got $100 million to. they will not shell out that money to a story that isn't juicy? did they gin things up or leave things out? kate feels and hurt and betrayed harry would do this to you too. the pair used to be close. william and kate will not respond publicly and certainly not watching the docuseries either. look at the markets. we did close off the session lows. the dow was down 348 points. but that is going to do it for us tonight on "fox business tonight." we'll send it over to the evening edit. elizabeth: did senate democrats finally admit that trump's border policy, title 42 should stay in place to deal with biden's border crisis? it is in the senate's version of the new spending package. who in d.c. is watching your

money? d.c. has gone hog-wild. a massive and inflationary pork storm you know now have to pay for. it is for things like personal limo drivers across the federal government. critics ask why is the gop awol on all of this? with us tonight congressman dan bishop, ashley hinson, former assistant attorney general tom dupree, former trump economic advisor steve moore, "new york post" jon levine, dr. nicole saphier and doctor marc siegel. the hidden danger in the arctic blizzard it could not only knock states way below freezing temperatures it could knock out power in a growing number of regions. we've got the story. this covid fight. top white house covid advisor contradicts dr. fauci on mask mandates. hollywood is now fighting with each other. now it is not just basically shortages. it is also price gouging spreading on childrens medicine

and the controversies in the democrat's release of trump tax returns. we've got the story. hunter biden he is lawyering up in a big way. the fbi will still not comment whether it met with the biden campaign before the 2020 election as it moved to help twitter censor. more on how pro-biden donors got the national media to bury the hunter biden laptop story. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. check your money. stocks tumbling down today. the dow, the s&p, the nasdaq they wiped out this week's gains. here is what is going on. there is still fears the fed will hike rates even more aggressively because the economy grew faster than expected in the third quarter. it clocked in at 3.2%. now this story, ftx former ceo sam bankman-fried, he was

released on a shockingly high 250 million, yes, million bail bond. he awaits trial for fraud and other criminal charges. also ftx cofounder, gary wang, the head of ftx unit alameda research caroline ellison pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges. get back to capitol hill. the senate pushed a lot of pork in that new $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill. republicans call this, quote an assault on the american taxpayer. hillary vaughn has the latest on capitol hill. hillary? >> reporter: liz, the rush to get congress home for christmas means a lot of pork was stuffed into the spending bill a lot of lawmakers don't like but some had to vote for to try to avoid a government shut down. the return of so-called earmarks where lawmakers request your taxpayer dollars for pet projects in your districts are back in a big way. there are over 7,000 special spending projects in government funding bill, adding up to a

whopping $15 billion overall. spending taxpayer cash 65 million for restoration of salmon populations, bee-friendly highways 3.6 million for a michelle obama hiking trillion. 200 million for a gender equity and quality action fund. over 400,000 for equity training for teachers. and 300,000 a year for the continuous plankton recorder. >> why are we paying for all these little pet to projects when we have real problems in our country? >> reporter: there are some republicans who have cashed in on the return to pork. senator john thune and congresswoman elise stefanik among the gop who secured funding for their community projects while democrats are defending their spending. >> it's a very small percentage of the overall bill. >> reporter: each project is a small chunk of the overall 1.7 trillion dollar price tag for the government funding package but when you look at individual projects some of them

will give you stick are shock. one earmark give as california high school $4 million to build a swimming pool. liz? elizabeth: wow. hillary vaughn, that better be a nice swimming pool. hillary, thanks for your reporting as always. dan bishop, house judiciary, trump former economic advisor steve moore. merry christmastime in d.c., congressman. this pork storm is out of control. 4,000 earmarks now taxpayers have to pay for private limo services across the government. chauffeurses for the is commissioner and office of national ethics and national cemetery commission? >> it is shameful, liz, this frank condition stein process, frankenstein bill is a betrayal of the american people. this is by 18 republican voters to do this. it wouldn't have made it out of

