brian: tough break. a washington state patrol trooper issuing a 533-dollar ticket to a driver after the person drove more than five miles with snow on their windshield. the driver reportedly told the trooper their windshield wipers weren't working. that is just called driving in a minnesota winter. that does it for us on "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: tonight senator bernie sanders, the "squad"'s

new bullying, flat-out wrong attacks on senator krysten sinema over senator sinema ditching democrats and switching to the independent party. your money is on the line. another federal reserve interest rate hike tomorrow but treasury secretary janet yellen adds to the growing white house messaging chaos on inflation. with us tonight congressman james comer, kat cammack, former deputy assistant attorney general tom due bree, former trump economic advisor steve moore, grovedder norquist, dr. marc siegel, from the "new york post," jon levine. more twitter files on twitter banning trump even though he did not break twitter rules. elon musk teases new twitter bombshells are coming on censoring information about the pandemic. plus pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary is slammed for flying around the u.s. on private airplanes paid for by you, by taxpayers in order to lecture americans about climate change when he could

skype or zoom. the white house today tries to downplay the largest caravan in history, crossing the u.s. border right now as the white house gets ready did of trump's title 42 border policy. that is happening next week. biden's allies, they have a new attack plan. they will try to get the media to intimidate gop witnesses even gop lawmakers with personal attack stories on them to undercut upcoming house probes into the biden family cashing in on joe biden's government job. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. look at your money. stocks jumping after coming off the worst week since september. markets are eyeing a new read on inflation. it is coming out tomorrow for november as the fed kicks off its meeting with an expected 7th fed rate hike penciled in for wednesday. it will come in half a point

that is the expectation. we have edward lawrence is at the white house with more. edward. reporter: well, liz the white house pointing to gas prices falling as the reason americans are getting a little bit of a break from inflation. it is still a dollar more, about a dollar more than when president biden took office. all food came in 12 1/2%. cereal, baking products, up double digits. fruits and vegetables up 9.3%. still the treasury secretary says americans should see a break from inflation as things go forward which was 1.4% when president biden took office and shot up to 7.7% where it stands right now. the white house points to all the spend president signed into law as with way to battle inflation so i asked this. inflation before the midterms you told me the inflation reduction act should bring down inflation next year if it doesn't do that significantly -- >> first that is a bunch of

hypotheticals you're asking me. what i laid out was something that economists said by looking at inflation reduction act. by examining it, understanding what it is going to do for the american people. you're bringing up a hypothetical. reporter: tomorrow the cpi inflation report comes out another gauge on inflation. wednesday we get the decision how high the federal reserve will raise interest rates. it looks like half a percent. back to you. brian: elizabeth: great reporting edward lawrence thank you so much. look who is back with us congresswoman kat cammack from house small business, former trump economic advisor steve moore. the whole inflation reduction act is hypothetical. i don't know what the white house press secretary is talking about. congressman, like your reaction to treasury secretary janet yellen adding to the chaos on white house messaging on inflation. watch this. >> i think we'll see a substantial reduction in inflation in the year ahead. >> it is going to take a year? >> i believe by the end of next year you will see much lower inflation, if there is not an unanticipated shock. >> 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. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory. >> transitory. elizabeth: never gets old. congresswoman, could you believe this new messaging we have to wait until next year? >> oh, my gosh, absolutely not. we know what the cause that is driving this inflation. it is out of control spending. look you don't spend $10 trillion in two years and not expect to have 8, 9% inflation. today over $16 billion is owed by american families just for utilities. they're not worried about christmas. they're worried about making rent. they're worried about groceries. they're worried about putting gas in their car, yet again people will see higher rates. if you have a variable rate on your mortgage or your car loan or credit card which so many americans have exorbitant credit

card debt right now, you will pay a price. that is because of the biden regime. they don't want to deal with inflation. they want to kick the can down the road. they're not fixing it. they're contributing to it. elizabeth: to what the congresswoman is saying we may be seeing rates, steve heading above 6%, who knows. both inflation and fed rate hikes, it's a double-whammy on consumers. it is suppressing consumer spending which is 2/3 of the economy. rates have been quad drawl quadrupling since the beginning of the year. the way to stop inflation, boost the economy, let u.s. energy rip. unleash energy. it saved obama white house recession after financial collapse of 2008. what do you think, steve, about all of this? >> first of all i put no trust in janet yellen's inflation they think inflation is going down next year, because they have been wrong, wrong, wrong, for the last 18 to 20 months.

