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happened. this is the d.c. debate, faa outage, an outage in leadership. reports president biden miss handled a second batch of classified documents at a separate location. multiple locations are being searched. what are the links between all of this, the biden family overseas deal making? house majority whip congressman tom emmer, house oversight chair, congressman james comer, chair of ways and means, congressman jason smith. chair of house homeland security, congressman mark green. "washington examiner" byron york and washington times charlie hurt. house gop filed impeachment charges against homeland secretary mayorkas. does this have legs? msnbc's joy reid's get fact expected checked in her fight with congressman byron donalds. pentagon gets rid of covid vaccine mandate but will it

reconstitute soldiers discharged. "new york times" claims he is not giving legacy media enough attention? faa passengers stranded on a amtrak day for day 1/2. it was so bad the conductor told passengers to stop calling 911. i'm liz bet elizabeth macdonald. this is "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. let's start with your money. stocks ending in the green. why? that december inflation report tomorrow. the market is expecting cooling inflation, meaning lower, less aggressive federal reserve interest rate hikes. to the nationwide grounding of air flights. critics slamming pete buttigieg, transportation secretary. he has been embroiled in multiple crises, taking vacations during negotiations to avert a rail strike, flying faa

jets to media interviews when he could skype, not being on the stick in the supply chain crisis and now this. grady trimble live at chicago o'hare international with the story on the faa meltdown. grady? >> reporter: hi, liz. the airlines have been playing catchup all day after that pilot alert system went down this morning and prompted the first nationwide ground stop since 9/11. so far today more than 9200 flights across the country have been delayed. more than 1300 canceled. we're now seeing the ripple effects with planes and flight crews out of position. even though the faa is to blame, it was their system that went down the airlines are now the ones left picking up the pieces from a customer service perspective. they say they won't charge passengers who need to rebook because of the delays in cancellations that have been piling up all day. >> now all backed up. this is insane, man.

this will be trump advertising especially with three kids. it will be traumatizing. >> i'm trying to be calm an relaxed at the same time but everything is very intense. i've never come to the airport and be so tense right now. >> reporter: the biden administration says it is looking into what caused the system to go down. they say there is no evidence of a cyberattack but it is not something they have ruled out just yet. the administration and faa are also facing questions about why there weren't redundancies plac. one person facing growing criticism tonight is transportation secretary pete buttigieg. he is been unflew for slew aviation related problems since he took on the role, the delays last spring to the southwest meltdown a few weeks ago over the holidays, liz, now this. elizabeth: grady trimble always great reporting from you. thank you so much. look who is here. he is congressman james comer,

chair of house oversight. congratulations on your chairmanship. your committee launched today the probe into the biden family overseas deal-making of hunter biden, making money off of biden's government job. the question will you get the 150 suspicious act at this time reports from treasury and how does this connect to biden mishandling classified documents? >> it is all a pattern that goes back to a money trail that leads unfortunately to china. with respect to the suspicious activity reports and bank violations i'm confident treasury secretary yellen will give those to us. the last time we asked, them, i could give them to you, you're in the minority so it doesn't matter. i'm in the majority. the house oversight committee is supposed to have access to these to begin with. i'm confident we get those one way or the other. if we don't get them from secretary yellen we'll get them from the banks. elizabeth: the second batch of classified documents that the president mishandled a different

location than his think tank, multiple locations being searched. this is a growing problem. his think tank office at the biden penn center, these documents were six years after he left the obama white house. his think tank launched two years after he left in 2018. are you going to be looking at whether the president used his think tank office as a chair of biden family incorporated like hunter's deal-making in ukraine and china? >> absolutely. we have a lot of questions about what all was going on in these go locations now. look, joe biden said it was irresponsible when donald trump had classified documents. what we know is every president accidentally or inadvertently takes documents we later learn may be classified but at the end of the day joe biden was vice president and my question is, what is he doing with these classified documents and who all had access to these locations. when the fbi raided mar-a-lago with respect to trump's

classified documents they seized the security cameras, they went through every room including melania's closet. here, all we know for sure is that lawyers for joe biden who by the way didn't have access to classified information, they apparently turned it over to the national archives. what they learned turned it over in the first batch in november. we only know this because of investigative reporting at cbs. now today, nbc broke a story on a separate batch of classified documents, appears someone disgruntled in biden world tipping press off. at the end of day president biden needs to come clean exactly what he had and who all had access. elizabeth: this is covering it up before the midterms. >> right. elizabeth: voters did not see the information what was going on before the midterms. china donates $54 million to upenn which funded biden think tank. the biden think tank was not

