david: so your house of representatives have adjourned until 8:00 p.m. eastern time. that is about two hours from now. there may be another vote. so far there have been six votes over the past two days for speaker. mccarthy has not received the 218 votes he needs to become speaker. so it is still up in the air, folks. that does it for us on fox business. that does it for us tonight. "the evening edit" starts right now. >> okay. the congress's paralyzed for now. the house will meet again in less than two hours for a seventh crack at a vote on kevin

mccarthy for house speaker but is there a plan b and what is it? new twitter files revealed demands to censor hundreds of thousands of twitter accounts came in from all over the u.s. government, not just the fbi. plus democrat adam schiff got twitter to censor the same journalists who reported on the whistle-blower against trump. this is all this a violation of the first amendment? with us tonight congressman greg stuebe, nicole malliotakis, the former chair of the federal energy regulatory commission, he is neil chatter energy pro nick loris, asa hutchinson, jason chaffetz, executive editor of the magazine common sense, christopher bedford. president biden now claims he intends to go to the border. is there a caveat on that? he has never been. right in the middle of the gop fight over house speaker, senator mitch mcconnell

showing up with president biden in kentucky to tout more spending. growing debate on green energy, breaking down, failing in storms, as the very green san francisco braced for rapidly intensifying "bomb cyclone." "the washington post" reports which house gop probe the white house fears the most. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: thanks for joining us. welcome to the show. let's get a check of your money stocks ending up after a choppy session. what happened? the new federal reserve minutes showing the central bank will slow down rate of central bank increases. market likes that. stock, sales force, bellwether business company will lay off 10% of its staff. the house adjourned. it will meet in less than two

hours for a seventh marathon vote, possibly more on speaker ship. kevin mccarthy lost six times straight. hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. hillary? >> reporter: congressman elect kevin mccarthy shot at speaker in the house is hooking more and more uncertain with every vote that fails in the house. mccarthy failing to win over 20 of his gop colleagues who want a fresh face to lead the house, preventing him from taking back the gavel. >> everybody came here because they said to their constituents this town is prone. i want to fix it. well how are you going to fix it if you come to this town and just step right in line? >> reporter: while the house could take vote after vote until a speaker is chosen, every vote is just a delay in getting down to the business of the american people. and the campaign promises each law i can mare made to get elected will have to wait until a speaker is in place. >> these 20 people are on a path

similar to liz cheney, adam kinzinger on. basically anti-republican path. they essentially turned into lepers on the house floor. i worry the same could happen. these 20 people essentially been disingenuous with the american public. they're trying to come across as these saviors. >> reporter: husband democrats are reveling in the moment. congressman ted lieu one of several democrats taking to the house floor to watch republicans fail to unify. not every democrat rejoicing, president bide saying gop gridlock is not a good look. even former president trump warning his party to turn a fresh gop majority in the house into a giant, embarrassing defeat. liz? elizabeth: hillary vaughn, great reporting as always, good to see you. florida congressman-elect greg stuebe. good to see you. happy new year. what is the plan b.

these 20 conserve is are not backing down. what is the plan? >> the group with team mccarthy negotiating with him behind closed doors. that was the purpose of the adjournment until 8:00 tonight. hopefully a break-through of the 20 people logjam voting. a lot of concessions is on the rules. mccarthy made a number of concessions. maybe there are concessions they can take to secure the votes. that is where we're at on the floor. at 8:00 you will see us going for a seven vote. elizabeth: are you optimistic he will win? >> i am. look at the numbers. over 200 members of the conference support him. only 20% are holding out. so i think hopefully they will be able to work this out and start the work of the american people, because just like your reporter said, we can't do

anything we talked about doing, for the american people until we swear in to take the gavel. elizabeth: watch congressman elect loren bobert nominated byron donalds for speaker ship. >> our border is wide open. inflation is out of control. the senate passed $1.7 trillion without our input. let me be clear, our job is not to coronate the biggest fund-raiser or rubber stamp the status quo, keep on going along to get along. it is to use our votes to elect a speaker who will enable us to get our country back on track. byron donalds is that leader. republicans including many moderates have been impressed by byron donalds. the president needs to tell kevin mccarthy, sir, you do not have the votes. it is time to withdraw.

