guess your dog got shipped to saudi arabia by mistake. this happened true to go h story to madison miller and her rescue pup, blue bell. if you ever lost your bag these things happen but can you imagine losing your pet. after an hour the airline able to confirm that blue bell was in saudi with photographic evidence of it. it took three days to get her home. when she got there, it was not a happy reunion. blue bell was terrified. she tried to run. she is terrified whatever happened on her journey. she we are a family friendly show. i am getting my dog this weekend. i hate flying. this friday night my pup and i will stay close to home this christmas season. that does it for us. "the evening edit" starts right now. >> top news tonight. the president of ukraine will address congress next hour. the president promises more

money. we have a big fight in congress with no checks and balances on that. congress' new big bang spending bill it will not fully read but you will have to pay for. with us tonight congressman kat cammack and greg murphy, indiana attorney generalled to rokita, former advisor kt mcfarland. mercedes schlapp, grover norquist from americans for tax reform. joe gamaldi, fraternal order of police. the media, democrats ignoring this constitutional flight. there is a bad precedent with democrats forcing release of trump tax returns. we take the debate on. beginning after revolution. businesses are fighting back in a big way against rampant crime in san francisco, unleashed by democrats soft-on-crime policies. and this, why congress's new crack down will not work against organized retail theft rings. they're even stealing children

medicine. the fbi made it way worse in it its new answer were why it helped twitter stop hunter biden stories and differing political opinions. one said the pressure was so bad it was like dealing with a congressional committee. democrats slam the president for collapsing the border. congress spending money to fix borders in the middle east. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. merry christmas, happy holidays to all. let's get a check of your money. stocks jumping more than 1.4%. it was a broad rally on wall street. strong earnings, a rebound in consumer confidence in december. this story, ukraine's leader zelenskyy will speak in little over an hour to congress. he will ask for more money as the war with russia goes into

the second year. the white house reportedly sending patriot missiles to ukraine. hillary vaughn, she has been all over the story. she is live at the white house with more. hillary, it is good to see you. >> reporter: good good evening liz, great to see you. president biden made it cheer the is in the war with ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy for the long haul. today that means more money and more missiles. president biden: i think he is, it is important for him to know we're going to do everything in ouverything in our power to see tha since russia's war on ukraine started. he will address congress this evening in a joint meeting critically timed as congress is set to vote on another round $45 billion of ukraine aid. >> i hope the congress will approve this financial assistance for our country. this is almost 45 billion. thank you very much for the

support. every dollar. >> reporter: congress passed three packages for ukraine this year totaling 6billion dollars in aid. some republicans on capitol hill asked the billions of u.s. taxpayers dollars that are flowing to ukraine, not because they are against giving the aid. they just want an accounting of how the money is being spent. >> we're borrowing all the money. not like we've got $45 billion to send to ukraine. all that amount of money is hard to oversight. you can't keep up with it. i mean, we're discuss flushing money out. and, we don't know where it is going. >> reporter: some republicans on capitol hill, liz, pushed for the inspector general to be in charge of this money, to give a full accounting where every dime and dollar has gone. so far not everyone in congress has been on board to make that happen. liz. elizabeth: great, terrific reporting as always. hillary vaughn, thank you. joining us congresswoman kat

cammack from house homeland security and grover norquist, president of americans for tax reforms. merry christmas. ukraine is in the fight for its life. it is fighting for its freedom. it is getting $45 billion more, congresswoman. they are asking for where are the checks and balances? there was inspector general for afghanistan spending. how come we don't have one for ukraine? we don't know if it is going towards ukraine's defense. >> that is the crazy part, liz. you factor in $45 billion going to ukraine in the omnibus package that takes us up $100 billion. americans here at home demanding accountability on our southwest border. crime is rampant. historical inflation. litany of issues we're paying for at the behest of this administration, no one can tell us where this money is going? my heart breaks for the ukrainians, absolutely. every american deserves to know where every single dollar has