prices are up 15% since biden came into office. that is a massive tax on the middle class. the congresswoman is right. you can trace that back to the massive spending bills that happened in biden's first two years. where are we headed? i still think we can have a soft landing, liz, especially if the congresswoman can persuade her colleagues to start taking a chainsaw to that budget, cutting out some of that excessive spending but you're also right when those interest rates go up, look what is happening to the mortgage market right now with mortgages now at 6 1/2 to 7% when they were less than 3% under trump? that adds to the cost of selling a house. it adds to the cost of buying a us who. it is hurting that market. so we will see but right now i don't have a lot, i think we'll see inflation of about five or 6% next year, but liz, the target is 3%. so they're still way above where they want to be. elizabeth: what steve is saying, congresswoman, everybody saw this coming like you know, a

million elephants marching down the road, big government stepping in and messing up the trump economy. biden inherited a v-shaped economy coming out of pandemic shutdowns. this is true government incompetence. what is the house -- i know you guys can't do a lot. you have taxpayers having to report to the irs on 1099 forms their 600-dollar transactions on phone apps like venmo, paypal zelle? they make money selling something on these apps. you get something warm and comfortable, but like a hippopotamus rolling over to crush you. >> i'm the first one to say you need to keep the government small to keep your dreams big. a big government is the ultimate killer of the american dream. what we have to do in the gop is immediately fire the 87,000 irs

agents designed to increase audits on working class americans. we got to get government out of the way. i am the sponsor, will being responsorring the rains act, not exactly the sexiest topic in the world, liz, reins in the regulatory environment that costs trillions of dollars. that will put pressure on unelected bureaucrats in washington who contribute cost of goods and services across the board through regulatory administrative state. that is what we can exert the authority. we have good word the bill is brought up and passed out of the house. that is one way we do it. until we reduce spending get government out of the way, american prosperity and innovation can't take root. we have to get government out of the way. elizabeth: that's it. then you have bernie sanders, aoc, the "squad" are wrongly bullying krysten sinema leaving

democrat independent pert. because this undercuts democrats on warnock victory. >> does she have the guts to go against corporate interests? >> she is corporate democrat, along with senator manchin sabotaged enormously important legislation. elizabeth: what is the senator talking about? senator sinema, sinema voted with biden agenda 93% of the time. she voted for inflation reduction act. she voted for gun laws. she doesn't want to get rid of the senate filibuster. that is what he is mad about? more tax hikes, government blowout spending on 51 party-line vote? that is what bernie sanders is mad about. we had the filibuster in there for generations, steve. >> you're so right. it shows how left-wing the democratic party has become, that someone who votes 93% of the time with joe biden is somehow way too conservative for the modern-day democrats. i've been in this town,

washington, d.c., for 35 years, when i first came to town people like sam nunn, people like dick gephardt, so many democrats that really were moderate democrats who believed in balancing the budget, who believed in welfare reform, who believed in free trade. now you can't count own one finger number of democrats. you have a situation now where krysten sinema who is maybe a little bit to the right of where the party is, they basically booted her out of the party. elizabeth: they're bullying her. they bullied her. they stalked her in airports. stalked her into her bathroom. they continue to bully senator sinema. final word? steve go ahead. final word. >> you're exactly right. this is, this is a party that is basically been taken over by the radical left. elizabeth: okay. >> it is one reason you got to defeat the democrats in 2024 because four more years of this would be ruinous. you're so right by the way. turn on the spigots on energy, single most important thing to get our economy moving.

