do support president biden, his re-election bid in 2024. fox news' jacqui heinrich at the white house with more. >> reporter: liz, some have wondered if president biden's bid to overhaul the democrats' primary nominating callen calendar is an indication that he's running. now we're hearing some reports that suggest he might have made up his mind. president biden and the first lady reportedly toasted biden's bid for a second term with their french counterparts as last week's state dinner at dr. emmanuel macron walked away from jill biden saying, apparently, congratulations are in order. despite reported hesitation over the president's age, workload and upcoming congressional investigations, a senior adviser tells fox dr. biden and the family are supportive of biden's intention to run which would be a departure from his stance in march of 2020. democrats say a biden 2024 run would help democrats down the ballot even though they did

better than expected without him in georgia's senate runoff. raphael warnock retaining his senate seat amid record voter turnout. elizabeth: great information, jacqui heinrich. joining us now, congressman french hill and joegy malady from the fraternal order of police. happy holidays, merry christmas to you all. congressman, let's first get your reaction to the president. he's going to run again. but, and now he's saying inflation is here to stay after he said it was zero. he claimed it was transitory. watch. >> it's going to take time to get inflation back to normal levels as we keep our job market resilient. we could see setbacks along the way, to state the obvious. economists call all these things transitory effects. >> increases in prices are likely to have only transitory effects on inflation -- >> transitory -- >> transitory -- >> transitory -- >> transitory. >> today we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of july.

0%. elizabeth: okay. none of that was true. congressman, what are republicans doing to stop the democrats with their demands for more spending? it's fueling inflation. the ped is battling with even more rate hikes as they ramp up the spending -- the fed -- it's like trying to cure an alcoholic with more vodka. what are republicans going to do about this? >> boy, liz, you got it right, which is it's a lot harder for the fed to beat inflation when we're still spending money like drunken sailors, adding regulatory burden, proposing to raise taxes on energy if making it hard to get all americans back to work. those won't work. so when the house is taken over by the republicans in january, we're going to offer concrete legislative proposal to lower those taxes, make spending back under control, go back to pre-pandemic e spending debates, unleash american energy and get the supply side of our economy moving. elizabeth: but are you going to get senate democrats to go with

wow? -- with you? i mean, the republicans seem scattered. they don't seem to have a cohesive, powerful front to push back against senate >> i doubt it but we've got to get senate republicans on our side and let's take the common message to the american people. we've got about nine months to demonstrate how much better we are on ideas and policy so that we can convince the american people to elect a republican president in 2024 and return the senate to the republican hands and reelect house republicans. >> so the gop is being criticized for not doing enough to stand up and be fighting back harder against what democrats are doing to the nation, joe. more and more u.s. coulds are gearing up for a deeper recession next year. what was your reaction when you heard that walmart and retail giants are warning about this new type of inflation that they had to raise prices because of a historic breakout of

lootings and robberies at their retail stores. joe, walmart is even warning it may have to close stores. >> yeah, i mean, when you look at just how bad retail theft has got, since 2018, it has nearly doubled. it went from 50 billion to now it's pushing 95 billion, with a b, and yet you still have so-called some politicians saying well this is just a victimless crime. we shouldn't throw the book at career thieves now let me tell you, they are either outwardly lying or just woefully ignorant about how the real-world actually works because make no mistake the victim in all this is you the consumer, because all these costs are going to be passed on to you, so when you go shopping this christmas season, and you see huge prices you know who to blame. it's career thieves, the woke policies that allow them to be out, and inflation. so once again, the hard-working law abiding members of our community get screwed. elizabeth: so congressman, to what joe just said isn't this a layup for the republicans they

should just take what joe gamald i just said and run down the court with it because even walmart ceo is blaming woke da's for this rise in crime because of weak democrat policies and citizen states nationwide. he's saying that needs to be corrected. shouldn't republicans run with this? >> you bet. i campaigned on it this year for my re-election. crime is an absolute issue across this country due to weak mayors and weak policies in our local areas, in my own cvs store down the street from my apartment in washington d.c., you walk into an armed guard now with his hand on his hip, as you walk into cvs and target said this week it's costing them $400 million a year for this kind of smash-and-grab approach so republicans have always been for funding the police, not defunding the police, and we want people convicted of their crime and serve their time. elizabeth warren what the congressman just said, joe, and you've talked about this , the congressman is pointing out

