>> we in the last week of the memorial to a truly magnus if it figure in the world of sorts brazilian soccer legend passed away earlier this week at the age of 82 he was only player in history to have 13 world cups credited with 767 goes from 831 matches. most importantly he is credited with sparking an american interest is pocket luncheon soccer when he came f for the cosmos from 75 to exit b7. rest in peace.

>> new tonight pennsylvania state police arrested 28-year-old man in connection with the murders of four university of idaho students. officials capping off the nearly seven week manhattan revealed the latest details about the gruesome crimes that gripped her nation. joining us tonight congressman jeff van drew retired mip inspector paul morrow ceo tom smith and former ice director ron vitiello, also fox news medical contributor doctor jenness, wall street journal ipo cory in the hills joe concha americans, the 2022 report card house republicans look to ramp up probes in the administration when they take control of the house next week. meanwhile critics slamming southwest airlines for the holiday week travel disaster claiming the company prioritize investors over much-needed infrastructure improvements and dramatic new video captures the chaos at our southern border is suspected smuggler reckless driving to invade law enforcement. i am james freeman with

elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. james: we begin with a look at your money in stocks finishing the work, the worst year on wall street since the financial crisis since 2008. president biden set to return to the white house after vacation in the u.s. virgin islands already expected to face the prospect of a multiple investigation, incoming gop lighthouse with subpoena power looking to begin probes into the biden family but this administration is already standing up a roadblock for lawmakers, jacqui heinrich in christian st. croix with the latest. >> the incoming chair of the house oversight committee says the stall buys the white house a few months time before any court would enforce a subpoena

president biden golson st. croix, the white house test oversight demands from republicans into the bunker claiming that no authority when they were in the minority. >> divided the administrations a signal loud and clear were you to do everything in our ability to prevent and block your oversight. >> the request pertain to questions over the administration's handling of the southern border set now, the energy crisis, afghanistan will draw, and the origins of covid more than 150 request over the last two years which will have to be resubmitted next week. >> it's all been pertaining to taxpayer dollars, money being spent with covid money being spent in afghanistan with weapons be left behind money being spent with a different project and different agencies within the federal government. >> the white house counsel says the administration tends to work in good faith but takes the dig to political stance that would suggest house republicans might be spending more time thinking about how to get booked on headed even preparing to work together to help you american

people. >> house judiciary republicans also criticized the white house for leaking their plans to reject the committee's request before notifying members of congress. james: jacqui heinrich, joining us to discuss the biden probes and the president said review, we have congressman jeff van drew from the house homeland security, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> i'm thinking as a response to republican investigation the white house saying we're going to try to stall without complying without valid subpoenas is not the most compelling counterargument but i guess you're probably expecting a lot of stonewalling here. >> there is going to be stonewalling but we have to keep going at it and going out and going at it. you know what, america people deserve the truth and if there was nothing to worry about they would not be stonewalling they would open everything up and say take a look at it and tell me what you see there, but we know

there are relationships between the vice president when he was vice president and now president biden and other countries including china, possibly ukraine, possibly other countries as well, financial, interactions to a place with hunter and him, there is a lot of stuff that went on in there is so much we need to learn not only about the issue with hunter biden but about what is going on with dr. fauci and went to go on with dr. fauci, what is hap happened. what is china died when they lied to us about covid and they can go all the way down the line on issue after issue. what happened on twitter, what was it that conservatives were treated differently with their freedom of speech on twitter the end other folks. >> no question. >> a lot of issues that were ignored by a lot of people in my industry, joe concha from the

hill is joining us now. i want to get your reaction from you. this is white house chief of staff ron clean reviewing the alleged achievements of the biden year. >> it's been a big year at the biden harris white house, president biden delivered on his promise to get things done washington pretty got over 250 bills passed by lower prescription drug costs, they lowered healthcare premiums, the brockton energy cost they reformed gun laws for the first time in 30 years, they made in america not just a slogan but a reality a record number of manufacturing jobs, over 750,000 new manufacturing jobs right here in the usa. >> it was a good job market when the president was inaugurated, high-growth low-inflation economy, lately we've had a high inflation economy.