>> there you go, congresswoman cammack, steve moore, pleasure having you both on. merry christmas. goodhe sue both. transportation secretary pete buttigieg he is slammed for flying around on the u.s. on polluting private jets paid for by you the tax payers lecturing you about climate change when he could skype or zoom. twitter president trump did not break twitter rules. elon musk teases new bombshells coming on censoring information about the pandemic. congressman james comer next on "the evening edit." ♪

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elizabeth: we're staying on the breaking news today. new twitter files dropped on banning former president trump even though they believe trump did not actually break twitter rules. fox news mike emanuel in washington with more. mike? reporter: liz, the fifth installment of the twitter files is about the removal of then president trump in the days after the january 6th attack on the capitol from the social media platform. independent journalist barry weiss tweeting this afternoon on morning of january 8th, president donald trump at strike before permanent suspension of twitter tweets twice. at 6:48 the president tweeted about 75 million who voted for

him. they will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form. then weiss reveals internal debate from unnamed twitter staffers about whether that was incitement. weiss notes after january 6th twitter employees organized to demand their employer ban trump. quote, there is a lot of employee advocacy happening sad one twitter employee. twitter executives banned the former president even though key staffers said he had not incited violence in his final tweets. liz? elizabeth: mike emanuel, thanks so much. joining us now, incoming gop chair of house oversight, look who is here, congressman james comer. congressman, great to see you again, merry christmas, happy holidays. what is your reaction to that story? twitter is censoring u.s. politics and other politicians but not genocidal dictators in the rest of the world? >> that is more bad news about twitter. people will argue twitter is a private company they could do whatever they want.

normally i would agree with that, the problem facebook and twitter have they have special liability protections that other media companies don't have. now there is evidence that they knew very well what they were doing wasn't based on their own rules and guidelines. they were essentially censoring conservatives, censoring conservative politicians and censoring conservative speech that will be a big issue with this republican majority starting in january. they were under radar for congress about big tech reforms. i think will be final nail in their coffin with respect to getting reforms that will probably cost them their liability protection so people can sue them in the future if they ever do anything like this again. elizabeth: that is a big deal again. if they lose their liability shield from the federal government. house gop leader kevin mccarthy, he is vowing to subpoena the 51, as many as he can u.s. intelligence agents who claimed without evidence that the hunter biden laptop story

was russian disinformation. the new twitter files, congressman, revealed twitter met with the fbi, homeland security, and the office of director of national intelligence on weekly basis on disinformation. that likely included the hunter biden laptop story before the 2020 election. what do you say to all of that, congressman? >> i'm very concerned about that. because this is where we have the government playing an active role in surpassing free speech. that is not what this country was founded on. that is not what the founding fathers envisioned when they created this great democracy and this building where we're standing where we have free debate, we abide, take an oath to the constitution. this is something that the oversight committee will be very interested in, which government employees were involved in suppressing conservative speech because when you get to the laptop story the fbi already had the laptop for a year, liz. so they knew darn well that everything on that laptop was legitimate. everything on that laptop was

factual. that was hunter biden's laptop. the fbi knew that yet they're going to twitter and facebook according to mark zuckerberg, this sure looks like russian disinformation to me. i'm sure they are going to go in their defense, well, we didn't come out to say it was russian disinformation. what were you do if you were a social media company and a the fbi, other government agencies rolled into your office every week, oh, that sure looks like russian disinformation. you will not post the story. that is what happened. these government officials need to be held accountable. the government should never play a role suppressing free speech. elizabeth: they put out the narrative before the senate homeland security and senate finance report, september in 2020 this was russian disinformation. nancy pelosi, adam schiff, charles schumer. watch then white house press secretary jen saki in july last year yeah, the white house was red flagging problematic posts on social media to censor.

watch. >> can you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in information -- has the information been in touch with any of these companies? >> sure. first we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team, given as dr. murthy conveyed this is specifically misinformation concerning the pandemic. in terms of actions, alex, we're taking or working to take from the federal government we increased disinformation research and tracking within the surgeon general's office. we're flagging problematic posts for facebook that spread this disinformation. elizabeth: that is elon musk saying next round of twitter bombshells will be about censorship. we have you can in muck saying wait a second, twitter fell down on the job stopping child exploitation on twitter as