something, john. nearly three dozen states now say theft of less than a thousand dollars is just a demeanor. democrat officials busted that down to just the equivalent of a parking ticket. joe, i want you to listen to this security guard that this philadelphia gas station owner had to hire private security guards with weapons to defend the gas station. watch this security guard. >> a lot of people didn't understand why we were here, and then, the following week, when people realized what happened here, a lot of people got on board. philadelphia is off the chain. right now, statistics say, 62% of thefts, robberies, and the biggest one of all, carjackings happen at the pump. now for this owner, the last straw was when he got hit three weeks ago, the lack of political action we have uncle larry, the da, whose not a da, he's acting like a social worker. prosecute the criminals.

that is what you're supposed to do. not give them the keys to the city. >> look at the map, you can see it nationwide that it's being like a trivial item retail theft of a thousand or less. i think americans are sick and tired of it, joe. >> i think we're all sick and tired of it, liz and the fact of the matter is we know how to fix it and we know we can increase our patrols in that area and we can get these people into custody and if we just had the rest of the criminal justice system cooperating with us, and throw the back at these career thieves, these are not people just getting picked up for shoplifting a snickers bar. we're talking about people that have been arrested dozens sometimes hundreds of times before and you're just letting them right back out and it leads to not keeping stores open, cvs, walgreens and now walmart is starting to close. how much more damage do we need to do to under privileged communities because make no mistake they are the ones that suffer. it creates financial deserts they can't get banking in that area and it's not a coincidence

that 15 of the top 15 cities leading this country in murders are all controlled by democrats with democrat da's it's time we start worrying about victims instead of suspects and we keep allowing these criminals to do this over and over again. enough already. liz: that was a great interview, thank you, both gentlemen for joining us have a merry christmas, same here. this new fight, will president biden veto the repeal of the military vaccine mandate that both democrats and the gop won? plus, congressman jim jordan coming up, next, on the evening edit, on the fbi's role in social media censorship, after elon musk fires twitter's top lawyer for his role in censoring the hunter biden laptop story. he was secretly also vetting the twitter files. this is the same guy who was involved at the fbi. fbi's former top democrat lawyer including in multiple controversies like the debunked trump russia probe. all of this is coming up. >> this story is not about some private company deciding what

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elon musk fired twitter's top lawyer for his role in twitter censoring the hunter biden laptop story. now james baker was the democrat former top fbi lawyer on trump russia and other controversies he was involved in. kelly o'grady is in los angeles with more. kelly? reporter: well, always good to see you, liz. twitter is under scrutiny after the bombshell news that the first release of files was being filtered without musk's knowledge by one of the very same people involved in the decision to censor that hunter biden laptop story. musk addressed the controversy yesterday evening tweeting this , "in light of concerns about baker's possible role in suppression of information, important to the public dialogue , he was exited from twitter today." now, note that james baker was also the former general counsel for the fbi so critics are questioning how he was still allowed to be involved this long none moreso than republican lawmakers, that are now calling for those involved in the suppression decision to appear before the house

oversight committee and warning they will subpoena records once they take control of the house in january. twitter founder jack dorsey though has a solution, just release everything. he tweeted this , "if the goal is transparency to build trust why not just release everything without filter and let people julep for themselves including all discussions around current and future actions, make everything public now." and liz, for now, it appears we will still get the files in piecemeal journalists sharing the twitterverse should stay tuned for the next release and i'll be refreshing my twitter feed constantly. liz: kelly o'grady great reporting as always. joining us house judiciary ranking member congressman jim jordan. congressman, it's a pleasure to see you again, thanks for coming on. >> good to be with you, you bet , thank you. liz: what exactly will house republicans do about this? what are you going to do? voters have been worried about all this. the key period going to hold people to account but that never seems to happen. >> well step one in holding people accountable and stopping this behavior in the future -- liz: but that feels meaningless.