doing fund-raising t got money from upenn. biden presidential aides worked at the think tank, meeting with chinese officials. that include mark can carpenter. mark carpenter was named director of the biden penn center. >> the trail from the biden center to the biden administration, when you consider the primary source of funding for the biden center were anonymous donations in china, this stinks to high heaven. this will be part of our investigation because we're concerned that this administration and this president is compromised because of millions of dollars both he an his family received from china. this is something every american should be concerned about. frustrates me mainstream media attacks me every day for having the nerve to investigate and determine where this money is in fact coming from in china. why they're so interested in donating millions of dollars to

joe biden's biden center and invest with hunter biden's shady business dealings. this is a concern and we're not going to let up. i'm glad the story broke about the classified documents because it is further proof we need to vet the biden family influence peddling. elizabeth: you know, the democrats, even the democrats senator mark warner, chair of senate select subcommittee on fell against demanded a briefing from the doj on this. there are national security implications here. gop house intelligence asking dni avril haines for u.s. intelligence damage assessment, citing potential violations of laws. let's watch the president on all of this. president biden: i don't have access to classified information anymore. i don't get briefed by the agency as i did for eight years. [shouting questions] president biden: four years after being vice president i was a professor at penn. they found some documents in a box, you know, locked cabinet,

or at least a closet. surprised to learn that there were any government records that were taken there to that office. but i don't know what's in the documents. elizabeth: they were in his closet at his office. do you not know what is in your closet in your office. by the way he was not a professor at upenn. do you believe him on this? >> i don't know what to believe. i can believe that he wouldn't know what kind of documents he has because i have a lot of questions as to who makes a lot of the decisions in this white house quite frankly. but at the end of the day the fact that they were in his possession, he is responsible for those documents and we need to know who all had access to those documents. did they just sit in a clossette supposedly all the years? all we know is what he told us, that they were sitting in a closet. for all we know they have been in china or somewhere or ccp has had access to the biden center because they're the biggest donor to the biden center. we have a lot of questions.

hopefully we get answers very soon. elizabeth: clinton's, sandy berger, right? he was, he was clinton's national security advisor. >> right. elizabeth: remember sandy berger before he testified before the 9/11 commission he stuffed classified documents into his socks. >> right. elizabeth: what happened to him, he was sentenced to two years probation. he served 100 hours of community service around he was stripped of his security clearance, he lost his law license. but this is okay that the president or anybody's allowed to have classified documents like this at a think tank that is getting funding from china? final word. >> no, it's not. when democrats do something like that it is considered sloppy or irresponsible. when republicans do it it is criminal. this is another example of a two-tiered system of justice at doj. elizabeth: got it. congressman comer, congratulations again. we'll have you back on. >> thank you. elizabeth: this story coming up, msnbc's joy reid gets fact checked in her fight with congressman byron donalds.

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majority whip congressman tom emmer. great to see you, congressman, and congratulations on your new position. >> thank you, liz. great to be with you. elizabeth: texas republican pat fallon filed impeachment articles to house judiciary against homeland security secretary mayorkas. what are the high crimes and misdemeanors here? i tell you americans are sick and tired of how abused the border has been. there is a real war for control of the border against the drug and human trafficking cartels but what are the high crimes and misdemeanors? >> well, actually, to your point, if you think about this, president biden understands there is a new majority in town, liz. that is why he scram -- scrambled to bet his butt down to the el paso for the first visit something he denied even existed for the last couple of years. you have almost 4.5 million illegals have an apprehended at our southern border the last two years. last month alone you had almost

75,000 got-aways. this is unprecedented and it is unsatable and house republicans will hold the biden administration accountable with power of purse and power of the subpoena. what pad did, he is filing articles of impeachment. he said that mayorkas lied to congress. quite frankly he is not doing his job. he is ignoring his mission which is to protect the southern border, quite frankly the safety and security of american citizens not just on the border because every state we would argue today is a border state, because of the fentanyl crossing that border every day. elizabeth: you need 2/3 of the senate to convict. democrats control the chamber. will you convince them? >> i don't know about that but you definitely need to continue the awareness. like i said this president has denied you even have a problem. this administration denied this problem for the past two years. president bide recognizes we have a new majority in town.