the senate. pelosi won't have limits to do a wasteful bill like this. this is an outrage. we're spending money we don't have on things we don't need. elizabeth: steve to, the congressman's point, they will spend trillions of dollars on a bill they will not read, not hole hearings on but now they're demanding every taxpayer give details on 1099 forms to the irs about their little 600-dollar payments on phone apps like venmo or paypal, steve. >> yeah. you know i thought we would have a lesson of irs. there is additional funding for the irs. gee, i thought republicans running for congress they would not allow additional funding. now which know why want 87,000 knew irs agents. if you buy a sofa the irs will want to know about the transaction. congratulations to congressman bishop, he is one of the few heroes along with rand paul, who knows, i don't know if congressman, you made it through

the 5000 pages he knows more about the bill than anybody. one of the big outrages, most congressman and senators have no idea what is in the gill. how could they possibly? had it two or three days, when you include the appendix it is 5000 pages. we should be cutting government spending now after 4 1/2 trillion dollars worth of spending on biden. liz, many times on your show i attacked biden and attacked schumer and pelosi but this one is on republicans too. elizabeth: to steve's point, there is also this, will house democrats go for this, congressman? senate democrats agree to keep title 42 in place that comes out of krysten sinema and democrat jon tester. they keep separate amendment for title 42 until a plan in place for illegal border crossings but will the house and far left block that? >> i don't know, liz. i guess that is a problem for them. i heard the language was a

little thin in terms of what was in there. we'll see how that plays out. again, that's a minor comma on this big story of a horrendous bill. i don't know what would do -- elizabeth: sorry but the border is collapsing. it is not minor. title 42 is the last backstop to the border totally collapsing, congressman. >> i get that liz. no doubt about that look the problem is critical but their change to it is minor in the sense that they have been working on an invasion of the country without that being gone. they're after it. they won't enforce it. you know, again i'm not sure that the is fix that we need. we need a lot more border security. that is what we should be doing in the bill or in a bill next year with a continuing resolution now, rather than giving in to democrats on everything they want. elizabeth: so what the congressman just said, steve, there is $45 billion in aid for ukraine, 45 billion for ukraine. only 2/3 goes towards military activities.

something like 17 billion goes to undefined economic assistance. two billion goes towards clean energy investments in ukraine. congressman bishop has broken this down. the bill expressly forbids border protection to use funding to you know, for border security technology. so the message from washington, the border states, steve and rest of the country, you're on your own, steve. >> how in the world did any single republican vote for this piece of trash? it is so thoroughly rancid. it is basically all of biden's policies, one things republicans are saying we got aid for ukraine. we're all for ukraine, right? we're all for the freedom fighters. my god we given them tens of billions of dollars. nobody knows what happened to the money. as you said a lot of the money is not for the military to repel the invasion from russia. what happened here, i mean people need to know, republicans wanted to spend more money on defense. democrats wanted to spend more money, hundreds of billions of more on social programs. so what we ended up doing

spending more on both. it will bankrupt this country. elizabeth: by the way we've had an inspector general overseeing spending in afghanistan for a generation. it is unclear why we don't have one for ukraine. congressman, president biden, he did nearly 300 executive actions on the border in his first year outpacing trump. there is very little right now in what the gop is signing off on with the democrats and border security. this is a national crisis. watch the president of hispanic business council, he said he is so sick and tired of what democrats are doing he may become a republican. watch this. >> i voted for joe biden and i'm pleading with him to come down here and illustrate that he cares for the people of south texas. everybody here, male, female, republican, democrat, every end of the spectrum here. everybody agrees on one thing, this is a crisis and we need attention from washington. we need action from our leaders. >> would you vote for him again? >> [laughter].

we'll see. but i got, i got to tell you the democrats will make a republican out of me. elizabeth: he represents four million businesses, small businesses, congressman. to steve's point, steve's point, why did the gop cave? why did the gop go awol here on all of this? >> i can't explain it, liz. like all-americans it makes me furious, we should have the opportunity in the next congress with a republican house to get border security as we work out the fiscal picture. just horrible. elizabeth: so you spent tens of billions of ukraine, criticism, question, steve, we hear you. everybody wants ukraine to be safe and to beat russia. but there is very little accountability in what's going on, not just within ukraine, steve, but throughout this you know, big bank spending package. your final word, steve moore. >> the best way to beat ukraine is not to send tens of billions of dollars to the non-government organizations we don't know what happens to the money. very clear, the most important thing, for america to produce