gone. we need that now before we pass another $47 billion to ukraine. elizabeth: what the congresswoman had, they had the special inspector general for afghanistan spending but we have a massive 4100 page big bang spending bill congress won't fully raid, americans pay for in higher taxes, higher inflation, higher interest rates grover. >> of course the bill is over 4100 pages long. there is another 2600 pages of explanation of what that means. that is where all the earmarks are stuck in, the explanation part. this is poorly done. i mean it is all thrown together. it is heart to focus on any one piece of it. almost as if it was on purpose to make it difficult to find out what was going on, who was getting what. i would strongly recommend we bring back a committee we used to have in the united states, an anti-appropriations committee. it was put in during

world war ii to recommend budget reductions. they would put it on the floor of the house and senate and billions of dollars was cut while we were fighting world war ii and into the '50s in order to save money so that you could put it into defense. they seriously reduced spending because they had a whole committee whose job where we could save money. time to bring the anti-appropriations committee back. elizabeth: that is interesting. we hear you. gop lawmakers to grover's point, congresswoman, seems like the gop is divided, has divided messaging on this new blowout government spending. watch this fight, watch. >> before the election i explained to everybody, no more blank checks for ukraine. we want to make sure where the money is spent. they're passing, trying to pass this where nobody can read it. they never moved the bills to the light of day. they never had a hearing in the process. >> let's step back to say what are the real needs of the country right now?

they're in the defense part of our expenditures, making sure that the defense department can deal with the major threats coming from russia and china, providing assistance for ukrainians, to defeat the russians. that's the number one priority of the united states right now, according to most republicans. that is sort of how we see the challenges confronting the country at the moment. i'm pretty proud of the fact that with a democratic president and a democratic house and democratic senate we were able to achieve through this omnibus spending bill essentially all of our priorities. >> the american people don't want this. they're sick and tired of it. they're paying for it through the nose with inflation, adding a trillion dollars to the deficit will simply fuel the fires that are consuming our

wages an consuming our retirement plans. elizabeth: congresswoman, why is senator mcconnell saying the number one issue facing americans is ukraine, when voter polls in the midterms that voters show number one issue economy inflation and crime on the border? your reaction? >> i can't speak for senator mcconnell but what i can tell you folks back home are concerned about making rent. they're concerned about the fact they're behind on their utility bills. more than $16 billion is owed in utility bills alone. i represent a district that is rural and senior population on fixed income. concerns of my district along with many others here in the united states is issues here domestically. elizabeth: do your voters care about ukraine? >> no. everybody again, collectively we feel in our hearts this is an unjustified, unprovoked war. our hearts break for the people of ukraine but we cannot be funding both sides of this war. we just saw the biden regime release the "merchant of death"

on one hand who will be providing armss shells from north korea, drones from iran and funding the terror on that side of the russian side of the war and then simultaneously we're bankrolling the ukrainians? what is the message here? it is ridiculous. i will say this, if you have to pass something in the dead of the night at 2:00 in the morning it is not because you want people to know what is in it. it is because you're trying to hide it. 98% of all democrat earmarks t speaks volumes what is it. it is not americans priorities, it is democrats priorities. elizabeth: to what the congresswoman is saying, americans do feel for ukraine, right? terrible what is happening for ukraine. a new npr, pbs, mayor it poll, most americans six out of 10, don't have confidence that democrats and republicans will work together in a congress in a bipartisan way. americans are about to face this new 1099 reporting nightmare. that is, there is a push by senator bill hagerty and senator joe manchin, talking more and more he will become an

independent, go to that party, this 600-dollar threshold for venmo and paypal apps transactions, grover this is a reporting nightmare for americans. now there is a push to raise it to 10,000. you know what i mean? what is with all the paperwork? what are democrats doing here? >> okay. what the democrats did was say if you get $600 in the course of a year through paypal or venmo or any of the various areas, ebay, so on, that the company is going to send it to the irs that you got $600 or $700, whatever it is. you have to prove it is not income. maybe you were splitting rent. maybe sending money back and forth between family members. any number of things. or you sold an old motorcycle that cost you twice as much as what you sold it for. but unless you have the receipts for all of the things that you're selling at some point, you're going to be hit with a