for the first time ever he got his rear end down to the southern border. literally they cleared the streets of el paso so he could have a sanitized visit so he didn't really do much but the point is you have to continue to raise this for the american public. this is going to be an issue today, it will be an issue tomorrow, and it will be an issue going into the presidential election in 2024. house republicans will make sure one, we address the issue to try to solve the perform. if this administration refuses to, the american public will be well aware of who is responsible and why it is happening. >> to your point let's watch secretary mayorkas testify. he claims in testimony that the border is secure. watch this. >> the border is secure. the border, we are working to make the border more secure. that has been a historic challenge. >> secretary mayorkas do you continue to maintain the border is secure? >> yes. and we are working day in and

day out to enhance its security, congressman. >> there is no question that the number of encounters that we are experiencing at the border is straining our system. this harkens back to the question you previously posed, which is we're operating within a system that is fundamentally broken. elizabeth: so he says it is fundamentally broken in a podcast, but testifies it is secure. how can he say it is secure when 98 terrorists on the watch list were caught trying to cross? this is just a generation after 9/11. >> liz, let me translate what secretary mayorkas is really saying to the american people and more importantly in those instances to congress he is saying are you going to believe me or are you going to believe your lying eyes? he has not been doing thinks job. the southern border is not secure. you talk about the folks on the terrorist watch list coming across. you have approximately 300 americans per day are dying from

fentanyl overdoses and the fentanyl is coming across that southern border. everybody knows it. these people know it and they're not doing anything about it. so i will keep going back to it. they would not do anything about it. now they know there is a new majority in town. they will try to cover their tracks, but quite frankly unless they're willing to do what needs to be done to close that border, the open border that they have created, we're going to continue to raise the, raise the issue so americans understand just how serious this is. the administration has to be held accountable, liz. elizabeth: all right. >> in short. elizabeth: we'll stay on it. congressman, thanks for joining us. good to see you again. >> thanks for having me. >> this story, the pentagon finally gets rid of the covid vaccine mandate. it was repealed in the defense spending bill. will it reinstate thousands of troops who were discharged? msnbc's joy reed gets fact-checked in her fight with congressman byron donalds.

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being searched? what do you make of this growing scandal? >> liz, thanks for having me. you know it's absurd. if you look back a few months ago when president biden was blasting president trump for having classified documents and how careless he said that is, well this was the vice president of the united states that was, that careless with documents and they have found two rounds of documents? it is absolutely unacceptable, he needs, he needs to be treated the same way he tried to treat the former president. elizabeth: he was holding on to them six years, six years after he left the obama white house. his think tank started up two years after he left the white house. so he was holding on to them. so we'll move on to this. get your reaction to msnbc's joy reid in her fight with representative byron donalds. watch this. >> my friend jodey arrington will chair budget. he wants to look into the budget and also look to entitlements. do you know that social security is going to be insolvent in 25

years. >> that is not true. that is actually not true. >> that is what the numbers say. >> joy, i'm a finance professional. i. >> that actually not. that is actually not true. that is actually not true. >> it it will go insolvent. elizabeth: congressional research service, congressman, all say social security is headed for insolvency by 2035. 80% of benefits will be payable. insolvency means taxes go up to pay for it to make it solvent. just. >> just because someone says it is not true, doesn't mean it is not true. we have to worry about social security and medicare. without a doubt even the congressional budget office will say these are programs that will become insolvent if we're not careful. i don't know what she is reading what she is looking at. i will say this right now the republican party is the party of the working class. we'll do everything we can to protect and preserve

social security and medicare. with hope, we just hope democrats join us to protect these programs. elizabeth: democrats new narrative, republicans want to defund social security, defund medicare, defund the pentagon and defense department. what do you say? >> republicans like to say they will throw granny off the cliff for decades. it is all lies. republicans want to protect social security and medicare. we're the party of the working class. that is who depends on social security and medicare. that is in fact what we're doing. i welcome my democrat colleagues to join with us. the only way we can fix the problems if they come in a bipartisan manner and we fix it. we're going to have to do it but spend, spend, spend is only making these programs even worse. elizabeth: but you know the democrats attitude there is open pocketbook out there among the american to pay for everything

and that they're entitled to keep taxing and spending the way they want for their personal wish-list items. >> liz, when i was ranking member of the budget committee we had a hearing where the democrats tried to eliminate the debt limit. we don't need a debt limit. in that hearing leaders of the democrat party say what, we can just print more money. we don't have to pay anything back. we'll never pay anything back? that's crazy. it is ludicrous, it is unacceptable. that is why the american people decided to kick the democrats out of the house of representatives and republicans to get the majority because they want the fiscal house to be in order. that is in fact what we're pushing for. elizabeth: congressman, joy reid asked congressman donalds if his gop colleagues nominated him last week as quote a diversity statement. watch this. >> you were nominated for speaker. >> yeah. >> you've been in congress one term. >> yes. >> what were your qualifications to being speaker of the house? >> the colleagues recognize my leadership have seen it in many leaps and bound.

