♪. brian: well some good news to end your tuesday. a new cancer vaccine from moderna combined with a merck cancer drug is showing breakthrough results in preventing recurrences of melanoma and could ward off other types of cancer as well. that is great. in case you missed the headline of the hour, another great thing, "the big money show" with jackie deangelis, taylor riggs and myself premiers on fox business, january 23rd at 1:00 p.m. eastern time. i hope you can join us. it will be a great show. that does it for us on this great show, "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: okay, the hot d.c. debate, it is happening now, lawmakers are asking about the timing of the arrest of sam bankman-fried. was he a flight risk or was it done just in time to stop him

from testifying about his massive fraud at ftx? how he bought d.c. power and influence and gave stolen investor money to both democrats and the gop. with us senators john thune, ron johnson, congressman french hill, michael cloud, dr. marty makary, jennifer seay is advocate against school shutdowns, anthony d'esposito. the president touting inflation numbers. inflation is up 14% since he took office. the white house slams attacks on dr. fauci but we've got the receipts on that fight and did twitter censor peaceful protests against pandemic lockdowns? plus twitter gets rid of its safety board. we'll explain why. and a former top twitter executive flees his home due to threats. the reports coming in on that. elon musk goes after a big obama official who claimed the

hunter biden laptop story was russian disinformation. we have a new poll, a majority says they would have voted differently in 2020 if they knew about that story. the former loud done county virginia, student superintendent indicted over his alleged coverup of sexual assaults in public schools. remember when "the new york times" dismissed all of that as right-wing politics, no there there? i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. let's get a check of your money. look at this stocks ending in the green. inflation came in cooler than expected at 7.1%. still pretty high. it easing up. fears of recession and bigger interest rate hikes from the federal reserve. a half-point increase may come tomorrow. now ftx ceo sam bankman-fried denied bail. a bahama judge says he is a flight risk. he has been hit with a slew of criminal charges over massive

fraud at his collapsed crypto exchange ftx. kelly o'grady joins us live in new york with more. kelly, this is quite a day. reporter: my goodness, you are aren't kidding liz. just one of these charges we're learning could land him in jail for decades. from federal prosecutors we're learning if he is convicted on all the accounts he could end up in jail for 115 years. that indictment got unsealed today so i want to bring up the charges so we can take a look. the crypto king is facing eight counts ranging from wire fraud, conspiracy, committing securities fraud to violating campaign finance law. i got off a phone with a lead witness in the madoff case. he says the conspiracy to commit wire fraud on lenders we could see some coconspiracy tort named soon. we should be onlook out for that. the big question is on the timing of these charges. he was supposed to testify before the house financial services committee today and face intense questioning. instead he was at a bahamian court hearing. the house committee instead

heard shocking revelations from new ceo, john j. ray iii complete lack of controls, misuse of customer funds. prosecutors safe the charges were drawn up last wednesday and not filed until seal on friday. it is true sbf did not agree to testify until the end of last week but there is a lot of speculation from critics how convenient the arrest timing on the hearings eve that he didn't have to answer intense questioning on funding source of those political donations. kind of interesting, liz. we'll find out, right? elizabeth: he could have been on the record under oath. that information that he said under oath could have been used in the case against him. interesting story. kelly we'll stay on the story with you. good to see you. joining us from senate finance, he is senator john thune. senator, a pleasure having you on. you are the senate republican whip. senators critics say this ftx story is woke.

invest use money to go woke for political purposes. higher esg scores than exxonmobil, and was a fraud. sam bankman-fried made esg talking a dumb. what do you make of all this. >> to me, what we're learning about what a danger the esg agenda is. you have all these big investment firms in this country and you've got an administration a government basically using government power through financial and securities regulators to pressure investors not to invest in certain sectors of our economy, namely oil and gas. but the thing we worry about in the future they start coming after agriculture, farms and ranchers. livestock producers who raise livestock they emit methane. so it doesn't fit within the esg parameters what is approved investment for these liberal, woke, you know companies that