with that i yield. elizabeth: a lot of booing over that. what was your reaction to that? >> byron donalds doesn't have the votes either. he has a lot of votes to go than kevin mccarthy does. all the points on issues that kevin mccarthy said he would address. he has been to the border. he said that would be a priority. he will create a committee specifically to investigate china. he will create a committee to investigate the corruption at doj and fbi. jim jordan will be judiciary chair, head a lot of these investigations as it relates to the immigration reform and the border. all of these things she talked about, that need to be addressed kevin mccarthy said he is going to address and members like myself who are conservatives like states like florida will stand with him to fight for the american people. elizabeth: should mccarthy back down now, get a consensus candidate the house gop can unify? the freedom caucus members they overwhelmingly come from safe, solid districts.

they are unlikely to be harmed by this. >> the majority of the freedom caucus support kevin mccarthy. it is 20 individuals are holding out. hopefully this negotiation happening right now will be successful. we can come together as republicans, elect a republican speaker, move forward to do the things the american people brought us up here and tasked us up here to do. elizabeth: the gop needs to decide what the problem is. they're not putting forward candidates overwhelmingly majority of voters will go for or is it to the 20 conservatives who are angry the house republicans are compromising too much and bending to the will of democrats too much, how do you see it? >> look, we live in a democratic republic, the democratic republic of the republican conference, 222 members vote for leader we want. will we not allow overwhelmingly members conference elected by voters in this land to determine the leader of republican

conference, not 10%, mass minority of the conference. we should stand behind the overwhelmingly majority of our conference elected after this election cycle and move forward for the american people want us to do. elizabeth: we have a new "gallup poll." americans see economic pain, higher taxes, even political unrest in 2023 the media is slamming the house gop. the president is saying that this is an embarassment. what is an embarassment is recession, inflation, collapsed border and rising crime, much more of these crises. so people say complain about this, this is messy but that is democracy, this is messy. the question will we get to, will you guys get to a house speaker that everybody can coalesce behind and will it be kevin mccarthy? >> at some point we have to. i feel strangely it will be kevin. he has 202 votes out of 222. you have 20 holding out.

i feel confident he can get there. we need to work together to find that person. every single day that goes by we're not able to do the work of the american people. that is what they sent us here to do investigations, pass bills we talked about passing. we'll do that as soon as we elect a speaker. >> which of the 20 do you think will first bend and will others follow behind that person? >> i don't know. it will, in conversations with them they all seem pretty locked but talk about negotiate on these rules. they give them some rule concessions and they still don't, still don't break away. this is more personality-based than what they're saying it is. at some point they have to realize we need to get to work, to set our personal differences aside. go behind the overwhelmingly majority of what the conference wants us to do, move forward with kevin as the speaker, get to work of the american people. elizabeth: what rules are they upset about? >> one of them was vacate the chair which mccarthy already acquiesced to. first they were asking for one.

he agreed to five members can move to vacate the chair. think about how dangerous that is. you're empowering the democrats but he agreed to it if five members in our conference decide to make a motion to vacate the chair, we will revote for speaker, be in the same exact circumstance you're in now. you're empowering the democrats to join five individuals. you could have a scenario where five moderate republicans join with the democrats to elect their own speaker. we're not far from that. if there is five moderate republicans want to break off with the democrats we could be in the scenario where you have a moderate republican or god forbid a democrat in a republican conference if five republicans break off to join them. that is where we're at. we need to get behind who the conference is voted at our leader and move forward. elizabeth: what is really an issue too, you see the debate, the fiery debate going on in the gop, it is taxpayer money being spent without oversight.

