david: well the happiest place on earth becoming not so family friendly. walt disney word in from and disneyland in florida, issuing warnings to parkgoers after being on best behavior after experiencing upticks in fights at the park. they are adding courtesy sections to the no before you go section on the websites, reminding guests inappropriate behavior toward other guests or cast members will be result in being kicked off the properties. too bad, it is happening everywhere. that does it on "fox business tonight." "the evening edit" starts right now. have a great night everybody. ♪. james: new tonight, ongoing holiday turbulence. lawmakers calling for accountability as another 2300 southwest airlines flights are

canceled today, leaving thousands of americans wondering if they will make it home by the new year. the cdc slamming china for a lack of transparency over covid statistics. can you imagine the communist regime is lying about covid?y en impose new rules on travelers coming into the country. joining us tonight, members of congress, claudia tenney, darrell issa, french hill. texas attorney general ken paxton. joe gamaldi from the interest personal order of police. former facebook analyst kara frederick, "wall street journal" air travel reporter allison cider. customs and bored he border protection there have been 600 migrant encounters since october alone. democrats downplaying the national security threat. twitter ceo elon musk calling for users to follow the science at least, revealing former workers at the social media giant had a quote, fauci fan

club. i'm james freeman in for elizabeth mcdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. james: we begin with a look at your money. the good news, stocks ending sharply higher in the next to last trading session of 2022. also the white house announcing it will require travelers from china to test negative for covid-19 prior to arrival in the u.s. this as every 2300 southwest flights have been canceled today amid ongoing holiday travel nightmare. now the airline claims normal operations could be coming as soon as tomorrow. lydia hu has the latest in new york. lydia? >> reporter: good evening, james. southwest says it is planning to resume normal operations tomorrow after only operating 1/3 of its scheduled flights since tuesday while it worked to rebuild in the wake of a

operational meltdown. the news comes own the heels of a video apology by the airline chief commercial officer, the second apology from the company. >> you know by now all the flexibility and planning we put in place to deal with the storm just wasn't enough so we extended flexibility for self-service travel changes through january 2nd. >> reporter: as the airline looks to get back to the skies, the chorus of voices from this travel nightmare is getting louder. 38 attorneys general wrote to congressional leaders warning of lax oversight from regulators at the department of transportation led by secretary pete buttigieg. they said buttigieg's agency failed to respond to provide appropriate recourse to thousands of consumer complaints about airline customer service. and they added americans are just justify fly frustrated

federal government agencies charged with overseeing airline consumer protection are unable or unwilling to hold the airline industry accountable. as southwest returns planes to the skies, passengers flying to the u.s. from china will now need to provide proof after negative covid test taken no more than two days before flying. the lack of concern about china's transparency and recent surge of covid cases as the company drops its zero covid policy. james, back to you. >> thankthank you, lydia hu. for more on the travel nightmare and meltdown, welcome "wall street journal" reporter allison cider. you had an interesting piece in our paper, called sky solver, not skynet from the terminator flicks, but christmas vacation plans i meant to say.

>> sky solver is a system souths with uses to assign flights to pilots and flight attendants in times of disruption. it had a really hard time handling the big storm last week. that is part of what they said is, in fact the root of the problems they have had. james: it's not a total surprise. you were writing about how this has been an issue for a while, that this what used to be a small company has grown into a really huge company but somehow along the way they didn't seem to get the tech upgrade you might have expected? >> yeah. that has been something southwest has been addressing for the last several years. they said this was a system that was nearing the end of its useful life and they were making some changes to it. they had made changes in crew scheduling the last year but the overhaul doesn't seem to have come quickly enough. james: i guess for a lot of people watching this it's sort of mind-boggling. you think about big companies they spend a lot of money on lots of things.