are participating in this agenda. so i think this is a really dangerous thing. i think it is something we got to shine more of a light on, expose and help the american people understand what is really at risk here. elizabeth: sam bankman-fried was proponent, so was his parents about effective altruism. we have to ask you this, what is with the timing of the administration arresting bankman-fried a day before his hearing in congress? shouldn't they get him under oath, use statements under oath for the case against him? this fraud has been out there for a month. is it because he was a flight risk or about to embarass d.c.? >> i don't know the answer with respect to the timing of all that. hopefully we know more about that. yes, we need to get answers on this. it would have been nice under oath. we had him testify in the past under various committees up here. since this all happened he has a light of light i think he could shine actually what happened here, what the facts were as we

learn more about it. hopefully irrespective what happened today, eventually that opportunity will avail itself although it gets harder under the system of justice. elizabeth: senator, are you hearing politicians in d.c. breathing a sigh of relief he did not testify. >> i have not had people say that directly, liz. i think that again, you can question the material -- timing. it is fair to do that. maybe he was a flight risk, that is it what they suggested. the department of justice steps they took today certainly interesting in the timing. >> doj said he gave illegal campaign donations using quote stolen investor money. the ftx bankruptcy could claw that back. 73 million. 40 million went to democrats. he bought influence. he packed his board with d.c. insiders. former d.c. commissioners to lobby, weaken government oversight, weaken controls right at same time he had serrie accounting and zero control over

investor money inside of ftx. no record-keeping whatsoever. how did this guy get to have such power in washington, d.c. when he was playing with investor money like it was a videogame? >> it is remarkable that he was able to get as far as he did absent any of the controls you just mentioned. he has a company where he was using proprietary funds, investor funds mixed in with his own, financing all the crazy activities some which were political in nature, obviously the things he was doing, this is a lesson for everybody in this esg to try to satisfy a government in washington, d.c., liberal policy makers that he was doing the right things with respect to the green agenda and climate. that is what the esg agenda is all about. it's a dangerous agenda for the country because it the attacks core industries that are so important to our livelihood in this country, be they energy, food production. that is clearly where obviously

he invested a lot of resources trying to satisfy people here in washington, d.c. elizabeth: senator, let's take a listen to what happened in congress today. watch this. >> sam bankman-fried or should i say inmate 14372, had one purpose in all of his efforts here in congress. was a well-known figure. only one wearing shorts. his one purpose was to keep the sec out of crypto. >> the ftx group was unusual in the sense that i've done probably a dozen large-scale bankruptcies over my career including enron of course. everyone of those entities had some financial problem or another. they have some characteristics that are in common. this one is unusual. it is unusual in the sense that literally you know there is no

record-keeping whatsoever. >> i think everybody loved the exciting idea of a politically progressive, smart, entrepreneur who was going to reimagine capitalism. i'm glad to see it is finally unraveled. >> what you have is a crypto casino. elizabeth: crypto casino? he gave out $4 billion in loans to cronies including a billion bucks for himself. ftx spent reported 256 million bucks on three luxury properties in bahamas. there is probe whether his parents were in on it. they were stanford university professors. reportedly his father was getting paid by ftx. he was going in and out of bahamas. the son bought parents 16 million-dollar luxury home in the bahamas. the parents are involved in effective altruism. this is stealing investor money to make yourself look like you're the good guys. >> right, and again he needs to be held accountable for that. again i think the, this sort of

woke capitalism that all of sudden permeated this country, especially when financial services regulators, securities regulators, used their powers to punish people, penalize people, investors companies, who invest in certain sectors or industries, because those satisfy the woke agenda, that is really dangerous thing. when you start, a free market economy where a government is stepping on the scales, essentially influencing a lot of market decisions you will end up with really bad outcomes. this is example of that. elizabeth: this is stealing investor money for those political purposes, right? >> yeah. >> this is a flat-out case of how bad woke capitalism is. this is not telling investors maybe their 401(k) money, retirement money is being used for maybe returns they won't get, they should be getting. that's the story, right, senator, final word? >> it is about investors ultimately and protecting

investors. he didn't do it. i have no idea how he got away with this as long as he did except there is no regulation in that market right now but even more regulated investors and companies who control enormous apartments of through index funds of people's investment in this country are making a lot of these decisions predicated upon that woke agenda. that is flat wrong for the country. elizabeth: that is stealing for ftx what they did. senator john thune, thank you so much. come back soon. it's a pleasure having you on. merry christmas and happy holidays. >> thank you. elizabeth: good to see you. the white house really angry on attacks over dr. fauci. we have got the receipts on that and this new analysis coming into twitter, censor peaceful protests against pandemic lockdowns. plus the president's victory lap on better inflation numbers today. inflation is still up nearly 14% since he took office. he is now warning you're not going to see no let-up, there will be no let-up on until next year. congressman french hill next on