biden calling on the ongoing vote embarrassing. what is embarrassing is the blowout government spending in the dead of night where you guys are not holding hearings on it, reading the bills and not even debating it. so you know, when you see that you feel like you know, it is sort of this, it looks, makes fdr new deal spending look like you know coins under the couch cushion, the size of spending going on in the dead of night. let's take a listen to president biden weighing in on all of this today. watch this. >> are you going to visit the border when you head down to mexico. president biden: that is my intention. we're working out the details right now. with regard to the fight about the speaker, excuse me, i, that is not my problem. i think it is embarrassing -- [inaudible]. rest of the world is looking. it is not a good look. not a good thing. it is united states of america. i hope they get their act together. >> why is it important to go with mitch mcconnell to

kentucky? president biden: his state that is the reason. >> why is that significant to be with mcconnell there? president biden: a long time -- [inaudible] it is a giant bridge, man. it's a lot of money. elizabeth: you heard the comment. he says he will go to the border. he intends to. there is caveat there. he is talking about blowout spending. that is scaring inflation because inflation is going up. >> he is responsible for both these crises on his own. $1.7 trillion passed days before republican house took over majority in the house. the border is 100 percent lands in his lap, his responsibility and he has failed. elizabeth: congressman steube good to see you. come back soon. as kevin mccarthy struggles in the house we have the fight over senator mitch mcconnell showing up with the president to

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elizabeth: let's welcome to the show chris bedford. he is the executive editor of the new magazine, "common sense quote. good to see you. thanks for joining us tonight. >> good to be here. elizabeth: we have these new twitter files. requests that twitter censor, look at this, 250,000 accounts. those requests including censoring journalists came from all over the government, state department, central intelligence, not just the fbi. then you have democrat schiff think, he got twitter to censor the same journalist paul sperry who reported on whistle-blower against trump. he was suspended. paul sperry tweeting about that. isn't this is a first amendment violation all of this? >> seems like it is. it is showing you previously the argument twitter is a private company, who can sus who they want, suppress speech how they want, that argument con

conspicuously dropped by those in d.c. members of the intelligence service, fbi, adam schiff were asking the information be taken down, requesting information be censored, requesting accounts be shut down, often over completely false pretenses whether it was, accounts talking about the lab leak theory, a journalist for "new york post" writing for real clear investigations who could potentially have leaked phone calls from the white house. you have a congressman reaching out, this shows you how comfortable the relationship had gotten, a congressman said hey can you pull that down, any tweets that mentioner this person, brown down any accounts mentioning that person, fingering two journalists? that is significantly more concerning and moves towards first amendment by the. elizabeth: schiff was claiming staffer in his office was potentially harassed by

potential whistle-blower, that the staffer was getting ha resisted. what schiff did about a member of congress thought he had to the right to censor journalist. how is this not state censorship? remember people got upset when journalists were following, doxxing about his private jet? musk reinstated them. this is pretty bad stuff it seems like. >> showing the actual government collision in this is terrible. but it comes down to it they might be able to argue there is no actual use of force here by the government to shut down american citizens free speech but since we give this government the power to have that use of force the sole use of force and since it often does use it, now we have a communicating with companies in a way that could be seen as intimidating to those companies, that is something that needs to be argued in the courts. what is worse about this, this is denied entire time. people said it was conspiracy theory when you talk about it. now it is exposed, we already

knew it happened all the time, it is not even a news story. that is completely going gus. now the american people can see it. elizabeth: to your point government officials and bureaucrats as you mentioned earlier even got twitter to censor twitter content about any discussion about the pandemic, coronavirus leaking from a lab in china, calling that you know, saying well this is just russian disinformation and talk about lockdowns. that was censored too. twitter's former top official yoel roth all the activity was the government's attempt to do content moderation by themselves, you know what i mean? you couldn't even talk about the possibility, looks like there is evidence it did leak from the lab, or about lockdowns. if you did, you were thought to be russian disinformation and then censored. >> yeah. i mean "the federalist," i used to work was threatened by google losing its advertising there was serious evidence this was leaked from a lab.