more oil and gas and bankrupt russia which is what we were doing under trump. so build the pipelines, produce oil here. every barrel of oil we produce here is less money for russia for their war machine. why don't we do that liz? elizabeth: you should run the common sense party. that is an idea out there, new common sense party. congressman bishop, steve moore, merry christmas, happy holidays to you both. thanks for spending time with us. >> merry christmas. elizabeth: we'll talk about the multiple could not verys breaking out in release of trump tax returns. it is called a once in a generation winter blizzard. knocking dozens of states below freezing. fears it will knock out power, rolling blackouts. the update where the dangers are there. this big new covid fight. about reinstating mask mandates. dr. fauci says yes to masks. now the top white house covid advisor, he is on tape, basically saying dr. fauci is

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elizabeth: let's show what is going on with warnings about power outages in this massive blizzard that is now hitting the u.s. you're going to see 25 states are seeing their temperatures

drop below freezing. you're seeing warnings about power outages from oregon stretching across to vermont. you will see minnesota, illinois, kansas. we're staying on the story. it is lethal. it is dangerous, this storm. people could die in this storm. it is already dangerous now. we're seeing more than potentially 15,000 flight cancellations, massive delays happening now. we'll stay on the story and be with you on it throughout the hour. let's bring in, welcome back to the show congresswoman ashley hinson from house appropriations. congresswoman, this is a dangerous storm. what is your thought. >> absolutely it is, liz. thank you for having me on tonight. obviously my thoughts go out to all the snowplow drivers, first-responders out there on the roads keeping everyone safe for people who have to travel for the holiday season. my husband texted me a photo bringing out the big john deere

plow out. we can't control the weather but how we respond to it. energy security is such a part of this conversation. we've been ad advocating for all the above strategy across the country. the biden administration has driven in the wrong direction. it has driven all the pricein in higher. not only with energy and face a devastating situation, people are concerned will they be able to health their homes during a major winter weather event. elizabeth: that is important what you said, congressman, there is that, right? that is what is going on. everyone wants to be safe, there is fight, move on to this, covid fight wearing masks indoors. we're in a tripledemic. dr. fauci is pushing for masks. the white house covid advisor basically says dr. fauci is wrong. watch this. >> most experts believe if we make some basic investments in

indoor air quality we can reduce all respiratory infections 30, 60, 80%. the notion you can cut respiratory infections, there is no study in the world that shows masks work that well. elizabeth: no study in the world that masks work that well. that is dr. jha. >> we sent billions of dollars to states an schools to make sure they make investments in improvement in air quality, sanitation, to make places clean. we have covid-19, rsv, influenza, all the upper respiratory infections are making their way through. my son had influenza a a few weeks ago. we had this in our house too. this comes down to what you've seen with the dr. fauci and administration, they tried to for instance, keep kids out of classrooms. they worked with the bureaucrats to make sure our kids wouldn't get back learning. as a parent, every mom around the country knows their kid learns best in the classroom, not behind a screen.

they continue to conspire to make that happen. i would say to dr. fauci, be prepared, save all of your records, a republican congress will be holding you accountable, will hold all the administration people accountable for the decisions that they have made, and any misleading statements they made to the american public as far as the pandemic is concerned. elizabeth: congresswoman, there is also a fight breaking out in hollywood. listen to actor tim robbins. he is now slamming the far least for demonizing, attacking anyone who had doubts about the efficacy of lockdowns of safety of covid-19 vaccines. we're seeing side-effects. watch tim robbins on russell brand's podcast. watch this. >> i was masking everywhere, keeping social distance. so i was adhering to the requests made of me and i'm, i felt you know, angry at people that didn't do that. we turned into tribal, angry,

vengeful people and, i, i don't think that's something that is sustainable for the earth. that we start demonizing people that don't agree with our particular health policies and turn them into monsters, turn them into pariahs. say that they don't deserve hospital bed. it turned into you should [bleep] die because you have not complied. that's incredibly dangerous. >> your reaction, congresswoman? >> yeah. it is very clear that the pandemic and the policies coming out of the administration have divided our country. i think the best way we move forward again is with accountability. china lied, people died as a result of their actions. we need to hold china accountable. it is really about making sure we're asking those questions. the american people have been divided as a result of this. the way out of it is through