maybe some of it not so important, public relations and what not but this seems so core to what they do, making sure pilots and planes are in the same city at the same time when they need to fly. i mean is there sort of a management lesson here? it just seems sort of mind-boggling that something so central to their business would have gone neglected so long? >> what southwest has said this system had been working well enough. it had been able to help them navigate previous disruptions, snowstorms, hurricanes, sort of more run of of the mill problems but that this particular symptom just had such a massive impact on its entire operation and was really unique for them. that said, their pilots and flight attendants have been critical of the airline's technology for a long time leading up to this, have faulted it for not investing enough. james: were regulators, institutional investors, raising

this, or was it mainly people within the company? >> i think mainly people within the company, crewmembers, employees who felt that the company needed to invest more in technology. james: okay. allison, thanks for joining us. >> thanks so much for having me. james: okay the u.s. now requiring a negative covid test for travelers coming from china and the cdc is calling out the country for lack of adequate and transparent covid information. for more on all of this, let's welcome congresswoman claudia tenney from house foreign affairs committee. congresswoman, thanks for joining us. >> great to be on. james: a lot to ask about. i guess we should start with china. this idea three-years later we'll now have a travel ban? i guess we could talk about the biden double standard given how he criticized his predecessor who did this in early 2020 but at this point beyond just being

hypocritical isn't it kind of late for containment strategy of covid-19 because it has the name because it started in 2019? >> funny how they keep going back to the trump era policies that were working like at the border among other things. so, look, china specifically the chinese communist party has been lying to the world for three years about the origins of covid. we know this has been going on but the biden administration says we don't want these people here. we have 48 hour i believe test requirement which is required in china. we've fon from the zero covid policy which is very extreme. we saw a violent crackdown on people and protesters against the zero covid policy. i was actually in taiwan during zero covid in september. it was even harsh there because obviously the shadow of the chinese communist party in taiwan as well but what's happened now, a lot of these protesters now said, look we're

fighting back not just against the covid lockdowns but for our freedom, for democracy, things we sand for and i think a lot of people saw this happening in the united states with our lockdowns that didn't work. huge high infection rate, zero covid in china didn't work. they didn't develop any natural immunities, herd immunity we talked about dismissed and banned on social media sites like twitter because of the misinformation out there. so i don't know, i think it is interesting, the biden administration all of sudden now going to this hey, we've got to be careful who we let into this country but i do agree with you, is it too late? maybe now we should still be hooking who is coming into this country because we're not doing anything at the southern border. we have people coming across with covid, with whooping cough, with mumps, measles, eradicated diseases and we're doing nothing about it. that was what title 42 was originally intended for a public

health statute. here we are, hypocritical to the biden administration enforcing policies coming in to new york city but not any of the 160 countries people derived from coming across the southern border. we have no restrictions and border policies there. who knows what the diseases are coming across the border. james: fair point. i wanted to ask you on the southwest airlines issue, it seems very straightforward it was not enough investment in technology. they want to upgrade. that is going to be i'm sure a big management effort. do you have any reason to think that, that oversight from you and your colleagues or pete buttigieg, the transportation department will speed up the upgrade that southwest needs? i understand there is need and desire in washington to do oversight. obviously this will chew up a lot of executive time, hearings, meeting with policy makers.

what do you think happens here over the next month or two with southwest? >> well i hope this has a couple of components to it. number one, what, the mistakes made by management at southwest were terrible. this conditions were terrible. they need to relook at that we certainly need to investigate. we need to look at pete buttigieg, his department and their failure to provide oversight and provide the reasonable regulations they need but i think we need to look at a third thing. what are we doing to the airline industry in terms of energy policy, making it so difficult for them to compete in the world right now especially in the united states against other airlines who don't have the same types of restrictions? i don't mean stepping around safety or bypassing safety issues. i'm talking about issues where they can actually be more safe and not be so restrictive coming to epa regulations, when it comes to regulations dealing with energy that don't make sense in terms of science? i think we need to look at that aspect of it as well because it

will affect the entire industry and their ability to be effective, productive and safe. james: to that point i don't know whether they were pressured by washington or big institutions or whether they just wanted to but it is an irony here, southwest has spent a lot of time talking about and focusing on the technology of lowering carbon emissions, which is kind of bitterly ironic if you're a customer you realize their technology couldn't get you from a to b. >> right there is so much pressure on all companies, particularly look at the airline industries they're operating with fossil fuels which have been villainized by the far left, by these climate change activists, those becoming so woke caught up in the environmental craziness there is no common sense. you will be in the flying in lech trin plane right now n my district in near erie county we are so grateful we have fossil

fuels, trying to charge our electric plows, electric cars, all things we need, god bless the national guardsmen came to help us. i'm sure they did not come in on electric cars. electtryification will not replace abundance and prosperity and safety of using fossil fuels. we can certainly lower emissions but we have to look at other alternatives. james: thank you, congresswoman. i'm not volunteering for an electric flight either. thanks for joining us. up next, twitter ceo elon musk calling for users to follow the science. isn't it about time? he reveals former workers at the social media giant had a quote, fauci fan club. customs and border protection reveal historic number of migrant encounters at the southern border since october 1sts but democrats still down playing the potential security threat. texas attorney general