you were not allowed to talk about it until jon stewart came out said publicly, everyone laughed. of course this made total sense all along. when you hear words like russian disinformation, qanon conspiracy theory that should raise every antenna you have that is lazy excuses to censor information that proves to be true, and that is inconvenient for those trying to get it censored. when you hear that, what lazy bureaucrat is trying to shut up american discontent now? elizabeth: got it. chris bedford. always great having you on. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> "the washington post" is reporting on which washington probe the white house is afraid of the most. as kevin mccarthy struggles in fight for house speaker ship the fight over senator mitch mcconnell showing up with the president in kentucky to tout blowout infrastructure spending. we have the former head of the

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elizabeth: okay the president was with senator mitch mcconnell touting infrastructure fixing a bridge in kentucky. other administration officials including the vice president are traveling the nation touting trillions of government spending. that is your money they're spending. there is no mention what the economists are warning about, stagflation involved with all this government spending and

inflation. edward lawrence at the white house with more. edward. >> reporter: president joe biden says the spending will invest in america. this latest spending he is talking about with republican senator mitch mcconnell on a major bridge connecting kentucky and ohio. the senator stressing his part getting $1.6 billion to fix the bridge. >> we all know these are partisan times. i always feel no matter who gets elected, once it is all over we should look for things we can agree on to try to do those. >> reporter: all of the $5.8 trillion spending signed by president joe biden so far part of the problem according to many economists. we're staring the possibility of stagflation in the united states with the federal reserve saying gdp growth last year and for 2023 will be just .5%. so the fed also says unemployment will rise. and when that happens you in inflation for the trifecta for stagflation. before the president went to

kentucky weighed in on the republican search for a house speaker. it is important to hear this. listen. president biden: things are settling out now for the first time in 100 years can't move. i really mean it. i know you know national relations. is is not a good look. it is not a good thing. it is the united states of america. i hope they get their act together. >> reporter: the president said this situation is an embarassment to the world. elizabeth: thank you, edward lawrence. we have neil chatterjee and nick loris. happy new year to you both, gentlemen, thanks for spending time with us tonight. first to you, nick, the president says what is going on with the house speakership fight is an embarassment. what is an embarassment stagflation. kentucky nearly blacklisted a dozen major banks because of their boycott of u.s. energy companies right when the president was visiting there with senator mcconnell. that is embarrassing. >> there is a a lot to unpack

there. certainly americans are concerned about runaway spending, about higher tax burdens we'll have to face to pay for this spending and federal government assuming roles that the private sector is assuming. not every dollar in the infrastructure bill is bad by any means. there is a lot of good and necessary invests in public infrastructure, in energy research and development but at the same time if we want to get the money out the door we need meaningful permitting reform and that is something the new congress and senate should focus on if we want to see a bipartisan successful strategy moving forward. elizabeth: neil, where do you come down on this? good to see you, good to have you on, neil. kentucky state can pull money out of banks including pension funds. citigroup, jpmorgan chase, blackrock. this is coming the president is criticized over his energy policy but it is about blowing out taxpayer money on his spending priorities what do you think, neil? >> i agree with nick. not every dollar of taxpayer

spending is wasteful spending. i'm from kentucky. i crossed the brent spence bridge that is critical infrastructure for our economy, to keep goods moving about our economy. we've struggled to find a compliment to that bridge for years and years. this was a big deal and an example of a bipartisan compromise. when it comes to you know banks and state governments and the divesting of certain things, look i'm a big believer in letting the markets work and markets function. i don't like it when california bars companies that invest in fossil fuels and i don't like it when kentucky bars companies that divest from fossil fuels. i would rather have investment houses make decisions about where they can make money and provide the greatest return to their shareholders and investors. i don't want those investors making decisions to reform society. if they think investing in