what does this mean as you assess the biden as it's been. >> and wrong claims world, quantity is better than quality we passed 250 bills, we lowered your energy cost that's funny i got my heating bill for the past month and i'm certain that my energy cost have gone down and i know when this president took office gases at $2.30 a gallon is still above, 23% believe it was a good year for the country while two thirds believe it was a bad year, the perception does not match mr. claims or mr. biden's reality. when you look at this 2022 inflation for the most part is above 8% we have the white house perking over this, even those 1.4% when the president took office crime has gone out of control in cities like philadelphia which set homicide record portland which set a homicide record, minneapolis, chicago minneapolis not good situations or in your sina happening from states like

california, newark and places like florida and texas. when you look at the overall report card here when you look at the border and education where our kids are falling further behind the china's and estonia's of the world you cannot give this president a good report card when it comes to looking at 2022 in accurate number how many bills have been passed. james: i've got a speaker for his doña. i'm with joe and probably a lot of your constituents that the measure of success for you and your colleagues should not be the number of bills you passed in the number of burdens you put on the american people. i want to ask you specifically about the economic burden and how washington is added to it this year, i've been cleaning to this hope that the tactics were not as big as they might've been during the biden first two years in other words 2017 try tax reform is largely still intact in terms of a competitive tax

system. i'm looking at the graphics from american tax reform, a lot of tax hikes on energy included in the inflation reduction act and also the allman everest, business expense he gets a little nerdy but i wondered how worried are you the sum total is a drag on growth next year? >> i'm real worried he's done so much unbelievable harm already, this is going to her even more, remember where we were joe laid it out, we have a good economy people that originally at the lower end of the economy gain the most, their income went up the most, people were doing well, we have the lowest level of unemployment and we have real employment not only based on numbers that were fake but numbers that were real. we had an economy that really worked. the only thing that this president can get an a in is the number of times he's flown into

delaware, the number of times is taking a vacation and the number of ice cream cones he's eaten. >> joe, all the presidents including this one want to run for reelection. if he wants to get reelected it seems like he needs a strong economy. you see any signs that the white house is going to work with mr. van drew and the other members of the republican house and do pro-growth policy? any help there. >> not much hope there at all, remember bill clinton and the shellacking he took in 1984 losing 54 seats in the house and two choices. he can continue to go to the left or work into the center with newt gingrich who is a house speaker and we had this thing called the balanced-budget amendment in a foreign concept and also he worked on welfare reform as far as clint was concerned and the era of big government is over, i cannot see this president and this administration pivoting back to the center working with

republicans for example on solving the catastrophe, humanitarian catastrophe at the border. the first two things you have to do is restart construction and reinstate remaining mexico policy, that just is not going to happen. >> thanks to both of you for joining us. flight fiasco, critics slamming southwest airlines for the holiday week travel disaster. the company prioritized investors over much-needed infrastructure improvements. a suspect into custody of the medusa for idaho students, officials copied off a nearly seven week manhunt. they reveal the latest details about the gruesome crimes that gripped our nation retired nypd inspector paul morrow will provide insight on "the evening edit" next. >> they have a first-degree murder warrant out of idaho for the suspect. so that doesn't happen overnight the task force has been working is probably for a couple weeks.

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check in on your current speed through the xfinity app or upgrade to the speed that's right for you today. james: breaking today suspect in custody for the university of idaho quadruple murder that captured the nation's attention 28-year-old bryan kohberger is facing murder charges for the killing of four university of idaho students that took place

more than six weeks ago. fox news laura ingle is live in pennsylvania where the arrest took place. what can you tell us. >> good evening this is where the suspect bryan kohberger has been brought. he is here in pennsylvania. this happened after his arrest very early in the middle of the night this morning he is in a jail that holds approximately 400 prisoners both maximum and minimum security inmates here 28-year-old bryan kohberger will spend his first night at the monroe county correctional facility tonight. he was taken into custody at 3:00 a.m. southeast of scranton, pennsylvania at a private residence known as a fugitive from justice warrant. investigators in idaho revealing little about the details of how they zoned in on bryan kohberger but they said they had enough to make arrest. >> a criminal complaint was filed yesterday in latah county charging the defendant bryan