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♪. james: customs and border protection saying over 600,000 migrant encounters have been recorded at the southern border since october 1st alone. this comes as border states say the biden administration has no long-term solution for this crisis. fox news's matt finn in eagle

pass, texas, with the latest details. matt. >> reporter: james over the past couple of days we've notice consist extent flow of migrant groups arriving here to the united states. we noticed something we really haven't seen before, the state of texas is bolstering its border here. these cargo containers behind me were installed shortly before christmas. over the past couple of days we watched the national guard put razor wire on top of those shipping containers and governor greg abbott's office, tells us texas is taking unprecedented action to enhance the border safety strategies. that is something we're witnessing in real time here in eagle pass and northwest in el paso where the national guard installed two miles of fencing along the border there. we have new video of jet another large smuggling bust. texas dps said 18 illegal migrants including a child were smuggled inside of a

tractor-trailer. the driver was arrested for human smuggling. everyday people are coming to the border to smuggle humans for quick cash. new footage shortly before christmas, believed to show one of mexico's most powerful cartels handing out christmas gifts in. the mexican president said not to be influenced or accept gifts from those gangs. the mexican cartels and coyotes make staggering amount of money for every head they cross into the united states. back to you. >> thank you, matt finn. for more on the crisis at the southern border, welcome texas attorney general ken paxton. thanks for joining us. totally unreasonable to expect the people of texas to pay for national security but since the white house abdicated, you're filling a vacuum kind of out of

desperation. unreasonable to ask texas but can you actually secure the border in texas and are there things that the federal government is doing to prevent you from acting on your own? >> yeah. i think we're absolutely going to have to. i applaud governor abbott doing what he is doing right now, which is putting fences up, putting those big cargo hold things. i'm all for it. anything that we have to do. clear that the biden administration is not helping but they're inviting this problem that you discussed, you reporter discussed where you have got the cartels making literally billions of dollars a year off of human trafficking. that is what this is. it is illegal, it is wrong, it is having a tremendously negative impact not just on texas but as many of my friends in the ag world like to say, all of us are border states now. it will have a negative impact going forward for millions of americans. james: okay. i want to play a comment from an

aclu lawyer on title 42 and then get your reaction. let's listen. >> you can't misuse a public health -- it was not intended to regulate the border. i also think people are overstating what is happening at the border. if you closed the border for so long of course there will be a temporary influx of people but ultimately it will even out. the federal government has more than enough resources to deal with this. >> general, this seems to be put to good purpose but as a general rule, i don't like politicians using covid as an excuse to do whatever it is they want to do. don't we have other laws? weren't there plenty of laws on the books before covid came along so we don't need to claim a public health excuse to secure the border? >> yeah. you're right about that. there are plenty of laws on the books. all of them are being ignored, not enforced by the biden administration.

immigration is basically, we have an open border, unsecured. anybody, just about anybody can cross over. so we're using whatever means we can. that includes hello issues. it is not just covid but health issues. we tried to enforce remain in mexico a loophole for asylum-seekers anybody can walk up say asylum, the biden administration says you said the magic word. now we'll release you into our country. we were trying to build a wall federally and state. all of that has been stopped by the biden administration. they forced us to use whatever means we can to protect our state and to protect our country. >> and do you see any change at all in the tone, the substance, anything coming out of the administration since the elections? republicans took the house, perhaps the president thinking i keep hoping maybe it will never happen, that he might want to lead on this issue? are you getting any kind of signal that anyone in the

white house wants to address this chaos? >> no, as a matter of fact i would say just the opposite. from day one, i feel like they have done everything they could to encourage the cartels to bring as many people to the border as they can. it is a pretty easy handoff. get them to the border. they don't have to hide anymore. it is pretty uncomplicated. magic word asylum and you're in and the biden administration made it clear to the world, get your people here, we'll make sure they get across the border. james: we have one more sound bite we wanted to play. this is a resident of el paso? >> these vacant schools preparing for sheltering they are inside of neighborhoods, residential areas. i feel that is very wrong because we don't know who these people are? >> they're kind of neglecting u.s. citizens, the residents of