they're focusing on everything else? >> this is another black eye for the biden administration. they were using our tax dollars to create these disinformation boards, these disinformation czars that were telling social media companies and we know mainstream media companies what they can print, they can't print this is wrong. unconstitutional. they need to be held accountable. elizabeth: pew research say nine in 10 social media control the news. they get news from a smartphone most of the time. it musk had not bought twitter this still would be happening. but twitter would still be denying their censorship. they were blaming it on the algorithms when it was twitter officials doing it. now it is exposed they want to believe the practice was understood, the story nothing burger non-revelation. your final word. >> god bless elon musk. he is righting a wrong. i thought the best solution to

twitter and facebook would be a private sector solution. we see that with elon musk coming in trying to preserve transparency and righting a wrong at twitter. elizabeth: congressman comer, merry chris max. happy holidays. we'll stay on the story. this story coming up, twitter censored a anti-shutdown scientist from stanford university the very same day he joined twitter. now we'll stay on this story, elon musk teasing a new round of twitter bombshells showing how twitter censored information about the pandemic on an even larger scale. and this transportation secretary pete buttigieg caught flying around the country on private jets funded by you, the taxpayers to lecture you about climate change. grover norquist, he is the president for americans for tax reform. he is on "the evening edit" next. ♪

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elizabeth: democrats are in the final homestretch before they lose totaled control of the house. they are cramming in as much lame duck spending as fast as they can even though inflation white hot at a 40-year high. fox news correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill with more. chad. reporter: liz, buying time. that is what lawmakers aim to do to avoid a government shut down later this week. bipartisan negotiators made progress on a long-term omnibus bill to run the government through next september but to

get there the sides need to okay an interim bill, that gives them time until next week. a omnibus bill is the preferred path by democrats. democrats can put their mark on government funding through next year. the military prefers a longer bill that helps with planning. >> we may still have a shot at assembling a full year funding bill that will give our military commanders certainty they need to invest, plan and stay competitive with rivals like china. if our democratic colleagues can't accept those realities the option will be a short-term bipartisan funding bill into early next year. reporter: house gop says it want as short-term bill that would force a new gop majority to fund the government immediately next year. it is unclear if the republican-led house can pass much next year with its narrow majority. liz? elizabeth: chad pergram, thanks so much, good to see you. welcome to the show grover

norquist. your reaction to that story? >> on the long-term versus short-term spending? elizabeth: yeah, go ahead. >> you just got to come up with the best deal you can. depend as lot on what the president still has the ability to veto. democrats still run the house and senate. mitch mcconnell will, he can filibuster so he has some say. the house right now, republicans have none. elizabeth: got it. spending is in focus now. the supreme court agreed to hear another new challenge to the president's contentious 400 billion-dollar student loan bailout. it is brought by student loan borrowers who got knocked out of being eligible because their student loans are held by commercial banks, not the government. where do you think the supreme court comes down on this? >> well it is not clear at all that the president has the legitimate constitutional power to give away government property, hundreds of billions of dollars to people and nancy pelosi was telling her

members in the house just a year ago there is no constitutional ability to do this, trying to tell them, cool your jets. we can't do this. it would take a vote in the house and senate. stop saying the president can do it. it is not true. i think the president decided, president biden, before the election to just announce it and perhaps by some votes with people, oh, goodie i got, 10, $20,000 i didn't have before, cheerfully vote for him. now he bought those votes. it goes to the courts. probably isn't constitutional and won't be allowed to -- elizabeth: voted for something that is not going to happen. this story, why is transportation secretary pete buttigieg flying around the u.s. on polluting private faa jets paid for by u.s. taxpayers to lecture americans about climate children, do more government spending when he could do skype or zoom? taxpayers pay for him to fly to

las vegas, florida, new hampshire. many of these states are swing states to talk about more government spending. why can't he just skype or zoom? >> well, you're acting as if he was one of the peasants and you get it wrong. he is marie antoinette telling the peasants let them eat cake, explaining to people if you can't afford the high cost of gasoline, you should buy an electric car for $100,000. he really is treating the american people as if they were peasants and he is the aristocracy. you're not allowed to fly on private jets, he is. we saw this with john kerry. we saw this with al gore. people who live in washington, who live off the taxpayer dollar, feel entitled to your money, what are you doing whining? they need to live comfortably. it is a lot of work to run other peoples lives to tell them what to do, tell them how little energy they should use and they should be comfortable while they're pushing us around. elizabeth: trump's hhs secretary