decarbonization which is a huge financial opportunity is a good thing that can make money, they ought to do it. elizabeth: so what neil just said, nick, by the way, kentucky is a fossil fuel producing state. it is joining a growing number of states saying no to woke capitalism. west virginia, also florida, texas, utah, louisiana. they're all moving to yank their money out of these banks that are saying, pushing these esg initiatives. this is coming on the same day what the president was doing in kentucky. so there is more states saying no to this, nick. what do you think? >> yeah. i think neil's point was spot on. we want more competition and by restricting access to lending facilities in banks you're restricting some of that competition and i understand a lot of states with abundant resources if there is hostility to mining those resources, to developing oil and gas but at the same time if you restrict access to lending institutions, what we've seen in some of these states that pass these laws is

that it actually raises the borrowing rates for these states and that increases the interest rates that are paid for by the taxpayers. so when you're talking about pensions for teachers and firefighters and local office workers, you know the focus needs to be on the return they're going to see so they can retire with a lot of money in their bank, rather than focusing on these woke bills or these anti-woke bills or some of these esg bills like in california that are doing the same damage. elizabeth: neil, your final word? >> look, i mean nick is right. these states should stay out of investments and investors should make decisions based on what is in their best financial interests and not allow you know greater societal objectives to come into play. if you think investing in decarbonization will provide greater returns to your investors do it. but don't do it because you're trying to reshape society. elizabeth: got it.

neil chatterjee, nick loris, thanks for joining us, good to see you. we'll stay on the fight of what is going on in the house over the speakership. kevin mccarthy face as seventh vote in hour 1/2. he has lost six votes straight. the debate how green energy breaks down in storms, it fails. san francisco, it is very green. it is bracing for a rapidly intensifying "bomb cyclone." "the washington post" reports which house gop probe the white house fears the most. we have congresswoman nicole malliotakis next on "the evening edit". ♪.

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elizabeth: let's welcome to the show from house foreign affairs congresswoman-elect nicole malliotakis. thanks for joining us, congresswoman. you and house republicans, you are voting a seventh time on speaker mccarthy. what is your take on this fight? >> look i think i'm hoping that right now as the two sides are sitting together, representatives from both sides,

trying to hash out the differences that we can emerge from the meeting at 8:00 with one ballot in support of kevin mccarthy. the reality is that kevin has been such an open leader, has been willing to take suggestions. he has accommodated rule changes requests, giving us opportunities to read the legislation unlike what nancy pelosi did, giving as you2 hour rule. making sure bills were germane. not jamming all sorts of stuff in the bill that shouldn't be there. that the cbo, impact from on inflation. somewhere it has to beingbe cut. can't keep to adding to 31 trillion-dollar debt. these are changes members requested, but here they are pushing for personal requests. i think that is where we should be drawing the line. we can't allow 10% of the individuals to hold this entire body hostage. we all agreed on the rules

changes. we want to see good government reforms made but to continue to hold hostage to the leader, other members of congress, get in way of us doing our job, what the american people want us to do would be a real tragedy at this point. elizabeth: let's move on to this, "the washington post" is reporting that the white house is most afraid of and worried about the house probe into biden's botched withdrawal from afghanistan. they can't dismiss it as just politics or blame it on trump because the biden white house decided to pull out the military first before it evacuated all american citizens and 13 troops died. 9,000 americans stranded. you get a question who made the call to pull out the military first and why, that is the question. >> absolutely. think closed the airbase prior to evacuating citizens. as a result prisoners, isis prisoners were released from that jail, one of them went on to commit that who are risk attack that killed 13 american soldiers. we have sought accountability for the last year but the

democrats refuse to hold hearings. that is why we are so, so much wanting to get sworn in so we can start doing, conducting these investigations, not just that, but the biden families association with foreign entities. what is happening at the southern border, making sure it is secure, holding mayorkas accountable. we want toes about legislation under kevin mccarthy we worked hard to develop and craft, secure the border, tackle inflation, ramp up energy independence. stop the president raiding the strategic petroleum reserves. we can't do that if we can't elect the speaker first. you're a business met work. what business would allow 10% of its shareholders, 10% of the board of directors be able to dictate the rest of the entry? that is exactly what is happening here in congress. we're being held hostage by 10% of our republican members who don't seem to want to do what is right for the conference and for