>> i can't, you know, liz, i can't prosecute anyone. only the justice department can but if you highlight what they've done, you have a better chance of stopping it and so that's our constitutional duty in the legislative branch and we're going to focus on that, so yeah. here is one question i have. thistle advice chan, a guy working at the fbi doing these weekly briefings in the run-up to the 2020 election, i want to talk to him and ask him, did you talk to jim baker? you're out there in san francisco and northern california. did you have meetings with jim baker? did jim baker get a read out of what you messages and information you conveyed to twitter and other social media platforms? i think that's a great place to start. we're going to talk to elvis cha n. we've sent a letter to the judy miller asking to talk to him, when we get in the majority, i think we'll have that opportunity. liz: because msnbc and cnn focus on everything else and new york times focuses on everything else about trump or capital riots.

this is a first amendment violation, congressman. it's the fbi. it is the fbi stepping in and dictating what, you know, is said on social media, so what are fbi whistleblowers saying? i mean james baker shows up at twitter five months before the 2020 election, after he was a top fbi democrat guy on debunked trump russia, michael flynn, hillary clinton campaigns , fbi contact, to get the debunked trump russia alpha bank story in so you know what i mean? >> no, i know. liz: so this is a first amendment violation. >> well of course. liz: this is the bedrock of what a u.s. , of what democracy is. it's about the first amendment, period. >> right, and now we're learning the central players a guy who when he was at the fbi as chief counsel was involved in the trump russia spying all that baloney. he was the guy that took the information from zussman, clinton's lawyer about the alpha bank hoax and scam. then he goes to twitter suppress es the information in 2020. liz: but what are fbi khanas telling you? sorry this is serious stuff.

what is fbi whistleblowers telling you? >> they are telling me what i was just describing represents the hierarchy of the fbi and one whistleblower, one fbi agent who came to us as a whistleblower said rot in at the core at the washington field office at the upperrish long of the fbi. that's what they are telling us, not one, multiple whistleblowers have told us that. one whistleblower who went to senator grassley said this individual time o is the guy partially responsible for suppressing the hunter biden story. we had a different whistleblower mention that same name and say he was also an agent who was pressuring other agents to label all cases as domestic violence. so politics runs rampant at the washington field office. that's where we got to uncover, get all of the facts out there so that we can change it and stop it. liz: all right so we've got a new lawsuit. it reveals government documents that show twitter also setup a back door for government officials in the cdc to track

twitter posts and the pandemic to stop disinformation. this comes from the america- first legal group yesterday. we know there's bad information about things like vaccines putting microchips in people. that doesn't happen, but you know, this is again the government stepping in. i mean, bari weiss, congressman, she's going to get the second release of twitter files this friday. her jaw reportedly hit the floor when she found out it was jim baker vetting the twitter files and there was a delay. >> yeah, no, it's that bad. this collusion of big tech big media, big government to keep information from we the people i said this earlier, but it was actually a colleague of mine who said a couple months ago. when is the fbi just going to stay out of elections and let we the people decide because remember 2016 it was trump russia, 2018 the mueller investigation, 2020 suppression of the hunter biden story, 2022 91 days before the mid-term elections they raid president trump's home and now just two weeks ago, three days after he announces he's running, what do they do in the special counsel

so that's five elections in a row. liz: listen, it's the complicit y of the media too remember chuck schumer going on rachel maddow and never pushed back on that. the fbi is part of the government. again, that's a first amendment crisis. we hear you, but let's listen to democrat congressman ro khanna on this. watch this. >> look no one is saying, at least i'm not saying any of the sensational pictures or photographs concerning hunter biden should be out there. that's not what this was about. this was about a journalist, at the new york post, writing an article about "the situation" and there's no justification for suppressing that, even if the source of that had gotten that information through something that was hacked. that was the case of the pentagon papers, and so the fbi should explain what they were doing and what the rationale was. i certainly hope and expect that they weren't trying to do it to