note from the irs, you owe us money on this, how would you like to be audited? tens of millions of these are going out. it's a disaster. the manchin bill is not getting support now from hagerty, what they're going for instead, a one year delay of this so we can kill it next year. that is both -- elizabeth: it's a nightmare. >> two women, senators and congressman from west virginia putting that forward. elizabeth: it is unbelievable, paperwork nightmare. congresswoman cammack, grover norquist, thanks for spending time with us tonight. have a happy holiday. good to see you. >> absolutely. merry christmas. elizabeth: beginning of this new revolution, business owners san francisco, they are fighting back in a big way against rampant crime unleashed by democrats soft-on-crime policies. and, why this new crack down by congress will not work against organized retail theft rings. now even accused of stealing

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elizabeth: former president trump's tax returns, they're set to be made public after the democrat controlled house ways and means voted along party lines to release them. now fox news mark meredith is in washington with more on this story. mark? >> reporter: good evening, liz. for nearly four years house democrats tried to get ahold of former president trump's tax returns. now they got them. within day as redacted version of those returns are expected to be made public. tuesday house ways and means committee released a report much of what lawmakers already learned, specifically how much trump paid from 2015 through 2020. the report says claiming steep business losses he was often able to avoid a hefty tax bill. the amount of taxes paid varies quite a bit by year. 641,000 paid in 2015. by 2020 it appears trump didn't have to pay any federal income tax. the irs has a long-standing

policy auditing every president in office. they say irs did not examine trump's taxes until 2019. well into his term. the house republicans say this is political stunt and believe the irs is being weaponized for political purpose. >> our worry this will launch a dangerous new era, a new political background, fangly for politics, gets more divisive, more painful, i think more disheartening. >> reporter: when the returns will be officially released, no firm timeline yet. lawmakers say it is a matter of days. democrats say delay is necessary so they take steps to redact personal information like pin numbers or social security numbers tied to the return. >> terrific story, mark meredith. always terrific reporting. congressman greg murphy from house ways and means. doctor, good to see you on again. you're part of a group of gop

lawmakers that warned against setting a terrible precedent on this. why? >> because now they have a private citizen's tax returns out in the public. the issue here is these tax returns are not without any chance to clarify or explain any of the deductions or anything and what it does further is, now they're witch-hunt is complete. they did what they set out to do under the guise we want to make sure the audit process for presidents is intact. they got what they wanted. they want to put a private citizen's tax returns out for the public to see. elizabeth: this is between a constitutional right to privacy versus this irs provision that lets the ways and means and tax writing committees get tax information for legitimate legislative purposes, to assist writing tax laws. that his returns were needed to evaluate the irs's audit program for presidents. the is is required under its own rules to audit each sitting president's tax returns. i mean the d.c. court of appeals ruled this was constitutional.

the u.s. supreme court upheld it. it is really constitutional fight over privacy, sir, right? >> absolutely. there is no reason, no logical reason that a private citizen's tax returns needed to be sent out to the public, especially, especially when there is no chance of clarification or explanation. gather this, you know, the democrats said they want to look at the presidential audit process, great. i have no problem with that whatsoever but how come we didn't get obama's tax returns? how come we didn't get biden's tax returns. they were released but not audited out into the public. this is not a fair issue. this is not the way they play fair. it's a witch-hunt. they have succeeded again. elizabeth: we've got news coming in, senators tim kaine, dick durbin, democrat chris murphy, richard blumenthal say there is a high bar to prosecuting trump. that the senate democrats may be against prosecuting trump based on the criminal referral out of the january 6th committee out of the house. there is that fight too. there is this fight.