tom price had to resign after it was revealed he was taking dozens of these private jet flights funded by the faa, excuse me taxpayer via the faa house oversight investigated senior trump officials for doing it but not the biden white house? it just doesn't seem right, grover final word. >> those are republicans. it is not acceptable for republicans to act like aristocrats. democrats are allowed to. elizabeth: elaine chao investigated too. they stay on the story. nearly 20 flights on private u.s. faa jets paid for by taxpayers when he could skype or zoom. grover norquist. have a merry christmas. shaking your head. you're still upset about this don't stay upset for holidays. come back soon. >> he is better than us. you have to understand that. elizabeth: we understand that. we hear you, thank you. a ticking time bomb. look at this story. the white house today trying to dial down, downplay the largest

caravan in u.s. history crossing the border right as title 42, that trump border policy ends next week. also staying on this story, twitter's elon musk he is talking about letting in stanford scientists to look at twitter files. this scientist found out he was censored the day he joined twitter. musk is indicating a new round of twitter bombshells, how twitter censored information about the pandemic on an even larger scale. dr. marc siegel next on "the evening edit." >> the government is in our hopes. it doesn't matter if they're sleeping in another room. they're here and they're working with social media companies to oppress our speech. that to me is no different, they are quartering in our home without our consent. ♪.

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okay, doctor, this new uproar, elon musk tweeting that his new pronounce are quote, prosecute fauci but elon musk is teasing also this, a new round of twitter bombshells about censorship about information about the pandemic. what do you think is going to come out, doctor? >> i think it is really important the position that he is taking that there is no such thing as misinformation, just a variety of opinions of the a lot of those opinions being shunned or you know, were being sidelined ended up being right and whether they were right or wrong, liz, people had a right to them. since when did twitter become the place where you rule on what is right or wrong? i have had so many nasty comments made to me on twitter and i never said they shouldn't be allowed to exist. i think it is definitely going to come out that doctors like me, by the way, who at the very beginning said, there is collateral damage here. first of all block downs were based on 1918 science from the flu from 1918 and it was never

going to work against covid. it was said it would be used only for 10 to 14 days. the next thing you know it was months and schools were closing, businesses were closing, i was yelling others were yelling this would cause collateral damage not just to go economy but the american psyche. no one who said that should have been shut down. i'm positive it will come out they were and perhaps i was. elizabeth: informed consent. let big box stores, costco, target stay open, shut down little guys like shoe stores that would never stop a pandemic. >> that's right. elizabeth: here is the story, dr. fauci faced intense backlash on origins of the virus. he bashed the idea it leaked from a virus. now he is saying it may have come out of that, denying that he did anything to fund dangerous lethal supervirus research where viruses are credited out of laboratories. it is called gain of function.

watch dr. fauci in 2013, talk about yes, funding this research. watch. >> first of all questions have come up about the concern of the danger of people that you fund. niaid, nih, certainly cdc, only funds and conducts gain of function research on h5n1 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses for researchers who are highly trained, skilled, experienced, and adequately regulated. the concern was that the products or information that were generated by these experiments might be used by others in a way that could harm society. either carelessly in an unregulated fashion, by inexperienced people, or even by deliberate misuse. but i believe the people who feel that they shouldn't be conducted are in the minority. but the bottom line is gain and loss of function research is

critical to understanding disease pathogen sis, microbial resistance and host responses as well as developing better techniques of surveillance, vaccines and therapeutics. elizabeth: okay, he has said in "the washington post" the benefits outweigh the risks of this research, dr.. he also said and testified before the senate last year that he did not keep track of this dangerous supervirus research in places like china. so he was, claims that there was adequately regulated in that sound bite when it was not. >> well, liz, look, there was an international consortium of scientists that developed to look into research where you look to see what the potential of a virus was. i have a problem with that and i am not alone because as you just hinted, you cannot know what is going on behind closed doors in china, even if you think you know the scientists you certainly don't know the chinese communist party.