bias twitter against or for a particular candidate. liz: that's democrat ro khanna. you can't pass this off as oh, this is naked pictures of hunter biden, no. it's about the laptop detailing how the biden family was cashing in on joe biden's name, selling access to russia and china and kazakhstan and more. go ahead. >> and liz, remember, the context. you had 51 former intel official s, clapper, brennan and 49 others who signed that letter that says this has all the earmarks of a russian misinformation operation. baloney it was true, so when the fbi comes in weekly and talks to the social media platforms, with that being the context, of course they are going to keep that information from getting to we the people, again just days before the most important election we have. that's the problem. here is the situation with democrats. they don't believe in the first amendment. democrats now say if you don't agree with me you aren't supposed to talk, you aren't supposed to share information

and if you do we'll call you all kinds of names or we're going to suppress it and that's what happened here. liz: it's so dangerous for democracy. congressman jordan we thank you for bringing it to light. we'll have you back on again soon. good to see you. okay this story coming up house republicans right out of the box they're doing a new probe into biden's botched exit out of afghanistan that left 13 troops dead and 9,000 americans strand ed. what will they accomplish with this one and this new fight. while president biden veto the repeal of the military vaccine mandate? we had messaging out of the white house press secretary today we'll get to it with senator marsha blackburn, the senator led the charge to get rid of this military vaccine mandate. the senator is next on "eveninge editmb." so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back. wow! what'd you get, ryan? it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual!!! what does it do, bud?

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liz: let's welcome back to the show senator marsha blackburn. senator, it's a pleasure having you on. you're on senate arm services you led the charge to get rid of the vaccine mandate for the military. both democrats and republicans doing this. senator, there are fears the president may veto this. we would like your reaction to this new sound from the white house press secretary, watch this. >> and we believe that it is a mistake. what we saw, what we saw happen on the nda, as it relates to the vaccine mandate. liz: what do you think, senator? well the president veto it? >> liz, we are helped in this by the fact that you have democrats and republicans in both the house and the senate

that support removing this mandate. the president has said the pandemic is over. we know that if you get the covid shot it does not keep you from getting covid. we also know that our military is not reaching their retention goals, their recruiting goals, and we have seen 3,300 marines, 1,800 from the army, 1,800 from the navy, 900 from the air force , that have already been removed. the army alone is 15,000 troops short for this year. next year, they're going to be an additional 21,000 troops short, so it is vitally important that we remove this and that we put the military focus on readiness and making certain that we are there to protect this country against what i call the new axis

of evil, russia, china, iran, north korea. liz: where is the language to reinstate the thousands of troops discharged for not getting vaccinated? >> and that is something we will have to take up once the mandate is rescinded. dod is going to have 30 days from the time this becomes law to rescind that mandate. then we can move on to next steps. liz: you know, governor youngkin of virginia, he's getting rid of the covid pandemic shutdown fines. he is refunding them. excuse me, senator, we have to move on to this. there's this new peer-reviewed study out of germany. this is shocking. german researchers discovered after they did these scientists they did their own personal autopsies of five otherwise healthy people. they found that these healthy people died from myocarditis from the covid-19 vaccine and that is

why germany recommends against using the moderna vaccine in anybody underage 30. >> and the more we learned about the covid vaccines, the more we learn about lockdown s and mandates, the more people are asking questions, whether it is the vaccine and the up-tick in the rate of myocarditis in young men, concerns about other co morbidities in people that have had covid, had very difficult cases, sometimes lost their lives. what people want to know is exactly what happened, where did this come from, what was the process around the vaccines in making their way to the marketplace. that is why it is so important that the house do its work on oversight and it is important that we remove this mandate from our military and allow them to focus on readiness. liz: well, senator, you're

bringing up and raising important issues in leading the charge on this. it's important work that you're doing because this story out of israel, israeli scientists at tel aviv university discovered two antibodies that can knockout all covid strains where you do not need a booster at all. it focuses on antibody treatments instead of the vaccine built on the spike protein. >> yes, and one of the things that has been perplexing to many of the viral researchers that i have spoken with is the mutation s in the virus, and the way you have different strains of covid and how you have individuals that have been double vaxxed. they have been double boosted, and they are still contracting covid. liz: yeah, that's a big story. we're going to stay on this and track this as it moves through the senate and to the president 's desk. we'll see if he's going to veto this. it's a big story, senator blackburn thank you so much, we really appreciate you coming on