the country but now they're seeking committee commitments and all other things opposed to moving forward with the rules changes that are good rules changes to get a better governing body. elizabeth: you're ready to go? >> i've been ready to go. elizabeth: you're ready to go on afghanistan. what is really coming out here, this is the angle that the white house and the president gave contradictory messages that all was good and safe for americans inside of afghanistan. did that cause them to stay and get stranded? in july, in 2021, the u.s. embassy in kabul, no plans to close the embassies, well-developed security plans. president biden said in july, taliban would not own the country. all of that was wrong. all of that was contradictory. americans were stranded, 13 troops died. issue why 9,000 troops left behind why is that deem an acceptable cost of this policy? >> they said they would not leave without making sure every american was evacuated. they also left our afghan partners who risked their lives

to be translatestores for our military behind, leaving them to be slaughtered. we're seeing al qaeda with new threats. i'm concerned about the open border. the combination could be very dangerous for the united states. this is one topic our foreign affairs committee sought to have a hearing on. we wouldn't get them to do public transparent hearing behind closed doors. never give us answers to the questions we asked. public hearing i want to be done and conference under leader mccarthy will do that as well. >> congresswoman nicole malliotakis. mayor of new york calls biden's border crisis embarrassing. biden says he intends to visit the border. is there a caveat there? he has never been. the growing debate how green

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elizabeth: welcome back to the show former utah congressman jason chaffetz. good to see you again, jason. okay this house speakership fight is in chaos. president biden called it embarrassing. critics say inflation, recession, border collapse, crime, that is embraer rationing. what is your take what is going on? >> it's a mess and we do need to get it sorted out. there is a reason why the framers of the constitution set it up this way. it will probably continue to go on. both sides are kind of

entrenched what they believe. the 20 or so not able to vote for kevin mccarthy. they don't like him. they don't trust him. i don't feel there can ever be turned or talked into going a different direction. i just don't think they will. elizabeth: you know, let's move on to this story. because we've got a lot of serious problems that the names is dealing with, a lot of crises. we have a "bomb cyclone" about to hit san francisco. democrats are all about pushing green energy. the biden white house wants electric cars the all of those fail in storms. ledge trick cars lose half the driving range in cold weather. they won't drive or unlock in cold weather, stranding people. this debate over green energy that needs to be had inside of the house, inside of congress? >> that is why i'm about all of the above energy. i think a lot of republicans have taken that position. if you put too much on any one form of energy you get caught with these types of problems. i used to own a tesla. i love the tesla. kind of the way every car should

be. i ultimately sell it because i could sell it for more money i bought it for after putting 20,000 miles on it. retaining value is great. in cold weather state in utah, when the temperature drops down to 10, it does, energy out after electric battery just plummets. it is hard to plan for it. you can't just pull over. if traffic gets stopped somewhere because of an accident, you will probably ha to be towed. unless you pursue all of the above it's a real problem but there are drawbacks. most people don't realize where electricity comes from. it comes from colby and large. it also comes from nuclear which the greenies are also opposed to. electricity is great, you have to understand where does it come from? elizabeth: there is questions about the stress put on power grid from green energy during the recent blizzard that killed 60 people here in the u.s. throughout the u.s. that debate

is going on right now. democrats including representative ro khanna and nina turner, with the left-wing institute on race, power political economy criticize pete buttigieg. he said in september, the summer travel delays will not happen again for the holidays. then they happened again. is it fair to criticize buttigieg here? your final word? >> of course. he takes his high horse and tries to lecture us but remember we had the rail strike problem, we had the infrastructure problem, we had the supply chain problem, all on his watch. he has only been there less than two years. so, you know, what has he actually done? what has he actually accomplished? most of the stuff i see in transport -- transportation is failing in washington. happy birthday, liz. they told me to come on the show there will be birthday cake. instead i got hard questions about energy and everything else. i hope there is some cake. elizabeth: i will email you interoffice envelope with cake. i'm kidding.