>> there are four african american members in the house republican caucus. there are 56 members in the democratic caucus. it is more diverse. do you not believe the idea was to make a diversity statement by nominating you? >> actually first, that was not the idea. because i was in the room when the decision was made by people who chose to nominate me. elizabeth: your reaction? so diversity statement. so insult, insult his intelligence because he is different opinions than hers? congressman donalds worked in the finance, insurance and banking industries. he was raised by a single mom. what was your take on that he is a diversity statement? >> i tell you these people are absolutely ridiculous. they should be ashamed of themselves. the fact they want to target conservatives, they target conservative women, they target conservative african-americans, asian-americans. they need to back off just because they're not like everyone else and that they believe in freedom, opportunity

and hope. elizabeth: you know in the past democrats like al gore, obama, jfk, bill clinton, they demanded cuts to big government spending. that was a democrat platform dating back to jfk. are now they all radical? >> i will tell you the republican party is the party about diversity. we're the party that is growing. we want everyone in our party because we're delivering for working class americans. the democrats are the party of woke corporations, wall street and k street. we are about working class americans. elizabeth: so democrats are heading out in attempts to curb excessive government spending. that is exactly what you saw them trying to do with reinvent government under al gore and bill clinton. >> they just continue to spend, spend, spend. that's their philosophy. we saw more than $10 trillion of spending just in the last 24 months. in the first 24 months of one party democrat rule. thank goodness we stopped that since january 3rd. elizabeth: got it.

congressman smith. we'll have you back on soon. good to see you. >> good to see you, liz. elizabeth: we're coming out of the bottom of the hour, of the fox business network. we're excited, "the evening edit" will move an hour earlier 5:00 p.m. eastern time to the larry kudlow low. we want you to adjust your calendars and still continue to watch. we can't wait. also governor ron desantis, is fighting multiple problems in florida but "the new york times" complains he is not giving legacy media enough attention? also the pentagon finally gets rid of the covid vaccine mandate. will it reinstate the thousands of troops discharged? we have congressman mark green, chairman of homeland security next on "the evening edit." ♪ ♪ well, the stock is bubbling in the pot ♪

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hillary? >> reporter: good evening, liz. the biden administration extending the public health emergency for covid once again but there is speculation this could be the last extension for the has time. "politico" reporting that senior officials are looking to end the emergency designation for covid as soon as this spring, something they reportedly thought about last summer and put it off. the president hinted last month in remarks that covid concerns were not on top of mind. >> president biden: things are getting better. covid no longer controls our lives. our kids are back in school. people are back to work. >> reporter: hhs telling "politico" it hasn't made a decision yet whether or not to end the public health emergency saying this, as hhs committed to earlier we will provide a 60-day notice to states before any possible termination or expiration. but even if the president is ready to move on republicans on capitol hill say not so fast. at the top of their to-do list is getting to the bottom where

covid came from and how the federal government spent trillions of dollars in emergency aid. >> the first hearing will be on the covid funds. we spent trillions of dollars in the nail of covid. there has not been a single hearing to oversee those funds. >> reporter: two big policies are related to this public health emergency. title 42 which has been extended to the spring and the student loan payment paws which expires at the end of june -- pause. liz. elizabeth: hillary vaughn, always great reporting from you, thanks very much. back with us new house homeland security chair, congressman mark green. the congressman a former army special-ops flight surgeon who served in afghanistan and iraq. congratulations on your hair manship, sir. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: sir reaction the pentagon formally got rid of the covid-19 vaccine mandate after the defense bill repealed it. will the pentagon reinstate 8400

troops discharged? >> not without legislation. this defense department is just rabid about the vaccine mandate. they're even basically saying that what we put in the ndaa, one we just passed doesn't cover the reserve and the guards. they're insisting they still have to get a vaccine. it, they are just rabid about this. we're going to have to force them to do all of the things that need to be done regarding the reinstatement of the troops, the military members and you know, this issue with the guard. elizabeth: you know, moving on to the new covid origin subcommittee to investigate whether the pandemic leaked out of the lab in china, it has never been found in nature. the u.s. economy shut down over this. the federal government's funding of research to create lethal superviruses in labs. dr. fauci, and former nih director dr. francis collins