bipartisanship, balance, asking important questions. that is the way we try to move forward as a country. >> there are issues, people feel bullied out there, terribly bullied. even if they had a question, this is about informed consent but a top-down bullying right? watch actor sean penn. he says people who are unvax -- unvaccinated are criminal felons. >> i think unwillingness to engage in a curl it of common sense. at this point it seems criminal to me actually. i really feel that if someone chooses not to be vaccinated, that they should choose to stay home, not go to work, not have a job. this is, as long as we're all paying for these streets we got to ride safely on. elizabeth: i'm not sure if he is getting the mem mope out there in hollywood, but congresswoman, nine fda researchers just came out with a study saying yes, there is a risk of pulmonary embolism with mrna vaccines in

senior citizens. pfizer and moderna are now doing testing about side-effects like myocarditis from the vaccines. if you raise those issues, if you listen to people like sean penn, you should be thrown in jail. this is covid bullying. >> i agree with you. i think the biggest thing here we want this to be your choice. it should be your choice whether or not you get the vaccine or not. i think it was such a victory for us, in the ndaa get the vaccine requirement for our troops taken out. this is about accountability. we'll continue to ask those questions, liz, hold this administration accountable and make sure we're moving our country forward, and this does not happen again. elizabeth: congresswoman hinson, merry christmas to you. have a happy holidays. >> thank you. elizabeth: hunter biden is lawyererring up in a big way. they will not comment, the fbi whether they met with the biden campaign before the 2020 election. they are not disavowing that

they give information about hunter biden before the election. think tank by pro-biden donors that national media have to bury the hunter biden story before the 2020 election. multiple controversies breaking out in the democrats release of trump tax returns. we have former trump assistant attorney any general tom dupree next

waiting. sometimes it's just inevitable. but if you're over 50 or live with a chronic condition, waiting could be deadly. because conditions like heart disease or diabetes raise your risk of serious illness or death from untreated covid. and if you don't get treatment within days, you may not be able to get treatment. so, got covid symptoms? get tested and get treated right away. it can't wait. elizabeth: joining us now former deputy assistant attorney

general, he is tom dupree. good to see you again. merry christmas and hop holidays to you. >> her criminal merry christmas, liz. elizabeth: why do you come down on the release of trump tax returns? >> the never-ending saga of trump's tax returns is coming to an end or at least the end is in sight. this has been a years long pursuit, multiple forums prying out the tax returns to donald trump. the returns will become public in next 48 hours or so. elizabeth: now it is leaking out. media quoting anonymous tax lawyers saying dozens of dubious deductions, private jet expenses, charitable deductions that look doubtful. payments to the former president's children. nearly $127 million of writeoffs for five years tied to an entity that didn't appear to be selling anything. this coverage that he paid no income tax last year as president. he took no salary for 3 1/2

years. he made $11 million in interest from investments. he had big losses from his real estate businesses. congress wrote laws allowing him to do that, right? >> yeah. look, there is nothing illegal about taking deductions. you're entitled to minimize the taxes through all legal means. what is interesting about this situation, liz, putting tax returns out publicly, they're basically going to be crowdsourcing an audit, where you can imagine a all sorts of tax professionals and people will look over the former president's return with a fine-tooth comb, saying should he have taken this deduction? should he recognized this business loss? this may be start of debate that will play out over the weeks and months ahead as everyone scrutinizes what is in those returns. elizabeth: msnbc their whole mo have niche of country, corner of country that only wants to talk about trump. everyone knows the capital riots were awful and never happen again. they will live on that for