let's get more from gop lawmaker kevin brady on trump's tax return fight. watch this. >> going forward the majority chairman of the house ways and means committee and the senate finance committee will have nearly unlimited power to target and make public the tax returns of private citizens and not just private citizens, political enemies, business and labor leaders, or even the returns of supreme court justices themselves. no party in congress should have that power. no individuals in congress should have that power. it's a power to embarass, to harass, or destroy americans through disclosure of their tax returns. elizabeth: i mean is that slippery slope what kevin brady, congressman details, is that a serious threat? >> absolutely. it is absolutely a ser threat. you know here, you have a private citizen who has had his tax returns sent out to the

public. as he stated the chairman of the ways and means committee which i'm a member has ultimate authority on whose tax returns, private citizen or what, regardless of their role is exposed to the public eye. that is absolutely something that could be abused. so yes, this is a horrible slippery slope. elizabeth: republicans are saying could it lead to nancy pelosi releasing her own tax returns? there is a big problem right now inside of congress. major conflicts of interest. nancy pelosi ran out the clock on a ban on congress's stock trading in the new spending bill, despite a bipartisan push to do that. her husband does stock trading while on the job. there are all sort of angles here. trump repeatedly claimed in office his returns were under irs audits justified no saying release of returns. democrats finding he was not audited in 2017 and 2018. so there is so many angles here. it really comes down to how you

stand based on what the constitution is saying. >> sure it does but if we want the presidential audit process to be clean, pristine and efficient and correct, which i do, i absolutely do, then why are we just picking one person, the citizen now, who is obviously the target of during his entire presidency, why are we not comparing it to other presidents in the past? you can't just take something, i know scientifically as a physician, you can't just take something without a control group. we don't know what was done with previous presidents. it is absolute witch-hunt and it is tragic for our nation. elizabeth: congressman, murphy, thanks for joining us tonight. merry christmas to you. >> you too. elizabeth: this story, the fbi just put out a statement why it was helping or getting twitter rather to censor things like the hunter biden laptop story. the answer that they put forward is making the problem worse and it was so bad what was going on, twitter officials inside of twitter said dealing with the fbi pressure was like dealing

with a congressional committee. also the beginning of this revolution, business owners in san francisco fighting back in a big way against rampant crime. will it work? this new crack down by congress on retail theft organized crime. they're now even accused of stealing childrens medicine. we'll break that down, why it may not work this new crack down. joe gamaldi with us next. hey, are you ready? ♪ ♪ ah, this baby's coming. (knocking) ♪

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on this news coming in. we have got millions of americans getting set to head home for the holiday weekend. you know what? they have a massive winter storm. it is threatening travel plans. forecasters are now warning every u.s. state will be affected. gerri willis has the story at newark international airport. gerry has got it. >> reporter: the weather forecast for christmas bad, getting worse. not just a blizzard but high winds and super freezing temperatures, maybe even a "bomb cyclone." 113 million americans are expected to travel this holiday. some 7.2 million of us by air. here at newark international airport officials are telling us more people than pre-covid are going to travel, some 2% more. the airlines, already preparing for major disruptions. so far all of the majors, united, delta, american, southwest, you name it, already offering waivers for flyers on some routes. airlines are calling in all the staff they can to be ready. the busiest days will be

thursday, friday, and next tuesday. aaa is telling folks, plan ahead. listen. >> if you have a ticket planned for thursday, or friday or even saturday, the time to be prepare something now. you really don't want to wait until the last minute when your flight gets canceled or delayed to try to figure out plan b. >> reporter: bottom line hit the airlines app or web site to find out what waivers are being offered. that means no change fees. even refunds if you choose not to travel. read the fine print though on any vouchers. remember some cancellations will be proactive though. if you look outside of the window, you see blue skies, remember your flight could still get canceled. keep checking that web site. liz? elizabeth: always great reporting from gerri willis. gerri, thank you so much. stay up to date on the latest storm news, go to the fox weather app. it has great information for you. bring in joe gamaldi with the fraternal order of police.