kohberger with four counts of first-degree murder in addition to felony burglary which involves entering the residence with the intent to commit the crime of murder. >> affidavit with some details of the charges is sealed until the suspect is physically back in idaho. he is expected to be extradited after hearing this tuesday. law enforcement can confirm they recovered a white alondra and monroe county. a white alondra was the subject after the spot of the scene of the crime in idaho in the early morning hours of november 13 the four university of idaho students were murder. and today investigators were 15 minutes away from the crime scene they were raiding the suspect's home in pullman washington where he was a graduate student pursuing a phd in criminal justice at washington state. as we take a look more at some

of the documents that have been released. we know he's 28 years old he recently had a birthday and when i was looking at the date of birth it was one week after these murders so we have a lot of questions still here tonight, did he come here to celebrate his birthday, was he still in washington state was he here for the holidays, those questions are not answered but we will wait for more back to you. james: thank you laura ingle that's welcome to the show retired nypd inspector paul morrow thank you for joining us, obviously the suspect deserves the presumption of innocence like anybody else but based on what you've seen what we've learned how solid does the case against him look? >> obviously the police here have held their c cards close to the chest it was a remarkably leakfree investigation especially task force that large but there is a subtlety here the prosecutor's office filed an

affidavit that had to go in front of a judge to get probable cause so the executed the warrant in pennsylvania it sounds bureaucratic but what this means the judge bless the arrest, this is not like a summary arrest that occurs with the uniform cop that argues that they are put together in their mind what they think is a solid case they had the probable cause level, the judge agreed with that and they feel sure that this guy is involved whether if he is the only person remains to be seen. james: you been out there, you were in idaho as you survey the landscape and you look at what we do know. obviously from the police on the evidence but given the circumstances what we've learned about him as a criminal justice student what does it say to you looking at that set of facts. >> a couple of things jump out looks like the white elantra may have been a break in the case, something they have been focused on and they recovered it. another thing here the reason that that might be important it didn't get a lot of attention but behind the house there was a small parking lot and it's very

advantageous spot or a guy like this because you can look down into the second-floor and you can see a lot of the second-floor from the parking lot gives you a good advantage point we have to remind herself no matter how heinous the crime is he still innocent until proven guilty but that said the elantra being in and around the parking lot could be something that the police looked at very hard. the other thing pullman is right there i know we were focused on the university of idaho but just the way it worked out, i was out there a few times the town had gotten crowded the town of moscow the way it worked out i ended up staying in pullman. one of the things that struck me there's another school that is significantly larger than the university of idaho and i asked around when i was out there there's a lot of cross-pollination between the two schools and it turns out he was a student at the other school what his connection to the university of ido and this

house is the primary question now. >> i know a lot of parents are horrified watching the story matches. if university in idaho students but nationwide i don't know if you have any advice their kids heading back for the second semester at this point i know were still trying to figure out what exactly happened. >> you have a very salient point we walked the area out there myself and lawrence jones who is way out from in this case and we noted there are no ring cameras anywhere in the area there were other homes there, nonstudent but mostly student housing and there are no external cameras on any of the homes. it's one of those things if it were my child going away this point, we've had a lot of crimes across the country related to this in and around campuses, something that's developing is the urban areas in the country have more violent crime. i would be thinking in terms of sticking together making sure

you have a very clear invisible external camera very ostentatiously placed so it makes people think twice. some of these areas in new york city you can't want dental block without being filled six times. some of these areas that was not the case and it certainly one of the things that held us up for the police to put this together. james: is probably going to be a lot of discussion with campus going forward. next up a glimpse into the chaos at the southern border. dramatic new video captures a suspected smuggler driving to of avon for some, democrats with the concern. >> backlash from the holiday travel nightmare critics claiming southwest for the holiday week travel disaster claiming the company prioritize investors over much-needed infrastructure improvements. ceo tom smith coming up on "the evening edit" next. ♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪