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savings, household budgets. gerri willis is in new york with more on the story. gerri. reporter: liz, president biden touting today's inflation numbers down slightly but still at decades highs. he says we won't be back to normal until the end of next year. listen. >> you say when you expect prices to get back to normal, mr. president? president biden: i hope by the end of next year or much closer. i can't make that prediction. i'm convinced they're not going up. reporter: even so year-over-year energy prices are still up 13.1%. much of that pain felled by households using fuel oil which is up 65% year-over-year. food price inflation easing in november to a gain of just half a percent but still higher by 10.6% year-over-year. eggs up 49%, milk and coffee up nearly 15%. the big question, what impact will the inflation data have on

the federal reserve as it contemplate as 50 point rate hike? for context 7.1% is well above the fed's target of 2%. liz, back to you. elizabeth: great reporting jump a food journalist. joining us congressman french hill from house financial services. congressman, you were at the ftx hearing today. what struck you about what is going on? >> this is the 14th anniversary liz, of the indictments against bernie madoff and what struck me this hearing how much more extensive and damaging this ftx crisis is than anything that happened during the madoff period. there are over one million possible creditors of ftx including the federal government. elizabeth: so you know why didn't we get him on, why didn't he testify today? was there questions, did you feel like that there was questions that should be asked about the arrest of this guy a day before the hearing?

>> you bet. we had an excellent hearing with john ray, who has been appointed to be the ceo of ftx and try to clean up on aisle 45 there. what a mess it is. we need to have sam bankman-fried come before the committee under oath and answer questions and we'll be much more successful in asking those questions because now we have the benefit of the southern district of new york, the sec, and the ray testimony today. elizabeth: now the bahamas want to hold him without bail. he denied bail because he is flight risk. he says he only has 250 million, $250,000 to put up for bail. all he is left with. this is bankrupt company. move on to the inflation story. we've got breaking news, he is now seen exiting the courthouse in the bahamas. there will be a fight between the bahamas and the u.s. who has jurisdiction over this. there are three dozen properties he also purchased with about, about $240 million worth of

investor money. the bahamas want those properties back, big fight. congressman, get your take on this. the president again accused of being misleading today, topspinning the new inflation report. watch this. president biden: wages have gone up more than prices have gone up. wages have gone up more than prices have gone up. elizabeth: no. it's wrong. real wages are still down, wages after inflation are still down. they have dropped at the fastest pace in 40 years. it is like you go into overdrive, like fighting with a flock of seagulls over your head when you see the president talk, there will be a gaffe, some topspin that is wrong. >> inflation is 3 1/2 times the fed's target. inflation has been stubborn. it has been caused by biden's every spending and his regulatory constraints on energetic lar i and he is wrong about particularly our families on seniors on fixed income are

losing in the biden inflation. even if you got a good raise this year or a social security increase, even that, you're not keeping up with the biden inflation where we're paying much higher prices than when he took office, in the teens. 7.1% is nothing to brag about today. elizabeth: congressman, we have the hot story coming in. senator joe manchin is not closing the door entirely to leaving the democrat party. he is telling reporters, he doesn't know what the future is going to bring, after senator sinema infuriated democrats ditching the party to become independent. democrats got 51 seats in the senate after warnock's win in georgia. this is a rocky situation from this story. listen to the hot takes what is going on with senators sinema, contradictory and very entertaining. watch this. >> does she have the guts to take on powerful special interests? >> no. she doesn't. she is a corporate democrat who has in fact along with