families, joe, great to see you. families are getting together for the holidays, worried about getting sick. there are new concerns because no children's medicines due to high demand of tripledemic and gangs stealing drugs and reselling them. the white house will release out of the national stockpile, tamiflu. what is your take going on? >> people need to know how bad retail theft is. it is doubled the past couple years. it is up to 100 billion-dollar loss. there will be acts in congress making had ard to resell things. that will rearrange the chairs on the titanic. we need hard penalties for habitual offenders. no pr bonds, velvet groff, we need to know when works, throwing the book at them. they will get creative how to sell things. book these miscreants and get it

under control. elizabeth: congress talking about a new crack down to stop retail theft. you pointed out it's a 100-dollar a year problem. requiring third party sellers to show their i.d.s online but there are fake i.d.s all over the place. >> that is bandaid. they will find someone to sell the items and continue on. we have to get serious about the crime in this country. it is running completely rampant. why you see retail theft through the roof. when you don't see there is no penalty when you shoplift garbage bags full of baby formula, nyquil, everything you imagine, what do you expect people to do? they will do it over and over again and keep selling it online. elizabeth: to your point, is this a game-changer joe? we have a coalition of 135 small businesses and property owners in san francisco. they're now standing up saying give us back our sales and property taxes.

you're weak on crime democrat policies let crime and drug use get so out of control. one business told the "san francisco chronicle" they spent $300,000 a year on private security to get rid of drug dealers, people high on drugs in their neighborhood. >> good for them. good for these business owners to step up and advocate for themselves, because those woke politicians in those communities, they defunded their police departments and they abdicated their basic responsibility to the public which is to provide safety. so damn right these business owners should be asking for their money back because these politicians didn't do what they should be doing. as a result they have open-air drug markets in front of their business. they have people shooting up in front of, defecating in front of their business. if you own a business in san francisco right now would you want to pony up your tax dollars? of course not. the politicians are not doing their job. elizabeth: maybe this will take hold, catch fire what these businesses are doing. joe, you pointed this out too,

five dozen police officers killed in the line of duty this year. that's a disgrace. now we have non-profits in liberal billionaire george soros' open society foundation network spent at least $35 million on anti-police groups doing things like demanding defund the police, even funding databases to track donations to police department foundations. why are they trying to track who gave to police foundations? >> yeah. they want to track people so they ultimately intimidate them. just like some groups that george soros funded including black lives matter groups calling for lives of police officers in the streets. we had to deal with all of that rhetoric. we had 323 police officers shot already this year. officer deaths by gunfire are up by 28%. it is open season on police officers in this country and tell you just speaking for the 800,000 police officers across this country, we're sick of it. you know what? we've got president biden doing a press conference on the war in ukraine today. how about we do a press

conference on the war zones that our cities? how about the press conference on the war on cops in this country? let's talk about that. elizabeth: yoga mauldy, thank you so much. -- joe gamaldi thank you. we have hope you have a merry christmas. pleasure to have you on. thanks for joining us. this story, the white house calls tiktok, it is basically a chinese app, calling eight national security threat. white house has been using tiktok to push its agenda like inflation reduction act. we have the indiana attorney general coming up. his state is suing tiktok. also the fbi just made it worse in its new response why it helped twitter censor the hunter biden laptop story and political opinions. twitter officials say fbi pressure sure was so bad here, it was like quote, dealing with a congressional committee. former white house senior advisor mercedes schlapp joins us next on "the evening edit".