el paso because we should be the number one priority as to when it comes to safety and they're not thinking about that at all. james: yeah, general, just last reaction to that. i'm, perhaps a dumb question, just the math, if you had a reasonable system where it was a secure border and more legal migration, you wouldn't have to spend all this money on facilities to house illegal migrants who have been captured or are there in holding areas, right? i mean it would actually be cheaper, i would guess? >> oh, there is no doubt. they're spending billions doing this the wrong way. they're also creating great risk for the people that you just heard talk. they're at great risk now. so are the people migrating. they're at much greater risk. nothing good about what the biden administration is doing about anyone. james: i don't understand what he gets out of this politically at this point? this is just mind-boggling. we have to leave it there,

general. appreciate you coming on, sharing your thoughts. >> thank you. james: up next small businesses paying the ultimate price as a crime wave continues battering communities across the nation. twitter ceo elon musk getting mixed responses after encouraging users to follow the science. musk revealing the former workers at the social media giant had a fauci fan club. policy center director kara frederick breaks this all down next on "the evening edit".

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♪. james: elon musk's twitter files have pulled back the curtain on the platform internal standards and collusion with government agencies. the media defending those agencies, warning musk's reputation is in danger. joining me now, heritage foundation tech policy director kara frederick. this has been really kind of amazing what we've seen in these twitter file releases, is what appears to be series of assaults on the first amendment. government agencies leaning on twitter, without often even presenting any allegation anyone broken the law, leaning on twitter to silence certain voices, seems like, people in our industry who often claim to care about the first amendment, would be exercised about this but, not really.

>> you would think. we have been saying this a very long time especially at the heritage foundation, we were reporting all these piecemeal data points of the government leaning on big tech companies shouldn't be allowed to continue to happen. yet we have the smoking gun. we have the confirmation now, and you have legacy media saying, oh this is a nothing burger when before they were clamoring for that actual evidence. they were saying they're private companies, they can do whatever they want, we have no evidence that the government was coercing or even pressuring them. now we have it and now they're curiously silent. this basically says all it needs to say about their motivations. they care about the first amendment when it protections private companies and they're saying now, there is a new strain of argument first amendment really protects big government. what about we the people, users? that is my question. james: wow, that is frightening. important to point out

violations, for example, fbi he willing twitter people making jokes on the internet are violating the terms of service if the fbi is supposed to be enforcer of twitter rules. it is not just an appalling violation of principle. it also had a real impact. we see in these recent releases the government urging twitter to suppress real scientists who were right about covid. the impact was enormous. >> this is extremely interesting to me because if you worked in big tech companies, i've done it, a lot of my colleagues have done it as well. we know when we were working there we were very concerned with real world harm and the entire justification for this misinformation, disinformation, policing was to try to prevent real world harm. they kicked donald trump off the platform of is incitement to violence. this caused real world harm. people were not made aware therapeutics they could have

used, the great barrington declaration, august scientists from harvard, oxford, stanford we need to focus on actually focused containment of virus in vulnerable populations. people were not exposed to argument because of what big tech did in with the government. james: elon musk said we shouldn't question the science. this should be a northern controversial statement. we have open society. you can question things. science questions the conventional wisdom. this is moment from dr. anthony fauci at a congressional hearing i believe. >> attacks on me are quite frankly attacks on science. james: okay. so that was appropriately on msnbc, not a congressional hearing. this idea that he is science,

questioning him and it is essence of science questioning institutions established viewpoints. >> exactly. instead of fauci as the science he should be fauci the fallible. he has been inconsistent on information he has been dispenning to the american people anyway. whether no one should wear masks. now masks are the best thing in the world. he is inconsistent himself. we need to use critical thinking. elon has the way to go. >> elon said they had a fauci fan club. she should have had a frederick fan club. fauci is retiring saturday. hope springs eternal. thanks for coming on, cara. >> thanks james. james: gop takes control of the house one is to prevent political agendas driving the allocation of your money. small business is paying the ultimate price as a crime wave continues battering communities