years. all of biden's talk paying your fair share, touting medicare, from 2017 to 2018 he and the first lady avoided paying an estimated half a million dollars in medicare payroll and obamacare taxes on more than $13 million in income they got. they housed that in s corporation tax shelters instead of reporting that as wage income, tom. obama-biden's budget plan tried to get rid of the saks same loophole that biden exploited. watch biden here, watch this. president biden: pay your fair share. pay your fair share. time to be patriotic, time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get america out of the rut. i'm not calling these guys un-american. they're sound, patriotic americans. i don't want to hear anybody play that game with me. elizabeth: hear more of the bullying rhetoric. they did use s-corporations to

shelter their income, from books speeches. theysheltered half a million dos in income. is that paying fair share. >> eliminating a loophole, promising to do everything in your power to eliminate but at the same time taking advantage of it yourself. elizabeth: tom dupree good to see you again. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: this is important. not just shortage of childrens medicine there is price gouging on drugs for children and also pain relievers. also hunter biden lawyers up in a big way in advance of gop house probes. plus the fbi now will not comment on whether it met with the biden campaign before the 2020 election. also this story, a think tank backed by pro-joe biden donors showed the national media how to bury the hunter biden laptop story. jon levine from the "new york post," he is here next on "the evening edit".

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elizabeth: reports that hunter biden hired high-powered lawyer abby lowell to deal with the house doj probe. he was the lawyer for clinton and lawyer for john men des, jared kushner and ivanka trump. mike emanuel is in washington with more on the twitter files. mike? >> reporter: liz, good evening. an interesting component of the most recent twitter file release, the money aspect, millions of dollars from journalist michael mike shellenberger that is correct the twitter was paid millions of dollars for the fbi staff time. $3 million since october 2019 reports an associate of jim baker in early 2021. baker is twitter's former deputy

general counsel. fbi officials tell fox these are reasonable costs and expenses associated with their response to a legal process for complying with legal requests in a standard procedure. house oversight republican says he would like to ask fbi officials those questions and more under oath. >> they can't come and lie to congress and i think they're going to be able to ask the questions that need to be asked and not allow them to do their wordsmithing on these important issues. >> reporter: on the hunter biden laptop story late in the 2020 presidential campaign fbi officials tell fox we did not discuss or provide instruction regarding hunter biden's laptop or associated media coverage. on allegations that the fbi in back channel communications with twitter suppressed or spiked the hunter biden laptop story the response from these fbi officials is we did not request anything of the sort. fbi officials would not answer if they had any communication with the biden campaign in the fall of 2020.

liz? elizabeth: great reporting as always, from mike emanuel. good to see you. welcome back to the show from the "new york post" he is jon levine. jon, it is great to see you, jon and happy holidays, happy hanukkah to you. jon you heard that story. so the fbi will not comment whether they met with the biden campaign before the 2020 election? today it will not disavow passing any information to twitter about hunter biden. what do you think of these new developments? >> well i mean it just goes to show with all of the new information we're receiving with the twitter files, the story is still very, very incomplete. we don't know what facebook, what the fbi was saying to other fbi agents or their interagency n campaign. elon musk has not taken over these entities. the only way we get to the bottom of this is a congressional hearing next year. elizabeth: critics say twitter

is a private company, allowed to do what it wants, that understates billions of twitter users use twitter for information. twitter around get federal government protection from third party lawsuits. the twitter files show that fbi officials worked with former fbi around intelligence officials employed at twitter to bury the "new york post" hunter biden laptop story. the media didn't cover it. npr at the sometime said it was," non-story, waste of time. twitter files twitter worked with fbi running meetings at the aspen institute funded by joe biden donors to how the media shaped the hunter biden story. twitter media, npr, facebook showed up. >> what you see from the as penn institute meeting, it was consistent effort by the fbi to

prime the pump, complicity from major news organizations that there was a major hunter biden story when i remind everyone the fbi knew about the hunter hard drive, they had it since 2019. the hard drive repairman gave them a copy. they put outfalls narrative about russian disinformation because they knew it wasn't true to kill the story before it came out because. elizabeth: they cohave ought then indicated. pushed a storyline from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer it was russian disinformation. they sabotaged chuck grassley and ron johnson senate report in 2020. the fbi meets with them and their teams. then leaks that they met to the media to basically say, oh, this is russian disinformation. there is still no statement from former president obama, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer on what, the fact that nbc, cbs, cnn, "new york times" and "washington post" authenticated parts much of the hunter biden