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elizabeth: okay the twitter files indicate the fbi used taxpayer money to pay twitter lot of money actually, to do things like sensor tweets all that is a first amendment violation critics say. fox news lucas tomlinson with more in washington. >> reporter: liz, the fbi says it paid twitter $3.5 million, money critics say was used to suppress information including the "new york post" hunter biden laptop story. the fbi tells fox the payments were part of routine reimbursements for twitter complying with standard legal requests. the payments were first revealed in author michael shellenberger reporting as part of the so-called twitter files, revealing a close working relationship between the fbi and the social media giant. i'm happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since october 2019 reports an associate of jim baker, in early 2021.

baker, twitter's former deputy general counsel, before that the top fbi lawyer, was fired by elon musk for his alleged role in suppressing information. in a statement to fox news the fbi says quote, the correspondence between the fbi and twitter show nothing more than examples of our traditional, long-standing and ongoing federal government and private sector engagement. it is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the american public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency. republican congressman jim comer says he wants to withhold funding to the fbi until the gop house majority can hold heres next year. >> one way we get the fbi in front of the committee really quick i, saying we're not giving you a penny until you all come down here to explain to us what this task force was, why you told twitter to suppress the hunter biden laptop story when you knew darn well it was true? >> reporter: fbi officials claim they did not provide twitter with any specific instructions

or details regarding the hunter biden laptop story. liz? elizabeth: lucas tomlinson, great reporting as always. great to see you, my friend. welcome to the white house former white house advisor mercedes schlapp. good to see you again and merry christmas. what is your reaction to that report? fbi doesn't deny they're paying that money. they say they pay other social media too. what do you think? >> merry christmas, liz. it is very disturbing to watch the lack of transparency coming out of the fbi bill. based on what we're reading about in these twitter files, it is very clear that the fbi was colluding with these twitter executives, many cases giving a classified briefing, talking about the hunter biden laptop as if it was russian misinformation. which we know is not accurate. so i think what has happened now, even based on the fbi's response, is the fact that they have more questions to answer right now and it's why you're

going to see this house of representatives with this republican majority investigate, ask the questions to the fbi of how they themselves were involved in censoring not only the story of the hunter laptop which obviously we know could have impacted the election but also censoring conservatives. it raises an enormous amount of questions which i think the fbi is responsible to answer. elizabeth: you know to your point the fbi was putting so much pressure on twitter staff to do things like censorship. this is according to twitter emails, that twitter workers said it felt like they were dealing with a quote, congressional committee. i mean the twitter files say the fbi was even asking them to sensor jokes. to your point the fbi had possession of the laptop 10 or 11 months prior to the "new york post" breaking. hadn't said a word about it. yet 80 fbi agents working with twitter to do things like sensor this as russian disinformation? >> yeah. and they would go after these,

these individuals with twitter accounts that had very low followers, number of followers or even like a billy baldwin, where you have to ask yourself what were they actually looking for? it shows how the fbi focused on what i find to be this pressure on twitter and collaborating with twitter on censoring you know, conservatives and this election conversation that was happening, but not focusing on the real threats of terrorism in our country, and things that really should be their primary focus but we've seen time and time again how the fbi political leadership in particular, how they have continued to go down these rabbit holes, for example, with the russian collusion that never happened or the steele dossier. elizabeth: yeah. >> it seems to be that their lack of judgment i think is something that is very telling. elizabeth: watch the "new york post" miranda devine on this. watch this. >> i think this is the most

illuminating of the most twitter files when it comes to the fbi infiltration and coercion of twitter, to basically censor americans. there were over a dozen former fbi employees who were embedded in twitter after the 2016 election. the same went for facebook and google and they were also cia, former cia operatives? what are they doing there? >> what i would say about any social media site is this, i fully expect and would require that leaders in that sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security. elizabeth: sorry, the vice president can't dragoon any private sector company and require them to do anything. you know the question is why was u.s. intelligence so deep inside of twitter? this comes after emails or text messages rather from peter

strzok to lisa page, saying in answer will trump win? will he become president? peter strzok saying no, no, we'll stop it that was in august of 2016. >> right. it shows how they have used the fbi to basically politicize the process which the fbi should be not involved in elections and they, it was a, what i have to raise up the question, was it a coverup? were they focused more on you know, basically protecting joe biden, protecting hunter biden than they were in allowing this important conversation and debate that needed to happen in this country about this election. elizabeth: mercedes schlapp, thanks so much for joining us. good to see you. >> thank you so much. elizabeth: even democrats now slam the president for collapsing the border. congress though is sending money to the mideast to fix its borders. white house says tiktok is a national security they but it has been using tiktok to push its agendas like the inflation reduction act. attorney general of indiana, todd rokita joins us next.