senator manchin sabotaged enormously important legislation. >> back when she was a democrat sinema was laser-focused on her number one priority, undermining democrats. she blocked biden's initial "build back better" proposal, blocked democratic attempts to increase taxes on corporate america and she torpedoed raising federal minimum wages with a curtsy and a thumbs down. elizabeth: first of all what does bernie sanders care if sinema is an independent? bernie sanders is an independent too. she could caucus with him and angus king. by the way, stephen colbert, senator sinema voted with biden 93% of the time including inflation control act, gun control, gay marriage. she wants to keep in place a senate filibuster. they cannot ram through tax hikes, blowout spending they want on just 51 votes. >> exactly. bernie sanders is a committed

socialist. krysten sinema is progressive left of politician whether she is independent or democrat. they're two birds of the same feather. elizabeth: we'll see bullying of oh so tolerant left on the story especially manchin leaves. no indication he will. quite aer to go. congressman hill, merry christmas to you. >> great to be with you. >> same here. elon musk, he is going after former cia director john brennan who helped shut down the hunter biden lapper to story as russian disinformation. a brand new poll, majority would have voted differently in 2020 if they knew about the story. the white house is furious over attacks on dr. fauci but we've got the receipts. and did twitter censor peaceful protests against pandemic lockdowns? congressman michael cloud and dr. marty makary tackle it all on "the evening edit" next. d pe, and i just didn't feel well.

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elizabeth: joining us from house oversight, congressman michael cloud, dr. marty makary back with us. great to have you both of you gentlemen on. merry christmas to you both. good to see you. the white house press secretary upset about elon musk criticizing dr. fauci. let's watch this. >> these attacks, these personal attacks that we have been seeing are dangerous on dr. fauci and other public health professionals as well. they are disgusting and they are divorced from reality.

elizabeth: congressman, are they divorced from reality? >> well, divorced from reality would have been what twitter had been doing throughout the last couple of years in not letting the truth get out, not letting other opinions get out about what is going on. seems like the white house press secretary might be devoid of reality. elizabeth: what the congressman is saying, doctor, listen to this sound. critics have been saying we should cut dr. fauci some slack. that the pandemic was a rapidly changing environment. this is the issue. he has been denying funding lethal research to create superviruses in laboratories around the world for drugs and vaccines. want your reaction to the sound we've got on dr. fauci admitting yeah he did fund this. watch him deny and downplay his role in shutdowns. watch this. >> 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. >> you gave them money. you said don't do gain of function research. >> correct. >> they said we won't. >> correct. >> you have no way of knowing whether they did or not except you trust them, is that right? >> well, we generally always trust the grantee to do what they say. you look at the result. >> have you ever had a grantee lie to you? >> i cannot guarranty a grantee has not lied to us. >> i didn't shut down anything. i recommended to the president that we shut the country down. elizabeth: doctor, you see that, right? should we be cutting him slack? he is saying that you know, it is trust but not verify with this research to create dangerous pathogens that can kill a lot of people.

he admitted he is not tracking the funding. he is not tracking if it is adequately regulated. he is not tracking what he is doing with u.s. taxpayer money that could trigger in the next pandemic. >> well normally he is very careful with his words. now some of his words are coming back to really hurt him and what many people want closure around is the fact that we were funding a lab that could have been the origin, the source of this entire pandemic, the biggest liability case in the history of the world, why doesn't he come out and just condemn all gain of function research around the world in perpetuity once and for all? that is what people are looking for. they want some closure. elizabeth: so they want closure what do you think of this, congressman cloud? >> you know we go back to fauci virtually declaring himself science and the last word on these sorts of things when there are a lot of opinions out there who were muzzled that didn't get to talk about the other ideas revolving around what might actually be happening and the

most plausible explanation to most people that maybe this came from the lab that does the research in the area that the thing came from, you know, he was all saying no, that can't be true, can't be possible you know and it just doesn't make any sense. he is going back on a lot of the things he said. he has flipped flop on the issue throughout the whole covid experience we had to live through. hard to take his credibility for anything right now. elizabeth: the other thing vaccine researcher dr. robert malone has been reinstated on twitter after being banned over alleged covid misinformation. we have this, florida governor ron desantis, breaking news, he is asking a grand jury to investigate whether floridians were misled by covid vaccine firms and makers there. he plans to petition the state supreme court for a a grand jury to investigate how the shots were rolled out and how they were marketed. there are worries about side-effects. final word, dr. marty makary. >> if you look where the nih