laptop, how the biden family was cashing in on biden's government job in places like china, russia, kazakhstan and more. >> right. it is important to remember that during this period where he is running around in china and ukraine making millions and millions of dollars hunter biden didn't produce anything. he didn't really sell anything. he didn't really have any business. he didn't manufacture anything. only thing he was selling was access to his father. and that was something that generated millions of dollars. we need to know you know, what promises were made to get that access, how successful was that access. is the president compromised today. elizabeth: the issue too, jon, we don't know this angle of the story. so you go to china. you bring your phone. china's telecoms are known to have military intelligence and spies inside there. they could easily hack a government official's phone. they could hack hunter biden's phone. that is a national security risk. final word, jon? >> it is absolutely a national security risk. i will remind you at the time he

was running all these schemes he was an active drug and alcohol abuser. according to his own memoir, snorting parmesan cheese off the floor thinking it was cocaine. it he would be incredibly susceptible to any number of schemes from the chinese government to compromise him, get access to his phone. it is all a very disturbing situation. elizabeth: jon levine, good to have you back on. good to see you. >> thank you. >> these reports coming in, health and border officials in multiple border states and beyond, they say the biden administration abandoning u.s. citizens amid the biden border collapse. it is not about shortages but also price gouging on children's medicine and pain relievers. we've got dr. nicole saphier next on "the evening edit". peopu 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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flu medicine. also pain relief medicine. so far this flu season the cdc says we've got more than 150,000 hospitalizations and 9300 deaths. now lydia hu has more on the story. lydia? >> reporter: good evening, liz. the biden administration announced plans to tap into the strategic national stockpile for doses of prescription flu medication but some are saying that is just a bandaid on the problem. i want to show you the situation at a pharmacy in midtown manhattan. up here the shelf that would store children's fever reducers and pain relievers is totally empty. we're running thin on other cold medications and cough suppressants for adults. the pharmacist is telling me he is running low on prescription amoxicillin and flu medication. he has not seen shortages like this in his entire 20 year career. >> this is actually the tip of the iceberg. we seem to be failing our children. we seem to kick the problem down

the road and we are down the road, at the end of the road now. we need to do something to protect our future, our children's future. >> reporter: the biden administration blamed surging demand for medication. cases of flu spiked the first week of decent according to the cdc. roughly 150,000 people have been hospitalized this year. now the administration is releasing prescription flu medication from the strategic national stockpile. states can request the flu medicine but the administration is not saying how many doses will be made available. and this pharmacist questions just how helpful this release will be saying, it will not offer quick or sustained help to the supply. meanwhile the maker of tamiflu tells us it does have the supply to meet current needs but comes as senator chuck schumer is calling on the fda to consider importing medications. it does seem this back and forth plays out it is leaving parents in the cross-hairs of trying to

find medication they need this holiday season. back to you. elizabeth: great reporting as always, lydia hu. thank you so much. let's bring in dr. nicole saphier. always a pleasure to see you too. merry christmas, happy holidays. your reaction to that report? parents across the nation growing number of states see spot shortages and price gouging. what do you say to this. >> this is important to highlight this is not the first time we've seen these kind of supply chain shortages. we saw them during covid. people were hoarding a lot of childrens medications. we've seen this in last few decades, supply issues, hoarding, bad flu seasons we had before. i believe the pharmacist it is great to tap in to get more tamiflu seeing a pretty early flu season but i don't think the release from the stockpile of tamiflu will actually alleviate some of what is happening right now. the good news, liz, we're seeing flu numbers about, rsv numbers,

the two major viruses circulating right now, those numbers are starting to go down. we're seeing decrease numbers of hospitalizations. covid numbers are way down this year compared to last this time of year. people don't hoard the medications. there are children, who are adults need medications. they need to have access to medications. please don't go out to buy the medications because you're afraid of it. the majority of people with flu and rsv can be managed at home with hydration and cooling baths and popsicles please again, really urge people don't hoard the medications unless you truly need them. >> you make a good point about the supply chain. a lot of elements, the chemicals in our drugs come from china and china has been up and down in lockdowns, right? when you see, what would you tell, we hear your advice there about what not to do but you know, if a parent has a child and looking like the child is getting sick, we know that amazon prohibit the sellers from you know, price gouging but one