so that wide network is one problem. another problem is to say that only viruses already spreading human-to-human are ones you have to worry about i also don't agree with. when you start manipulating viruses anything can help. all hell can break loose. i think we can learn the lessons without actually doing that. elizabeth: got it. so dr. jay from stanford university finds out he was censored by twitter the very first day he joined twitter. he was with ons ford and harvard do focused shutdowns to only protect people at risk, like senior citizens. that was his plan, twitter censored all of that. they had the science on their side. nearly a million public health scientists and medical community members said yeah, do that. final word. >> i was talking about collateral damage from the beginning. collateral damage meaning if you, first of all i don't think the science worked because this virus was widely contagious.

this virus spread symptomatically. there was no reason to believe shutdowns help the economy. leave it to businesses if shutting down of businesses of value if government is spreading there. government superimposing it is a huge problem. elizabeth: dr. marc siegel, thanks for joining us, good to see you again. new plan from biden allies to try to indim date gop witnesses, even gop lawmakers to get the media report their concocted personal attack on them in order to stop the upcoming probes into the biden family making millions of dollars cashing in on joe biden's government job. we got the story. plus the white house tries to downplay this new ticking time bomb, the largest caravan in u.s. history crossing. the president getting rid of trump's title 42 policy next week. worries there will a big surge. former attorney general tom dupree next on

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elizabeth: we've got this breaking news. the bahamas attorney general just announced the arrest of disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried. this is after u.s. authorities had filed criminal charges against the former crypto billionaire accused of a massive fraud on the level of bernie madoff and enron. he was supposed to testify before house financial services tomorrow. we're going to stay on breaking developments as they come in. that is what we have right now for you. we've got this story. border officials sounded the alarm, illegals are surging to the border as the white house gets rid of trump's title 42 next week. calls from both democrats and republicans to the president to go to the border, something he has never done, he has never been there. fox news mark meredith at the white house with this report. mark? reporter: good evening, liz, the white house insists it is well aware what is going on at the southern border but several days pressure likely to build on president biden, his

administration, not to mention homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas to address what is happening the next several days. next week we see the end of title 42, the end of pandemic era policy launched by the trump administration which allowed federal government to expel migrants and limit asylum-seekers options. the concern tens of thousands of migrants will try to enter the u.s. at once. reports that the homeland security wants $3 billion to address the border. some republicans may be skeptical writing a check now. they want to make sure there are tougher border policies put in place first. as for president biden, still no plans for him to go visit the southern border. he was criticized for the trip last week to arizona. he focused on an economic event. did not tour what was happening on the southern border in that state. with so much focus on the border coming days, white house faces repeated questions what it plans to do next. liz? elizabeth: mark meredith great

reporting. look who is back with us, former assistant attorney general tom dupree. we love to have you on. the white house scrambling trying to downplay what is expected a massive surge in the border happening now, biggest border crossing in history happens now. title 42 goes away. listen to this. >> we have military troops assisting border agents doing the kind of thing that help them, our border patrol agents greater visibility what is going on at the border. elizabeth: why do you need greater visibility, tom, what is going on the border, when we know it is in a state of collapse, size of kansas crossing, a million got-aways do they have visibility on them too? >> you and i, your viewers know what is going on but i am skeptical the white house knows what is going on. if they knew what was going on, as they would adopt different policies. as title 42 will be increase of

number of border-crossers, beyond me what the biden administration plans to do that. elizabeth: we arrested the lockerbie bombing suspect. we have 380,000 encounters at all borders with the terrorists at watch list. multiple encounters. 98 caught between ports of entry. democrat local sheriff in arizona, tom, sheriff david hathaway, he is trying to stop arizona governor doug ducey deploying large shipping containers to the border wall. he says if you do that on federal land i will arrest you. why are they playing politics with border security? >> that is the thing. i just don't think they see the issue for what it is, a national security issue in many respects. i think the failure to appreciate the national security aspects of this, the fact that we need a secure border if we don't want people with ill intent, possible terrorists crossing the border we have to take policing the border, patrolling the border, securing