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liz: okay, joining us now, the ranking member of house homeland security he's congressman john katko. congressman, it's great to see you again. okay, what is the plan for house republicans to probe president biden's botched withdrawal from afghanistan? we know that 13 u.s. troops are dead. senate foreign relations found he left behind and stranded 9,000 americans but what exactly is your strategy? >> well the strategy is to find out why it happened the way it did, but more importantly, what's the fall out from that homeland security standpoint. it's really a two-pronged inquiry. one is is al qaeda, is isis and

other terrorist groups re constituting within afghanistan? is the threat level going up? christopher wray, the fbi director in a hearing last month said he was very concerned about that and that's chilling. the other thing is how did we handle all the afghan refugees that came into the united states and the process broke down, the vetting process broke down and are we doing everything we can to make sure we didn't let bad guys from caviezel get into the u.s.. liz: stay with me hang on one second. we have 98 terrorists on the terror watch list caught trying to cross into the u.s. between ports of entry, 380 encounters with terrorists at u.s. borders and ports of entry. that includes multiple encounter s but the botched rationale for pulling out u.s. troops and air cover before getting all americans out, letting the taliban dictate air for security wherever the airlift is being conducted? >> yeah. it was just a colossal series of failures, and what's deeply troubling to me is whether

you're a democrat or republican , a conservative or liberal, you should have done oversight to find out why this happened and what we can do to make sure it doesn't happen again and another thing you got to really think about is what chain of events does afghanistan 's withdrawal set off from a foreign policy standpoint namely did putin feel embolden looking at a weakened foreign policy from this administration as a springboard to go into ukraine. those are all things we want to look at and things we'll have to do going forward for sure. liz: because there's that new pentagon report last week that found that china is capitalizing on this portraying the u.s. as weak to the world and not reliable geopolitical partner so that was that new pentagon report came out, but does the house gop really expect to get declassified documents from the pentagon, the state department, and other agencies on this , because the new chair of house oversight congressman comer is saying there is more than five dozen, almost six dozen instances where you guys are getting blocked from the

white house on this. >> well that's what subpoena power is for. we'll have subpoena power in a majority and we can subpoena these documents, if they choose not to comply with the subpoena, we have enforcement mechanism through the courts. they certainly did it to our side last time and it's time we do this and we have to exercise that authority going forward. this is far too critical a problem to not get to the bottom of and it's not a gotcha thing. it's how did this happen. how can we make sure we keep our homeland safe given what happened. liz: and you know, the families of the 13 troops who died, they deserve a sense of justice. the 9,000 americans stranded, they deserve justice. i mean, we're going to listen to the president. he claimed that al qaeda was gone when it wasn't. he had to do a drone strike to knockout the air to osama bin laden. watch this. >> we went to afghanistan almost 20 years ago with clear goals. get those who attacked us on

september 11, 2001 and make sure al qaeda could not use afghanistan as a base from which to attack us again. we did that. we severely degraded al qaeda and afghanistan. we never gave up the hunt for osama bin laden and we got him. that was a decade ago. what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al qaeda gone? we went to afghanistan for the express purpose of getting rid of al qaeda in afghanistan as well as getting osama bin laden and we did. liz: no you didn't. al qaeda was not gone. you needed a drone strike. this is when biden's approval rating started to go down. is al qaeda gone from afghanistan? >> no. listen, the leader of al qaeda was living in downtown kabul.