stonewalled an did not work with the "washington post" who is asking about this funding. it was funding for drugs and vaccines. will you pull in dr. fauci for testimony and can you get that information out of that bureaucracy about what taxpayers paid for with the chinese bioweapons movement in beijing and elsewhere as it was researching these superviruses? >> yeah, liz, i think there will be two different committees that are drilling down on this. mike gallagher has been named to head this special select committee on china and that is going to be one of their top priorities is getting to the bottom of it. i think americans want to know if their government funded gain of function research in wuhan and it turned into you know, a virus that killed millions of people across the planet. and also comer's oversight committee is going to do the same. so i think you'll sigh two avenues of approach on one

issue. elizabeth: we're seeing more and more studies about the dangers of the vaccine, not just covid. nine fda researchers led a study on injuries to the lungs from covid-19 vaccines. pulmonary embolism. cleveland clinic did a stud indicating those vaccinated for covid got covid at a higher rate than those who chose not to get vaccinated. that relationship gets stronger more doses the of the vaccine the person got. you see ripple effect how this is damaging, this pandemic is damaging so many lives across the nation. >> this is why i've been against the vaccine mandate from the beginning. this is a revolutionary kind of vaccine with messenger rna. so you know you don't have longitudinal studies. that is why i said let's never do this vaccine as a mandate and here we are, we are seeing this. i am, i'm a physician as well. i have a lot of friend the

anecdotally saying to me that the people who are at highest risk for admission to the hospital now after getting covid are those that were previously vaccinated. so yeah, it is, it is not good. elizabeth: it is dangerous stuff. congressman green, congratulations again. we'll have you back on. good to see you. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: okay on top of the confusion in the skies, passengers on a d.c. to florida amtrak train were stranded for a day 1/2. it got so bad the conductor told passengers to stop calling 911. plus governor ron desantis is fighting multiple problems in florida. "the new york times" is complaining he is not giving legacy media enough attention? "the washington examiner"'s byron york here next on "the evening edit". ♪.

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elizabeth: he is back, washington examiner columnist and author, byron york. always a pleasure to see you.

this story, florida governor ron desantis has a lot of problems to deal with in florida but "the new york times" did a story solely focusing on complaints he is ignoring, not calling enough on legacy media at his press conferences. really? >> yes. they really did that. i think it simply shows the sense of entitlement that some in the media have about public figures. on the other hand ron desantis is the governor of florida. it's a very important position. he may run for president. it is kind of thing where you would want to see as a reporter, you want to see them do more press conferences. there have been a few complaints about president biden going months and months and months without having a press conference. so in general, as a reporter i favor public figures giving more access to reporters but there are more important things perhaps for "the new york times" to write about right now. elizabeth: maybe they're asking dumb questions and being

intertive. who knows. this story, byron, what do you think of this, governor desantis, is getting set to ask lawmakers to block china from buying farmland and homes in florida. what the governor said about this. watch. >> we don't want to have holdings by hostile nations. if you look at the chinese communist party they have been very active throughout the western hemisphere is gobbling up land and investing in different things, especially with president xi who has taken a much more marxist, leninist turn since he has been ruling china. that is not in the best interests of florida to have the chinese communist party owning farmland, owning land close to military bases. >> do you hear that, owning farmland, owning land near military bases. >> yeah. elizabeth: what did you think of this? it is really, i think reportedly

hard to track china's real estated buys? they're down through foreign holding companies. china is the third biggest, china is, across the nation. what did you think of this story? >> well, this is an area of bipartisan concern in washington these days. as far as desantis is concerned it may be one of these many areas where good policy is good politics because clearly there are concerns about china buying up large tracks of u.s. farmland for food security concerns and of course florida is one of our biggest agricultural states. the concerns about buying land close to u.s. military bases should seem pretty obvious. there is a lot of worry about that. we've seen some republicans try to take action in congress on this. this issue will get bigger and bigger and will not go away. it is probably a smart thing for