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>> step one is to get the operation back on track the best way to serve our customers is to get the network going again debbie a lot of lessons learned that come out of this. the futa passengers home and reunite travelers with missing bags is ongoing, the department of transportation requires passengers be compensated for lost luggage engine about at $23800 the department is promising they will be fine if the airline fails to reimburse travelers for meals hotels and ground transportation or fails to offer refunds for canceled flights transportation secretary pete buttigieg wrote the letter no amount of financial compensation can fully make up for passengers who miss moments with their families that they can never get back and continuing he says, that is why it's so critical for southwest to begin reimbursing passengers for the cost that can be measured in dollars and cents.

lawmakers including progressive ro khanna are calling out buttigieg for not doing more, tweeting six months ago bernie sanders and i called for pete buttigieg to implement fines and penalties for canceling flights, why were these recommendations not followed. this mess with southwest could've been avoided. executives have promised to improve the airlines operation but that likely will take years. in the short term the fourth-quarter results are expected to take a hit. executives wouldn't venture on how much but the last time southwest dealt with massive cancellations similar to this was october 2021, they canceled 1800 flights in one weekend that cost the airline about $75 million. this time we surpassed 15000 flights eight times that amount. james, back to.

james: thank you lydia hu to the reaction of the southwest scheduling disaster what this exposed about the airline let's welcome tom smith, thank you for joining us just an amazing inability among what seemed like a company to prioritize you tell me when you're running your business but i would've thought the software system that make sure that the aircrews and the planes are in the same place at the right time would be at the very heart of your business how could that of god neglected. as they were growing they weren't paying attention to details, it was kicked off by a weather event that snowballed to amount down as it's been described its focusing on the technology and discussions about weather is going to happen this time a year, everybody knows that the busiest travel time and

having conversations about backup plans or contingencies with the surprises, you i'm not going to ask you whether pete buttigieg will add value to this process of getting southwest backup and running. i'm just wondering on the issue priorities i know there's carpeting in washington, maybe southwest was too concerned about investors and after all they own the company, this is also comforting this seems to have spent a lot of time and set out a lot of press releases and the ceo talking about in their investor day, a few weeks ago all they were doing on climate with sustainable aviation fuel being a trailblazer in the area make it a $10 million commitment to yale university studying climate and related science with air travel. again people may like these will activities but the core of their

business making sure they had planes and pilots together ready to go is not dealt with. >> at the end of the day for moving people from point a to point b during the holidays and that has to be the foremost focus is the customers the rest of those are going to be around if you lose track of their customers and investors are supporting that to make a profit, the providing service and that's what grew this airline and made a difference and that's what we focus on and making sure we never lose sight of our customer first and providing the service your customers want to use. >> i want to talk about your business that does not have a scheduling disaster as far as i know tell us about the model in 2023 looks to you.

>> were really excited about 2023 in our model is completely different it's about bringing private jet travel added affordable price instead of having to buy a jet for millions of dollars for tens of thousands you can buy a seat on ours for a similar first-class $750 and that's where you can go to set jet.com and book a flight through the membership process in be able to travel in a private jet like you see behind me and not have all the chaos and get back time you not to wait an airport or lose your bags and go to a private terminal, it's revolutionizing in the southwest. >> i've been holding off on purchasing a private jet myself, this is very intriguing. >> it certainly the goal people want to get to. >> it sounds good. next up how bad is the covid outbreak in china, the cdc is calling out the country for what they say a lack of adequate and transparent data about the virus. a glimpse into the chaos at the southern border dramatic new video captures a suspected smuggler recklessly driving to invade law enforcement democrats are dismissing portable to officers concerns, former acting ice director next on "the

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james: shocking new video capture data boarder patrol checkpoint outside of texas a suspected human trafficker losing control of his vehicle while trying to evade dps officials, joy to be down to discuss the collapse at our southern border is former u.s. border patrol chief ron vitello. thank you for joining us. another image of chaos from the border, what goes through your mind when you see this. >> it shows you a couple of things the risk that law enforcement including border patrol take each and every day to try to protect us and this is an example of the smugglers disregard for everyone's lives involved the public people being smuggled in the vehicle and certainly the law enforcement that were making the apprehension, the border has been a dangerous place like bad things happen there but when you