they have a head of a terrorist network whose one of the senior officials in the afghanistan government and if the president, i'll answer the president's question about why would we need to stay there now. nobody wants to be there but if you have a secure air base that's uber secure that allows you to continue with your intelligence networks developed over 20 years within afghanistan , that will be the best way to keep an eye on what's going on within afghanistan. we don't have that now and christopher wray and others within its own administration are very worried about that. liz: we got to stick on this for one more second. >> sure. liz: the fbi in may arrested an iraqi asylum seeker. he was threatening to assassinate former president george w. bush. he was plotting to bring more terrorists ink across southern border to do that. also, a woman who was a kansas mother worked with, she was an isis leader. she was working with, you know, isis leaderrer el bagdadi to blow up college campuses and a

shopping mall we don't nowhere they were or where this was, by smuggling and getting across the border, the southern border terrorists to do all of that. so this is why people are worried. final word. >> yeah, you're exactly right and listen accountability is key , and we've got our job as one of our key jobs on homeland security is to do oversight to make sure our country is safe. it's not about getting back at individuals. it's about making sure our country is safe and we're going to make sure we do that next term. liz: congressman katko pleasure having you on. merry christmas to you. >> you as well. liz: the revenge of the school board parents, this hot story. the superintendent of loudoun county fired after a grand jury finds massive failures in virginia's public schools. plus, d.c. now bracing for a battle royale in congress as democrats hold the senate. news week has a lot to say about this , she's coming up next on " evening edit."

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liz: let's welcome to the show news week deputy opinion editor batya, we love your writing, we love reading your stuff. okay, what do you expect out of d.c. right now, as democrats hold the senate? it's a split congress. kevin mccarthy is getting challenged for his speakership of the house. what do you see coming down? >> thank you so much for your kind words and for having me, liz. i love your show and i love joining you. i've got to say, something really interesting happened last week and it did not get enough attention and it was when senators marco rubio, josh holy, ted cruz, lindsey graham and a few others joined hands with democrats to insist that railroad workers get paid leave. now the amendment failed but those are some big names in republican party and what they were representing was a truth that i think has been exposed of late which is that the real divide in this country is not between the two parties. it's between the two classes, and i think that the split in

the gop is really about that and the future of the gop, its got to be with the working class. liz: so to your point, i mean, the working class is key. i mean, so we don't know if now, kevin mccarthy still doesn't have the votes to be the speaker there seems to be disarray on the republican side and then you have senator joe manchins legislation to spur oil & gas drilling. it was knocked out of the defense spending bill. republicans were against that too. he's saying u.s. energy security has never been more threatened and this is why americans hate travel politics in d.c. that's the little guy. that's the blue collar worker on those oil lines and those pipelines. >> 100%. i mean, the question is, which party is going to be standing with railroad workers and which party is going to be standing with railroad carriers. which party is going to stand up and support andy levins guaranteeing trucker s overtime bill, which party will stand up for the little guy.

if kevin mccarthy thinks that donald trump's voters just turnaround and vote for party on the side of railway carriers instead of railroad workers i think he's going to have real trouble getting that caucus together. liz: to your point, you know, about the little guy, right? that's what little guy pays for d.c. d.c. works for us, not us for them, but there's a sense of elitism from the d.c., you know, new york beltway hen house echo chamber of the media, there's this kind of elitism that is not the heartland, and i don't like it when they see things like the biden family cashing in on joe biden's government position. we knew he had expenses. we knew he had a lot of debt, ba tya. we know that hunter biden was put out there to make money overseas cashing in on the biden family name to take care of all of that but i want your reaction to the white house press secretary silence in all of this watch this. >> i can't speak to decisions made by the campaign from here, that is not, it is a political

campaign so i can't speak to that from here. i'm covered by the hatch act and so i'm just not going to comment on the question that you're asking but what i can say more broadly is of course, it's up to these companies to make their own decision about the content on their platforms and to ensure content follows their own standards and policies but i'm just not going to comment on a decision that was made during the campaign. liz: suddenly, citing the hatch act again it's about twitter censoring the hunter biden laptop story. you've got 10 seconds. >> the democrats have a much bigger problem with china than hunter biden. i have to say, the problem is systemic. they are soft on china from a foreign policy point of view and soft on china when it comes to trade. liz: batya, great to see you. next up the revenge of the school board parents we take it on, coming up. >> evidence has revealed to us after the fact that, you know, this kids a psychopath.

he's a sexual predator. unfortunately we'll hear about him again.