is on the ron desantis and other governments as well to do this. elizabeth: 2/3 of the house democratic congress voting for special select committee on china and its unfair practices. we want to get your reaction, a second, a second batch of confidential top secret classified documents found at a separate location. the president accused of mishandling classified documents, what is your take on the steer? >> well it is harder and harder for the president's defenders to dismiss this as no big deal or extremely different from the trump classified documents case. the thing to remember here, just as in the trump case is that we don't know what the documents are. are they really, really serious, the nation's most sensitive national defense secrets? or are they things that were overclassified and pretty much shouldn't have been secret in the first place? we still don't know that about the trump documents and we don't know that about biden either. elizabeth: we got a special

counsel on the trump documents but not on president biden. byron, there is now multiple, multiple locations being searched. so what do you make of that? also, should there be a special counsel on biden? >> well, it would seem to me, if the justice department has a conflict in investigating a man who is running against president biden in 2024, that is donald trump, they would have the same conflict in investigating their boss, the president of the united states. and seeing more examples of these of these documents being found in another location, raises more questions how this whole thing happened. the president's lawyers say it was on november 2nd and his lawyers were going through papers, closing up an office that he had had since after he left the vice-presidency and they were going to go open one

in the capitol and they come upon this and maybe they're in a box. maybe they're locked, make they're in a cabinet. it's really unclear what is happening with this and this discovery of the second bunch of documents makes the questions more urgent. elizabeth: byron york, thanks for joining us tonight. good to see you. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: on top of this confusion with the faa meltdown and what is going on in our nation's skies, passengers stranded on an amtrak train for a day 1/2? got so bad the conductor told passengers to stop calling 911. we got "the washington times" charlie hurt on "the evening edit" next. ♪ (woman 1) i just switched to verizon business unlimited. it's just right for my little business. unlimited premium data. unlimited hotspot data.

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elizabeth: look who is here back with us, charlie hurt, so good so see you, we have problems with faa meltdown. but this story, washington d.c. amtrak train, nonstop to orlando area. in florida, left monday evening, arrives 37 hours later are 20 hours late, they could have flown to tokyo, amtrak conductors heard to over loud speakinger to stop calling

passengers from calming calling 911. >> it was a car train, they could have driven in their car. it is ridiculous. absurd, and this all of this falls in to the bailiwick of our current transportation secretary. pete buttigieg. who spends all of his time apartisan apparently racist bridges and overpass, instead of serious work like this, you cannot purt fundamentally up sere yuserious people like this, who have now idea about how real things work in this world, put them in change of things, some people's leavings depend on this. -- briefs depend on this, you can't let them near this. elizabeth: she is focused on checking identity po boxes, and transportation

focused on justice, it is uninjustice who families are delayed to go to funerals. >> the latest faa disaster, you had the pilot information system shut down. this is not like you know a glitch in an airline that made you know people's boarding passes expire or you know some scheduling thing. this was the system that faa uses to alert pilots where and when they can l land their planes filled with humans, this was not a minor glitch of a scheduling system, this was a life and death system, this so bad, when the system went out, the faa turned to their back up system, they are supposed to have in place to safely land planes full of humans, safely. the back up system didn't work.

pete buttigieg is running around, you know tracking down racist over passes. they are not serious, they should not be near our infrastructure. elizabeth: he is flying government faa jets to media interviews, or sit downs with aclu in new york city, with you when you can skype. there is, that your reaction to second batch of top secret documents located in a second location by our president, there is a growing scandal. >> it is. this is astonishing. and it is very disturbing considering the degree to which this department of justice merrick garland and his department of justice, went after president trump, they raided a former president's private home, and pilfered through his

wife's closet. there is no difference between what the papers that were found at mar-a-lago under long and key and papers we're finding now that joe biden took out of the white house, by the way, as vice president, the papers that trump took, he took as president, a president can declassify anything he wants, a vice president c cannot. i would argue it is far worse what joe biden has done. it so politicized it goes after a former president the way it did and it raising requirement they install a special pros outer to go after the president. elizabeth: the documents were sitting around for 6 years after biden left the obama white house, and ledges to the biden family making money off of the president's job, the think

tanks, that biden penn center has funding from u-penn that got 54 million doeidonation from china. in penn center, meeting with ukraine officials and carpenter was direct lear director there. >> biden admits he wanted the papers because he was sois up owedily writing a back. >> thank you for joining us, that does it for us, i am elizabeth macdonald this is "the evening edit," have a good evening. kennedy: sleepy joe, more like sloppy joe, a new report claiming that white house just found another batch of the president's misplaced classified

documents, what are the chances. that is coming up.