spent their money, there is no interest in vaccine related complications. this overly cozy relationship where regulators are basically promoting the vaccine, we've seen that with fda commissioner. so that is what people are very concerned about. what is going on we don't know about? where at post-approval data that moderna and pfizer were supposed to turn in after they were authorized to give those vaccines? they were supposed to turn in safety data after it is in the market. they have not done so. elizabeth: safety data that would show what? >> show vaccine related complications in the real world after it was authorized. they were supposed to do follow up studies to turn in the data. they have not done so or been compliant. elizabeth: they have not turned into the u.s. government the data on side-effects from their own vaccines when we have been hearing reports of myocarditis and problems with people having heart problems and more from the vaccines? so they haven't even turned in that data. >> that's right. that's right. they're under agreement, under a well-known understanding with

the fda to turn in what they call a post-authorization market data. elizabeth: you know, these companies don't want to be accused after coverup, right? they should turn in the data asap. we day serve to see it. we deserve to have informed consent. we're not cheap. we're not supposed to be following what anybody tells us. congressman cloud, dr. makary, thank you for that information it. we're staying on this story. the former loudoun county superintendent indicted on charges of histologied coverup of sexual assaults in public schools. "the new york times" claimed this was right-wing politics, no there there. you looking at the father whose daughter was sexually assaulted. he was arrested. elon musk is going after former cia director john brennan, who helped shut down the hunter biden laptop. new pole says voters would have voted differently in 2020 if they knew about that story.

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show from senate homeland security, he is senator ron johnson. senator merry christmas to you. thanks for coming on. >> merry christmas to you and your audience as well, elizabeth. elizabeth: thank you so much. if elon musk did not buy twitter we would not have heard about all the stories what was going on behind the scenes. now, senator, your reaction to this, twitter shut down its safety board. it was not doing enough to stop child exploitation. that is what elon musk says. twitter former head of public safety, yoel roth fleece his home when he reveals inappropriate tweets about child exploitation. what do you say about that. >> i don't want anybody to flee their home. what i say about the twitter files, as important as the release of them are, as interesting as the information they are revealing, for example, that the same mr. roth, i talked

about how the fbi was basically peddling the tale of you know, hack and leak operations and actually mentioning hunter biden. why i find that so interesting i was subject to both senator grassley and i were subject to the undermining of our investigation from a whole host of characters. seen core democrat officials here in washington, d.c., our ranking members were undermining our investigation, spoiled our ability to get subpoenaed information from one witness, he wanted to provide it voluntarily but undernon-disclosure agreement. we got unsolicited briefing from the fbi. it solidifies the fact that the fbi laying the groundwork. they had the computer in 2019. they warnerred mr. mack isaac, the computer shop repairman, people who don't talk about things generally don't get hurt.

that is a veiled threat. they were laying the groundwork in case mr. mac isaac came forward and our report, prompted mr. mac isaac felt safe enough to go public with that laptop. this is much larger story. the unmining, sabotage of that story was occurring probably almost as soon as the fbi got it. certainly all throughout 2020. many actors, many corrupt players. elizabeth: elon musk tweeting john brennan you live in a glass house. 51 u.s. intelligence experts claimed that the evidence of hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation. a new poll said they would have voted differently if they knew the laptop story was real. the election would have played out differently if they knew the truth. americans believe the fbi and intelligence misled and blocked the public knowing about this laptop story. joe biden served the in the

senate since nixon. always described himself as poorest men in congress, heavily indebted. now he is worth at least nine million. "the washington post" is reporting that hunter biden is ramping up a political attack team of lawyers to do opposition research and dig up dirt against even republican lawmakers and people like hunter biden's former business partner tony bobulinski. you're take on this. they're talking defamation suits too. >> they will find if they look into me, choir boy. i'm a boycott. there is nothing to dig up on me. elizabeth: but isn't that wrong to go after lawmakers? isn't that intimidation? >> everything the bidens have done is wrong. they're grifters, they are a corrupt family. they profited off of the family name. so this has been obvious to me for years. it has been obvious to the mainstream media but the mainstream media wanted to defeat donald trump. so they decided joe biden and they covered up for him. going back to john brennan that letter, isn't that amazing how quick they assemble the 51