the border, more seriously. i don't see the administration doing that. elizabeth: tom, come back on the show when we talk more about this because this will heat up next week when title 42 goes away. we'll stay on the breaking news, bahama authorities have arrested sam bankman-fried. the u.s. authorities have filed criminal charges against sam bankman-fried. he, former disgraced ceo of ftx, multibillion-dollar fraud and the bahamas breaking news, they intend to extradite sam bankman-fried once u.s. officials request it. now sam bankman-fried was scheduled to testify in front of house financial services. we'll stay on the breaking story. we have much more show coming up. stay right there. we'll be with you right after the break. ♪ unity of like minded people ready to support you when you need it most? christian health care ministries is an organization with over 40 years of trusted care who understands the importance of family.

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elizabeth: back with us now, new york post columnist jon levine. he's been all over the hunter biden story. jon, happy holidays. let's get your reaction to this, biden's allies now claim they're going to try to intimidate even gop lawmakers with perm attacks they want the -- personal attacks they want the media to dig up dirt on lawmakers. watch this. >> it's bull, but this is an offensive posture that a we're

taking here. now, we're calling it facts paris. we're going to go on offensive, we're going to expose some of the republicans on the committee? sure, we are. >> don't think mig i did was exceptional, i was just standing up for our constitution and first amendment. it ises wrong to censor newspapers, it is wrong to censor journalists. look, "the new york post" hasn't written a kind thing about me in my six years in congress. they're a conservative point of view paper, but that doesn't mean that you can stop publishing their pieces or articles or incorrect sor their journalists from sharing stories. elizabeth: what do you think of -- that was david brock who started media matters. he's going to go after gop lawmakers in even hillary adviser neera tanden once allegedly said i hope hillary understands how crazy david brock is. now he's going to go after gop lawmakers? >> i mean, the clear goal is just to shove so much junk into the atmosphere and so much

debris that it takes away from the actual story. so now they're going to be putting out opposition research dumps about which senators in congress cheat on their spelling tests in second grade or god knows what to distract people from the story which is hunter biden's criminality and the extent to which his father was involved in that criminality. so, i mean, david brock -- and media matters, which was founded by david brock, is just such a compulsively dishonest organization. they just take out of context clips they see on television and completely distort them to people, and they use it to pursue very parent san ends. obviously -- partisan ends. obviously, it's their constitutional right, but it's so unhelpful, it's so poisonous to the information space and dialogue, and it is misinformation. elizabeth: and it's a nonprofit, it's tax-exempt built on taxpayer's nickel to go after people who oppose democrats or want to tell the truth about what's going on. now they're even talking about

the defamation lawsuits and talking about the digging up dirt on tony if bobulinski. -- tony bobulinski. he's a navy veteran. do you think this is going to really work with the american people? >> well, you know, unfortunately mud slinging, if people wouldn't sling are mulled if it didn't -- mud if it didn't work, and i do think there is a real danger of the ecosystem getting muddied if people start throwing mud, and they're going to throw unrepresented stuff -- unrelated stuff at these people because they can't discredit them on the facts. i would like to see hunter biden go ons more, speak about some of the questions that have been raised in our reporting. i'd like him to do more interviews and answer some questions and say his side of the story. that would be the offense i'd like to see from hunter biden. i don't think that's what they have planned though. elizabeth: got it. we really appreciate it, jon levine. okay, we're staying on this story, the bahama authorities have arrested sam bankman fried on criminal charges. this is after u.s. authorities

filed those charges. here's the story, bahama wants to extradite sam bankman-fried. he's the disgraced founder of ftx, the bankrupt clip to currency exchange -- cryptocurrency exchange that lost tens of billions of dollars of investor money. 4 billion in loans were given out by sam bankman i fried to his cronies. he took a billion dollars for himself. he blew more than $120 million on luxury properties in the bahamas including a $16 million property for his parents, stanford university law professors. they're saying what's going on here could bankrupt them, that's a report coming in. we're going to stay on this story, the arrest of sam bankman fried, tomorrow for you. thank you so much for watching. you've been watching "the evening edit." we hope you have a her rely christmas, happy holidays and a good evening. that stay with us again tomorrow night. kennedy: it could be the most important energy if discovery in