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james: crime running rampant in cities across the country. as we close the year small businesses are now paying the price, some forced to shut down. in san francisco this week a bakery was targeted for the sixth time. the owner saying on facebook, they took everything from our castro cafe last night. it happens over and over and nothing changes. here to tell us about it, joe gamaldi. joe, we look at cities like san francisco and you sometimes hear about big chains that are removing their stores. they can't secure them anymore. it costs too much. we don't hear as much often about the small businesses who are even less able to provide security to afford to secure their businesses but it's a

disaster for them. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean what has been allowed to happen to our urban communities and small businesses that operate there is nothing short of a catastrophe. the elected officials there that support these woke revolving door criminal justice policies which are complete nonsense completely abdicated responsibility to provide safety. that is why you're seeing a recent survey of small business owners said 47% will likely shutter their doors within the next year. it is even higher in the retail space because organized retail thefts are crushing them. retail theft will top $100 billion this year. the most disturbing part of all of this it is completely avoidable. politicians, d.a.s, here is an idea, grow a spine, do your job. we as police officers we're catching folks, putting them in jail. they let them right back out. what do you think they will do? they will do it again. james: san francisco they did replace the d.a. we've seen in a bunch of these woke west coast

cities where politicians have learned not to say defund the police anymore. are you seeing any encouraging policy turns where beyond the rhetoric, having seen this disaster, police are feeling like they can do their jobs again? >> i think you're seeing a lot more awareness from the public, putting a lot more pressure on politicians to change some of these policies. we've seen challenges in cook county in chicago against bail reform we hadn't seen before. we're seeing similar challenges in other communities. people are certainly stepping up, it is important to point out how pad it is in these communities. when these small businesses shutter is creates a vast wasteland, financial deserts, food deserts, people can't go to the corner stores. people that have means move out of the neighborhood, all that is left is underprivileged. what they have done to the you are urban communities is truly unforgivable. james: there is not much advice,

is there? if a small business owner says how can i deal with this, there will not be a serious law enforcement effort, do they have options? >> you know the advice would give them, we as police officers we're going to be there for you when you call 911. but the rest of the criminal justice system is most likely going to fail you. they are not going to put the person in jail, not hold them account possible for their actions. not doing it again. advice business owners fold up shop in the woke community. move to a community that values law and order, you're much more likely to have a successful business. james: probably good advice but sad. terrible when you have to give that advice. thank you, joe gamaldi. >> thank you. james: up next, further questions being raised about the actions of sam bankman-fried as sec complaints reveal the disgraced crypto exchange ftx diverted $200 million of customer money into two venture deals. republicans take on woke investing as the gop is set to

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james: the gop is gearing up to take control of the house next week and members of the house judiciary committee are already launching an investigation into major climate groups to find out are they violating federal antitrust laws? hillary vaughn on capitol hill with the latest. hillary? >> reporter: good evening, james. republicans say they will investigate so-called woke investing gse standards. the idea investment groups will look into climate and social impacts of an investment before putting money into an entity. lawmakers think doing that could be a violation of antitrust law. six republicans writing a letter to climate investment groups questioning them over esg policies saying this, esg at its

heart radical partisan activism masquerading as responsible corporate corporate governance. these corrosive practices may violate antitrust laws and we must be relentless investigating them. the idea was to protect investors in volatility and risk investments into the energy market but in 2022 the 10 largest gse funds posted double-digit losses, blackrock's 20 billion-dollar fund and vanguard five billion dollar fund. all underperforming lagging behind the s&p 500. republicans in the senate say esg investment hindered investment in oil and gas which causes higher prices for everyone else. >> the whole esg restrictions financing, dries up cost of financing, combine that with moratorium on producing energy on federal lands onshore and off, lack of permitting, the administration is holding up

permitting, litigation, in the only reducing supply but drive up the cost of energy. >> reporter: esg crackdown is unlikely to pass congress with democrats still controlling the senate, but does not stop the states acting with their dollars. seven states are pulling funds from blackrock over concerns they value esg over investors. james? james: thank you, hillary vaughn. joining us with reaction is congressman darrell issa from the house judiciary committee. congressman, thanks for joining us. before we get to this esg stuff, i do have to ask you the president apparently not a surprise but signed that disasterous omnibus. any thoughts as we embark on this new taxpayer spending disaster? >> well i think he should be proud of the fact that there are many billions of good, well-spent dollars out of 1.7 trillion. if you look at the downside, the downside is there are hundreds of billions of dollars of