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elizabeth: okay, let's get you updated on the nationwide shortage of baby formula. this rocked the white house and sent parents scrambling earlier this year. now this, the biggest brand on

the market warns this shortage is going to last until coming spring. lydia hu in montclair, new jersey, outside a cvs store. completely wiped out of enfamil. rudd ya. >> reporter: it's been reported that the baby formula shortage is getting better. just last week with it shows that 86% of the supply was in stock, and that is approaching the levels we saw before the shortage started earlier this year. but in contrast, if you look at this photo, it shows the shelves at this cvs pharmacy located just behind me theirly -- nearly bare of baby formula. they continue to ration purchases of formula across the country. social media groups and web sites devoted to helping parents find formula are busy. find my baby formula.com tells us they've seen a spike in parents looking for help. they've registered more than 7,000 people over just the past

couple of weeks. that comes as the maker of the largest baby formula on the market, enfamil, says shortages are expected to last through the spring. reporting from montclair, new jersey, lydia hu, fox business. elizabeth: thank you so much. great reporting there. let's talk to nicole neily, the president and founder of parents defending education. this is a disturbing story. the school superintendent in loudoun county, virginia, scott ziegler, he was fired. a grand jury found the public schools, quote, failed students at every turn. they didn't keep them safe. they botched the probes into multiple sexual assaults in public schools. this is a terrifying story for parents. >> it is horrifying. and, you know, the first thing i have to say is good riddance to bad rub rubbish, and shame on them for coming to this resolution 18 months later, but least he's finally done. elizabeth: let's watch the father in this story, scott smith. he was arrested after the school board.

he said the school board was covering up his daughter's sexual assault. watch this. >> les nobody -- there's nobody held accountable by name. that whole report laid out a bunch of, you know, misdeeds, criminal, you know, situations perhaps. and at the end of the report, you know, we get six recommendations of things that they should do better next time. i hope that the grand jury's not done with their duty yet, and i hope that this has more teeth in it. elizabeth: nicole, it's not good enough. this suspect was transferred to another school in the same district. assaulted another girl. he faces charges many both cases. but the grand jury condemned scott ziegler. he denied he knew anything about the first assault, claimed there were no records of the i assault when he mailed the school board the same date of the first assault alerting them about it. this scares parents nationwide. >> and it should. i mean, this is -- shame on them for lying and gaslighting

parents pretending, covering up trying to cover their tracks, and this is passing the trash and putting other students in danger. this family has been through hell. very few people have the fortitude to endure the kind of public shame and mockery that the smith family has. they deserve better and, you know, that's why the system depends on this. they depend on parents who will just drop out in the pace of adversity. so thanks to scott smith -- elizabeth: but, you know, you had, you know, the doj investigating school board parents as domestic terrorists. >> absolutely. and let's not forget the national school board association actually cited scott smith as a reason to invoke the patriot act against families. elizabeth: listen -- >> talk about having e egg on their face. elizabeth: -- both attacks were vicious. in the second one, the assailant allegedly suffocated, almost suffocated her to death, and then he sexually assaulted her. but then the doj's going to sic the fbi on them as domestic terrorists, the parents upset

about this? your final word. >> it's little wonder that families have lost trust in the system. so i'm thankful that the house is going to exercise proper oversight into how doj did these investigations and the role that they have played and the executive branch -- elizabeth: but after that assailant went to the other school, they didn't do anything about it. they just let it happen. >> right. more heads should roll, absolutely. elizabeth: so what's going to happen, finally? >> the grand jury and, you know, i think the family's going to continue to pursue justice. and certainly the district and families in the district are going to continue to agitate. all seven school board member manies -- elizabeth: got it. nicole neily, thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching the fox business network, "the evening edit." join us again tomorrow night, we're going to have a good show for you. ♪