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launch two lawsuits against tiktok? >> indiana like most states has deceptive sales consumer act. it is meant to protect the american consumer. there are laws and protecting them and we're using that, not in such a novel way, not, a, a way that is usually used that is to say, look, tiktok is deceiving us by saying it's okay for 12-year-olds, 12-year-olds, to have it and, if you're a business or an adult, it's okay because they're not taking our data. neither of those two things, elizabeth is true. you think about the 12-year-olds that can get this app. it is not appropriate for them. within seconds of getting this app you can learn how to become a stripper. you can learn how to do other hued sex acts and drug and alcohol. learn how to commit suicide.

it is not appropriate but they intentionally do this because they make hundreds of billions of dollars a year, the parent company, that is controlled by the ccp, the chinese communist party off of this business model. so, we're going after them because they're deceiving consumers and every state could do the same. elizabeth: we have 14 states now total moving to ban tiktok. the federal government, the spending bill is moving to ban ticktock on government devices. josh hawley says it's a trojan horse for the communist party in china. you say it's a wolf in sheep's clothing. your final word? >> i will tell you, look, this lawsuit will go forward. i hope other states do it. the federal government is banning federal employees. bank employees are banning state employees. what all of us can do 130 million tiktok users elizabeth. there could be zero tomorrow morning if we just dump tiktok. elizabeth: attorney general rokita thanks for joining us.

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elizabeth: let's welcome to show former deputy national security adviser kt mcfarland, merry christmas, we missed it you good to see you. >> great to be with you, merry christmas to you, liz. li. elizabeth: congress' new big bang spending bill, 410 billion for advance border security in the mideast, but white house wants to get rid of title 42? what is going on. >> if is worse, sending 45 billion to ukraine because of their borders. we're not spending 10 cents on the dollar for the american border. we a are -- for administrative staff to deal with int influx of

people, the human cost is happening in united states because of fentanyl poison, we're losing more people per here in fentanyl poisoning than entire vietnam war. elizabeth: that is a lot of people, on biden's watch it will be more than 6 million border crossers apprehended at the border, that is the size of three nebraskas, up to 18,000 a day once title 42 goes away, the new spending bill. millions for nonprofits and cut funds for i.c.e. enforcement and deportation and border technology too. >> we're spending a lot of money on other things, the main function of any government throughout history is to to two things, to have a secure currency and secure borders. i'll let you talk about the

currency, but right now we to not have a secure southern border, it is an international security crisis, an economic crisis and a humanitarian crisis, and the chinese are going around the world, saying, look at those americans, they can't secure their own border, how are they a world leader, they cannot even govern themselves. elizabeth: there will be more unlawful crossings once title 42 goes away, mayor eric adams, saying it is ridiculous. they are coming from somewhere, to your point. you so talked about it year a generation after 9/11. right? there there were 98 terrorists on the watch list caught on ports of century in -- sense rein last fiscal year, how can this happen a generation after 9/11? >> it is -- maybe it's the

biden administration thinks they will be tricky and let in a lot of people who are turn out to be democrat voters, 5 or 15 years down the road, the price it is putting on american cities in particular heartland with fentanyl poisoning that is coming from china, you know if there was any country in world that was killing 70,000 americans a year, we would take that as an act of war, yet chinese are getting fentanyl across the border, drug cartels are in charge of the border, it and i real crises in america that your government fails to heed. elizabeth: got it, kt come back soon merry christmas to and you yours. >> merry christmas to you as well i am elizabeth macdonald thank you for joining us, watch us tomorrow night. >> breaking news, ukraine president zelenskyy moments from now to address a joint meeting of congress, rare honor for a foreign leader,