former intelligence officials to write a letter saying the laptop had all the earmarks of a russian information operation. elizabeth, that letter was an information operation. it interfered in our election to a far greater extent anything russia and china ever could hope to imagine. this is a huge scandal. but as always a scandal of this basically being ignored by the mainstream media. elizabeth: will the new gop majority in the house, you're hearing whether they will probe for offshore bank accounts, the biden family was using. they were famous using you pointed out in your senate homeland security and senate finance report they may have had extensive use of off-balance sheet shell companies. it is striking that hunter biden based his rosemont seneca firm in georgetown, close to vice presidential offs. didn't put it in new york city. this within a year of the obama white house. within a year, hunter was meeting with top finance people in china, signing

multibillion-dollar equity deals bankrolled by the bank of china connected to the communist party. that was going on at the same time, senator, your final word? >> listen, senator grassley and i, we based our report on treasury reports. we have since gotten the actual bank documents. a serious investigation has full subpoena power would certainly trace outflows from those hunter biden accounts into possibly the big guy's account. that is still to be determined. >> got it. we'll stay on the story. senator johnson, thanks for joining us again. good to see you. >> merry christmas. elizabeth: same here. new york city cops are fleeing in the largest amounts seen in a generation as "washington post" that biden's border crisis is flooding the heartland and main street america with fentanyl. the former loudoun county school superintendent indicted over his alleged coverup of sexual assaults of public schools in virginia. remember when "the new york times" said there was no there there? this was just right-wing

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elizabeth: okay. the former loudoun county school superintendent, school ziegler, he has been indicted over his alleged coverup of two sexual assault cases in his public school district in virginia. this is ground zero of the school board parents nationwide fight against toxic schools. fox news's mark meredith in washington with the latest. mark? reporter: liz, for the last year parents in loudoun county, virginia, demanded someone held accountable for the way sexual assaults were dealt with within the school system. after a grand jury investigation wrapped up the ebbs superintendent of loudon county is facing charges. faces three misdemeanors. a school spokesperson is facing

a felony perjury charge this stems from an incident that began in may of 2021. when a male student allegedly sod sodomized a female student in a bathroom. he was transferred to toward high school. not long after he assaulted another girl choking her in an empty classroom. he defended himself in a comment to "the washington post." he is quoted as saying i am disappointed that an attorney general controlled secret one-sided process which never once sought my testimony made such false and irresponsible accusations. much more action is expected within coming weeks. liz? elizabeth: thank you, mark meredith. great journalism as always. look who back with us. we love former levi's executive, jennifer seay, a straight-shooter, advocate cast against school shutdowns and censorship. what do you make of this story?

you remember "the new york times" downplayed the sexual assault as politics the right's big lie, no there there? it feels like there is journalistic malpractice on this story. >> oh, would you. i didn't expect this question. i think the press in so many ways have further democratic party narratives at the expense of everyday citizens and i think this is perhaps another case of that because it does appear there is real violence. elizabeth: yeah. this superintendent of schools in virginia, jennifer, you know was, basically saying there was no assault, right? then he is emailing the board, the school board, you know, saying yeah, there was an assault. that is what reports are coming in. so parents are terrified that what, about what could happen to their children in schools, jennifer. >> yeah, i mean first of all we wanted our children to be able to go to school. that has been, we were afraid of

what was happening if our kids were home for too long, isolation, depression, et cetera. now what we're seeing there is so much violence in the schools. the kids are not all right. they have suffered so much in the last few years. we just want our kids to be able to go to school safely and learn. elizabeth: the other thing too, "the federalist" is tracking this. whether twitter censored content and information questioning covid lockdowns and peaceful demonstrations in the u.s. and canada including the "freedom convoy" of truckers who protested in ottawa. twitter banned their account saying they were inciting say lens but the canadian government also froze their bank accounts. so what do you make of that story, jennifer? final word. >> i think it is clear that twitter and the government were colluding to censor anyone who pushed back on these authoritarian policies led by the democrats. everyday citizens rights were taken away. we weren't allowed to protest.