>> i will take it. i'm kidding. do you think i get a body like this missing cake? no. elizabeth: i promise you we get you cake. >> happy birthday. elizabeth: i appreciate that. a little embarrassed. good to have you on, jason chaffetz. we'll have you on soon. fight over house speakership. we have a problem with the border. that is delaying the fix there. even the democrat governor of colorado jared polis he is sending illegal immigrants to democrat run new york city. new york city's mayor calls the border crisis embarrassing. the president says he intends to go to the border but is there a caveat there? arkansas governor asa hutchinson on "the evening edit" next. >> for a rural county we consider it a mass migration. we're worried about crisis goings-on. we called the other day for pickup of group of migrants. they told us they are so busy they cannot arrive until the following day. what are we supposed to do? leave women, children, kids on

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elizabeth: let's welcome back to the show governor of arkansas asa. >> happy new year. elizabeth: the president today, now says he intends

to go to the border, do you believe him, he has never been. >> well if he said so we should believe him. i hope he does, i hope when he goes he brings a bipartisan group of governors with him. because we're the ones that are getting hit by this terrible border crisis. now it is a bipartisan concern. that both parties are reflecting the the. failure of president biden and his policy, he needs to go and take action. we have to have a solution. elizabeth: president said there are more important things going on. >> well, he is all over map on it, this is the reason that we have an influx of

migrants that believe the border is open. because he is diminishing it as an issue. and raise it as an issue. the inconsistencies of his policy itself is an invitation for people to come and cross the border illegally, when you see title 42, now we have time for bipartisan solution it can't be a comprehensive solution it has to be focused on the border security side of it. i do believe that there is opportunity there, and the republicans can lead on this. we can lead in a bipartisan way. if we bring people together to look at this solution to have a replacement for title 42. so, congress has to act on this, we need leadership terribly well. elizabeth: to your point, let's watch the disconnect between white house on biden's borter crises and

dem -- border crises and democrats like new york city mayor eric adams. >> follow-up to some immigration news from over the break. does anyone here think that the southern border is secure. >> i can tell you is, there is a president that has been working sunday one. to work on border security. to make an immigration a priority, that is why he put ford forward, a comprehensive immigration reform plan, as president is coming forward and trying to come up with solutions, the difference is that you have republicans as you know, who are doing political stunts, and you know, and we have called that out over and over and over again. >> real embarrassment i believe on a national level, we must have an appropriate response we have had conversations around the issues on migrants for decades, this is a national issue, must have a national

response. elizabeth: so that was new york city mayor, saying this san embarrassment, democrat governor will colorado, is sending illegal immigrants to new york city. homeland security admits it has no record on 350,000 illegal border crossers released to u.s. they were supposed to be monitoring. how can the white house press secretary, say that president is focused on border security? >> well she can't with a straight face. that is the embarrassing part of it they claim it is all find on the border, from the mayor of new york to governor of colorado. to every other governor we know it is not right. we know it not fixed. the american public understands that and this is about the integrity of the united states our democracy, we're a sovereign country, so, action is required. engi engagement in

mexico is a critical part, and controlling the cartel that are bringing migrants and fentanyl in this say humanitarian cases, it is also a crisis within our cities nearlies of illegal drug use and fentanyl and deaths because of this. the mayor has it right, there has to be a national response. right now, the states are leading, and there has to be more that is done, congress, but this administration must lead, they are not doing that. the american people need to hold them accountable. elizabeth: governor hutchinson thank you for joining us, i am elizabeth macdonald, you have been watching "the evening edit" on fox business, that does it for us, have a good even, join us tomorrow night. ♪ ♪ kennedy: it is day two of the speakership sweep stakes and we still don't hav