have the chaos that were seen out gets worse, the smugglers are making so much money under this administration because the border is out of control thousands and thousands of people the weekly averages over 7000 of us 8000 people every 24 hours. it is crazy numbers. the system is adequate for this there is not enough workstations were for space they are really in a bad way down there. >> i think perhaps the strangest news on the subject there is a new book out the hill has excerpts of a book by chris whipple suggesting that president biden was angry because he kept demanding more from solutions from his staff and didn't seem to have a way to find solutions and he was getting angry i'm not sure what to make of this because it seems like one of the bizarre aspects of his presidency and there has

been a general posture at the border they don't need a solution because everything is going as planned. i want to play clips from biden officials talking about the border and ask you to respond. >> we have a secure border. >> the border is secure. >> with taken unprecedented action over the past year end a half to secure our borders. >> the board remains closed it is not open we are turning away the majority of adults. >> we have a process in place to manage migrants of the border. >> the president and everybody who works for him has been saying we got this there is not a crisis, we will process and yet he's backstage screaming for a solution not that there have been plenty of people suggesting solutions, what do you make of this bizarre story.

>> is very concerning, if he believes there is a problem down there we can all see with their own eyes despite the clips with the leadership ignoring how bad it is down there if you have a president expressing frustration of what's happened or how to fix or sensibly down there make this go away and some version he's upset but nothing gets done that is a concern to all of us he's a commander-in-chief if he wants to fix the problem is not that hard to do, he inherited 40 year lows of activity on the southwest border when he took over the border was more secure than i had been in decades within one day a being with the president he ripped down all of the tools that were being used by the frontline to help secure the border in 2020 and he inherited 40 year lows and hours in the worst surge on the southwest border that we've ever seen they are on pace to do well what they did last year which is

record 2.3 million in the year before 1.7 it would never seen the activity across the board illegally in years and we're going to do more this year and if they really want to fix this all they have to do is go back to what they inherited but they refused to do it, fees not in charge, who is. >> this question keeps coming up but it is so strange were a lot of people have theories why does he think it's good politics to keep the chaos going. does this make you more optimistic with less optimistic is it a staff issue are they not telling him that there's many people in congress or elsewhere in the country saying here's the proposal here's a way to end the chaos, do you think is not getting informed by his staff is that with the story tells us? >> the idea is scary if he is not being told the truth as a president and then he doesn't have the faculties to find out on his own was going on at the border he put the vice president in charge of something, root causes or something like that.

>> the root causes i guess the ideas, you fix the rest of the world so nobody would feel the need to come to the united states or the desire that's a long-term project to say the least and possibly will never happen. how likely other countries will become more awesome than the united states, pretty unlikely. >> agreed. if they really thought there was a problem down there why isn't she engaging with countries like venezuela and cuba we just did a deal with exxon but then produce oil and venezuela did we get a repatriation agreement with it, that's what we should've done. right now the border record activity and two thirds of everybody at the border are being released into the united states that is a recipe for more of the same and that's we're going to go. james: thank you ron will have to leave it there.

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flying as china drops 0 covid lockdown policies in the world still doesn't know if they can trust china to let the world know if there's a other bad outbreak, italy has tested all travelers from kobe to china. the u.s. testing travelers from china will start january 5, president biden approving the country specific testing requirement even though in the past he called trump's travel restrictions targeting china xenophobia. >> this is no time for donald trump's record of hysteria xenophobia and fear mongering to lead the science. >> experts are skeptical testing is enough to keep bad strands out of the country and potential outbreaks at bay testing two days before traveling means someone contest negative one day but be positive two days later when boarding the flight to the u.s. republicans say this is a charade because no mandatory testing happening at the southern border.