we weren't allowed to speak up. we weren't allowed to congregate. it is un-american. we all be concerned about this. elizabeth: they let stay on twitter information about riots of 2020 killed reportedly 40 people an damaged billions of dollars of property. your final word? >> yeah. those protests were somehow allowed because they furthered a democratic approved narrative. protests for lockdowns were not allowed. in fact announcements my family posted in may of 2020 announcing lockdowns were removed. elizabeth: okay. you know, it is really striking how distorted and manipulated the national conversation has been. jennifer seay thank you so much. we'll have you on soon. merry christmas. new york police department exodus, number 67 cops leaving in the largest in generation. that just as the washington post says the fentanyl crisis is hitting the heartland

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elizabeth: we've got a big surge of illegal immigrants moving across the southern border right as we speak. now, the white house is getting rid of trump's title 42 border policy next week. el paso is really getting hit hard. jackie jacqui heinrich has more at the white house. >> reporter: liz, yesterday the president's national security adviser said that they

are still determining what systems exactly are going to be in place when title 42 expires 8 days from now. they promised that we would hear new information in the coming days. we're told homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas is in el paso to decompress a surge of migrants, a preview of what we might see in the coming days with reports as many as 47,000 waiting to get in. democratic lawmakers are making a last ditch plea for biden to extend the policy. karine jean-pierre said the administration's under court order to lift the title by december 21st, refusing to weigh in on calls from congress to extend the deadline. liz? elizabeth: thank you so much for your great reporting, jacqui heinrich. always terrific. let's welcome back to the show new york congressman-elect anthony december poe see toe. gavin newsom is now speaking out about the open border. of he's saying the immigration

system is, quote, about to break as title 42 goes away next week. what do you say? >> listen, i think we've seen it over the last weekend especially, i mean, the videos coming from our southern border, over 2500 people this weekend, there was just a tweet from tony gonzalez who represents that area down there that new chain-link fence has been e -- i erected. i don't think a chain-link fence is going to make the difference. i think we need to tighten our borders, and we need to give our customs and border patrol agents the resources that they need -- elizabeth: well, sorry, it feels like -- i hate interrupting, it feels like we're at a tipping point. because the washington post is reporting drug cartels have reached deep into main street america and the heartland. we have to to get to this, new york city's now seeing 3,000 cops have left so far this year. that the's 42% more than --

that's 42% more than the prior year. so this is happening right as crime is surging, and they're not even sticking around to get their pensions, sir. they're leaving before they even get their pensions, you know, credited to them. >> yeah. i mean, we're going to see close to 4,000 if not more nypd police officers leaving the force year, and i think it's very telling. when you have people that have the, are generation allen on the job, people that i worked with, people that i consider family and friends, people who love the job and they consider it a front row seat to the greatest show on earth, when they're telling their loved ones not to join our department, you mow that things are headed in the wrong direction. when we have a mayor who's more focused on how cops are utilizing their cell phones instead of giving them the resources they need, there's a real problem. elizabeth: i mean, we're seeing it nationwide. it's not just new york city. >> yeah. well, i mean, i think hat democrats and their agenda have created a climate across this

nation where law enforcement are treated like second class citizens, and we're putting criminals ahead of law-abiding citizens, and we're literally handcuffing the police to the point where they can't do their job. in a place like -- elizabeth: yeah, go ahead. finish your thought, sorry. >> in a place like new york city, we have a mayor who, you know, claims to be a member of, former member of the new york city police department, but he's making decisions not based on a cop, more based on someone who was just employed by the new york city police department. elizabeth: got it. anthony, merry christmas to you. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. thank you so much for watching. happy holidays, happy hanukkah. have a good evening. ♪ ♪ kennedy: you can't jail me, i'm depressed and hairy, e vegan. that's crypto low life sam bankman-fried told a judge in the bahamas.

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