website we're seeing a two-pack of children's tylenol for $35. typically it is $8 a box. a box of infantile noll, jaw-dropping 238 bucks. that is $238 more than the typical price. parents are tout there scared when they see stories like this. what do you tell them? >> absolutely. price gouging is disgusting and those people should be head accountable for it. the united states we're at forefront for developing new medications. our achilles' heel we depend on other countries to manufacture a third of the generics. because china did things wong the last few years we will see supply chain shortages. what i tell parents, it is important to talk to pediatricians. often times they have samples. if you have a child at home with fever. you know your child better than anyone else if they're not keeping fluids down, having

difficulty breathing they probably need to go to the hospital. if they have a low grade fever, otherwise mild flu symptoms you can have comfort care at home. stay in communication with your pediatrician that is the best advice i can offer. i tell you if you happen to see one bottle of tylenol or bun bottle of motrin's children, don't supplement the adult for your kids. never a good idea. consider buying it. i have at least one at home just in case. elizabeth: got it. dr. sapphire. jackie: thanks for joining us. this story, we're hearing it from california, all the border states, texas and beyond, border around health officials say the white house is not caring about u.s. citizens and border states as biden has collapsed the border. dr. marc siegel next up to talk about his op-ed that talks much about this. the doctor is ahead on d "the evening edit"oc. without another pill upsetting my stomach, i get powerful, effective and safe relief. salonpas. it's good medicine.

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elizabeth: we have been tracking story for you, border states keep saying they are paying a big cost for president's border crisis, now they are bracing for when last backstop to ramp up illegal immigration title 42 goes away, grady trimble is in border state of arizona, with more. reporter: good evening this highway is one of the main human and drug smuggling

corridors here. we have seen people arrested for both here this week, owner of this auto repair shop said that high-speed chases have ended here. and he has got migrants vandalizing his property and sleeping in customer's cars. >> i'm fearful what will happen at nighttime. when we go to bed. law enforcement is over taxed. they are spending so much time trying to keep the corridors safe, keep the highways stay. repo officials tells us that large group of migrants, tie up border patrol there. allowing the cartel to smuggle across the border in these areas. another update here. the biden administration has successfully blocked governor doug doocy's attempt to prevent illegal drugs and migrants from crossing the border agreeing

to stop building the makeshift wall out of shipping containers, biden administration had sued the state of arizona claiming that the state was trespassing on federal land and harming the environment. elizabeth: joining us now dr. marc siegel. you wrote an op-ed, what is your take? your motivation is to prediction public -- protect public health of u.s. citizencitizen migrants and government workers. >> i don't think this is a debate. there is a public health matter. title 42 traces back to public health services act from 1944, that gives director of cdc the right to suspend entry of individuals into u.s. to protect public health. guess what? biden administration extended the pandemic. they said it is still going

on. still a public meet merge, right. >> there goes title 42, when robert redfield brought this in place, he named the flu as one of the reasons not just covid. and the detention centers were overrun. with people back then, they still are. 10 to 20 times more people than the dede decent -- decent cs can handle. you have rsv and flu and covid. all of this in close quarters spreads easily, you have dehydrated people, people that can get sec from water, injured people, and hospitals will get to overwhelmed. i talked with a physician, he said everyone is worried in texas, you heard from texas. texas is worried about the

numbers. >> what are you most worried about? what is your chief concern? >> is the custom and border protection agents, they are not up to this degree of onslaught of sick people and the hospitals are not either, i think it will be a disaster from people getting sick and spreading it in local communities. there is the issue of illegal immigration itself, but from a public health point of view, it is huge. elizabeth: dr. marc siegel, good to see you. >> i am elizabeth macdonald, you have been watching "the evening edit," join us tomorrow night and merry christmas and happy holidays. kennedy: he ho, ho, hey, welcome to special opened so episode of best hour of our sleigh. some the best moments of the year wrapped