>> i think the biden administration to enforce this policy under policies against the chinese coming in to new york city but not any one of the 160 countries that people are coming across the southern border we have no restrictions and no policies and we have people coming across with covid, with whooping cough with mumps, measles, radke diseases and were doing nothing about it. >> a public don't think president biden has done enough to get to the bottom of origins of covid-19 something they say will change when they take control the house next week. james: thank you hillary vaughn for more on this let's bring in fox news medical contributor doctor jenness. thank you for joining us. clearly the communist regime in china has done a lot to make us skeptical and suspicious the regime has been line from the start. i understand a concern or of fear in the spiking cases in china but three years into this

is containment really is strategy? especially as we saw congresswoman tenney talk about how nobody is getting tested through all these other pathways doesn't really make medical sense to demand testing on the china flights? >> that's a really good question three years into this pandemic in china there has been a lack of transparency since day one. i don't think we're going to see a massive change in the outcomes with the testing. i think it might reduce transmission maybe 20 twomac 30% but i guarantee whatever variant is circulating in china right now has made its way around the world the problem is we have unanswered questions during, how quickly as well how many people are dying in china, they're hiding this information but i do think were probably going to get the answer soon out of italy because they have been testing passengers had been arriving from china to milan most

recently. james: i think about three years ago we followed italy and other countries in implementing the economy destroying lockdowns and we talked about the negative consequences that flowed from that, closing schools, kids loss of learning isolating people, mental health issues and other issues that were ignored, i hope were not heading down that path again as you talk to people in the medical community is there a sense that there would be more pushback now on public health experts that we have to reimpose all of the covid rules? >> i don't think we should consider any of these mandates, the lockdowns, the shutdowns, the school closures with a severe detrimental impact on everyone not just the children

damaging our economy increase in mental and emotional problems, it was really a severe tremendous impact and i don't think we should ever consider those mitigation measures again, they clearly did not work especially when we looked at the fact million americans have lost their lives and look at what's happening china the mitigation measures are causing this upper in outbreak because of low population immunity, 0 covid policy submitting chinese population did not have the opportunity to be exposed because they were lockdown because of the travel restrictions. now because he completely reversed the rules and regulations everyone is being impacted all at once that's where the healthcare system is overwhelmed and their full clearly that did not work is perfectly fine for the cdc and health organizations to make their recommendations especially for vulnerable to wear your mask and get your booster. at this point in the game everything should be optional.

james: sounds good. along those lines any advice for people as we learned to live with the virus here in the u.s. any advice for the average person as they're seeing this news out of china? >> as we wait for more information even the world health organization has said to china we need more information and transparency. it's important to know your risk and take the steps to protect yourselves remember high risk are senior citizens those who have underlying medical conditions those of a weak immune system if you're in a harvest category make sure you get your booster wearing n95 mask if you're in a crowded interpublic area and undergoing chemotherapy for cancer take those precautions and everyone else enjoy the new year. james: sounds good, thank you, doctor period it's been a tough year for the tech ipo market will discontinue will break itco down with wall street journal ipo reported core a dry bush, that is next on the evening at

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done, younger newer companies will replace the big giants but this could be, you tell me a tough year for the up and co comers, they had trouble with the coming markets, what is 2023 look like for the up-and-coming wannabe public technology companies. >> goodyear or bad year as i can be like this pass but the going to be challenged and it comes down to how they valued and as you will know these companies over the last couple of years have been valued on high multiples of future revenues in the looming recession after that those revenue projections have come down a lot which means the value of the companies or the assigned value has come down a ton. it's not a great time to go

public if you wanted the companies because you can be valued significantly less then even 12 months ago. james: do you get the sense for a lot of the well-funded venture-capital startups that are trying to challenge the tech giants. is it just a question that the founders are not going to be as rich as they thought they were, or a lot of the companies run out of money next year? >> because we have so much cash in venture-capital funds right now the chances of the more established tech startups that are nipping at the heels of the giant there's not a high likelihood of them running out of cash. some are turning to the vc backers and coming up with more structured financing so they avoid the lower evaluation

fundraising. there's still money out there she's going to cost more if that makes sense. james: last thing is there a general sense that the industry's relationship to washington is about to change in a big way or does it seemed like an lot of noise from the political class. >> you'd have to ask my colleagues at the ftc and to cover the ftc and washington politicians about that one. james: is probably going to need to ask them because were out of time. thank you for joining us. james: i am james freeman and for elizabeth macdonald you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us, happy new year, thank you for watching, please come back next year which i guess is monday, sunday? >> from the fox studio in new york city, this is "maria bartiromo's wallt"