unnecessary spending there that is in fact going to have us be in a recession and still have inflation when that shouldn't be the case. government is in fact the reason we have inflation. recession is what is being used to cure a disease caused by excess spending. you know president biden is celebrating hundreds of billions of dollars of excess that wasn't necessary and shouldn't have been in this bill. james: okay, sad news. now more sad news. sorry to be a downer on this, this esg stuff, i'm so glad hillary stuff pointed out esg funds were big losers this year, this year, not a good investment strategy. now if people want to take their money and express their values in their invests that is up to them but it looks like we have a problem with governments, state governments in many cases, we might talk about your state, and

wall street institutions pushing for political changes whether it is on climate or other issues, that the average investor may not realize that they're even funding this stuff and they don't want to? >> well you know, my state employees who rely on the revenue from the state pension which is one of the largest in the world, they assume that those fiduciaries are trying to get the greatest return for them. they're not assuming they're trying to move a political agenda. in many cases as you said earlier, as the lead-up said, we are driving up the cost of fuel and particularly the cost of fuel when it comes to the small and medium business, the people, the wildcatters who go out and get that oil, find the natural gas. big companies can usually figure out a way to get their revenue. exxon will probably take it out of cash flow but that is not true of many of the startups who will find, better more efficient

ways to get fossil fuel, quite frankly in more environmentally sensitive. those companies are finding it impossible to get any kind of financing which drives up the price of fuel and it's unfair to the pensioneer who expect his or her pension to get the most revenue it can, which means invest safely but invest wisely. >> talk about the pensioners in your state. calpers, big employee pension fund was very early on this trendy esg, environmental social governance stuff. they have not done well, partly as a result. is that going to change, or do state employees out there generally, do you think they will to rate worse returns to express their views? >> they have not had a problem yet for a simple reason. we have had a surplus coming out of covid. that allowed them to mask the

failure of calpers and calsters to raise kind of revenue they're forecasting. fairly soon they will be looking at needing a tax increase, needing to go to the taxpayers for revenue that they should have made out of a return on investment. they didn't make it. they didn't make knit a good economy. can you imagine in a bad economy what is likely to happen? james: like california needs higher taxes, like people need another reason to leave to go to texas, florida, wherever. i don't know how many of your constituents are fleeing at this moment, congressman -- >> james we have lost more people from california in the last three years than exist in alaska. pretty soon than what exists in montana. we're losing a whole state every year. james: montana looks pretty good if you're in california. >> many of them went to montana. james: thank you, congressman, appreciate it. >> thank you. james: up next further questions

being raised by the questions of sam bankman-fried as sec complaint reveal that disgraced crypto exchange ftx diverted $200 million of customer money into two venture deals. congressman french hill from the house financial services committee is next on "the evening edit." ♪

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bleak picture of them trying to recapture the assets and trace them in public records, the 8 billion dollar fraud was kept on quick books. and a aws was there b back office, that work will be hard, what i'm concerned about, what did the cftc and ftc know as ftx oflying launched, how many meetings did they have,. because john wray testified that there was no -- distinction between ftx u.s. and ftx in the bahamass which concerning. james: someone who did not testify in congress, but was supposed to, sam bankman-fried himself. he gets charged the night

before he was going to appear. do you feel like a great opportunity was lost, that you didn't get him on the record in a public hearing? >> i do. we had a good tell from john wray outlining a road map for us to look at but sam bankman-fried agreed to testify and didn't show up. the southern district of new york prismed that with their indictment -- preempted that with their entit dime, i would have thought they would want him to testify before congress under ocean to getter qualify their own line of changes, we hope we can have sam bankman-fried testify. and others in the case to get to the bottom of what happened at ftx, how it should inform us in oversight of the sec, and emerging issues okay round digital currency.

james: i don't see either doing anything through this except seeking turf and pubpublicity, disappointing, i have to give credit u.s. attorney, the charging timing of strange given that avoided the testimony on the hill, he has two convictions now or multiple counts two of sam bankman-fried's associates. looks like he has good leverage to get a case against the man himself sorry we have to go any quick reaction? >> no, i look forward to following that case, and also we can do on the hill in our over oversight responsible. >> thank you, i am james elizabeth macdonald will be back. >> sorry doesn't cut it bozo, southwest airlines once again