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investigate president biden's mishandling of press classified documents. three discoveries including in his garage in wilmington, delaware. why the white house cannot downplay this scandal. did the white house lawyers have security clearance to handle nation's secrets. were intelligence sources compromised? why no visitors logs of biden's home in delaware? more links found between biden family incorporated and this scandal. with us congressman tim burchett, greg murky, darrell issa, tom dupree, liz peek, mitch roschelle, former deputy under counsel sol wisenberg and come men sense magazine chris bedford. they undercut a debunked democrat claim on trump russia. security pros slam the media for dismissing as conspiracy theories growing evidence that from scientists that the

pandemic did leak from a lab. cooling inflation as stubbornly high prices still hit your kitchen table. the white house slams "axios" for reporting on the historic crises under pete buttigieg who just called the first faa grounding of airplanes nationwide, quote, a data point. and the stunning new video inside of the amtrak train that stranded passengers for a day 1/2. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. got to check of your money. stocks bouncing higher, inflation cooled to 6 1/2% in december. 10-year bond yield used for bank loan rates dropping below 3 1/2%. companies kick off earnings this week. big banks are reporting here is the deal. wall street setting the bar low. they're expecting s&p 500 profits to drop for the first time since the pandemic,

potentially 10% down. now to attorney general garland appointing a special counsel to probe national security violations in president biden's miss land mishandling ever top secrete classified documents. these discoveries. the all three locations were not secure. fox news's peter doocy at the white house with more. >> reporter: liz, white house officials are insisting from the tom down they have been transparent in this process. >> thank you, karine another one on garage gate. what is the white house trying to hide? >> nothing. >> reporter: some one gave the president a statement to read on tuesday, that was incomplete at best, misleading at first, so who? >> i read out the president's statement, i read it out yesterday what he said. he said that he respects or he takes classified information and documents very seriously.

>> reporter: earlier today president biden addressed this issue himself. >> reporter: classified material next to your corvette, what were you thinking? president biden: let me, get a chance to speak on all of this god willing soon, but as i said earlier this week, by the way, my corvette is in a locked garage. not like sitting out in the street. >> reporter: locked garage. >> as well as my corvette. >> reporter: they are saying two different things to let the process play out, but they are confident once it does the special counsel will determine that the president misplaced documents inadvertently. liz? elizabeth: peter doocy, thank you so much good reporting as always. joining us congressman tim burchett from house foreign affairs, former deputy assistant attorney general, tom dupree. good to have you both on. first to you, congressman, your

reaction to that report? >> i'm not surprised but the one thing i think you need to look at too, democrats have not been briefed yet. they're rushing to have a trump-appointed attorney general as the special counsel which will slow the investigation down i suspect and also democrats not being briefed to me is a huge flare sent up saying hey, we want plausible deniability. do not fill us in on any of this information. elizabeth: to what the congressman just said, mr. dupree, good to see you again too, ag garland is saying none of the hoecations guiden had the documents at were secure including his garage in wilmington. he held them six years after the obama white house. nbc report federal law enforcement officials questioning multiple biden aides. is this the standard okay to lock them in your lodge because you have a corvette there or a muscle car? >> i will go out on a limb, liz,

say that is not the standard. what happened is indefensible in my judgment. i'm shocked, his staff, biden staff would let him get out there criticizing president trump for careless handling documents while at the same time biden was storing documents in his office, in his house, in his garage. you would think someone along the road, mr. president, are you sure you're not guilty of the same thing? elizabeth: to your point, listen to the press secretary getting hit with a barrage of questions but addressing none of what we're talking about now. watch this. >> can you shed any light how the documents got to these places and why? >> i would defer you to the department of justice or my colleagues in the counsel's office but again i'm just not going beyond what the president said. i'm not going beyond what the president said. i'm not going beyond what the president said. again i'm not going into the particulars or specifics what the department of justice did. again there is on going process. it is being reviewed. don't have any, don't have more to share.

>> was it because -- >> there is a process, ongoing process that is occurring. elizabeth: congressman, why did the white house cover this up because they were discovered before the first set were discovered before the midterms? >> this would play into the elections just like hunter biden laptop would. these investigative committees that speaker is appointing will get to the bottom of this. i know james comer and jim jordan are both chomping at the bit to get at this and they should because this just plays right into the abuse of the justice department that we've seen all along, several other alphabet agencies. they will get to the bottom of it. but the problem is, is the timing of all of this. it was clearly delayed to the public. then this latest, thrown it out as soon as they got it. that tells you right there they're guilty as sin by this thing by keeping it covered up around election time and corruption in the justice department.

merrick garland needs to go. this is pathetic this is another indication of that. elizabeth: tom, what do you think of this? it has been pointed out that ag garland appointed special counsel jack smith to investigate mar-a-lago on november 18th but that was two weeks after biden family lawyers discovered on november 2nd these top secret documents on ukraine, iran, the uk, in his think tank in d.c. in a closet. then they notified national air curves. tom, they would have then notified the doj, right? >> they sure should have. what is so puzzling, liz, the garland justice department, new quickly a lack criminality, raiding mar-a-lago with the sense of your again system that same urgency is not going on with biden. they know about this for months. they haven't disclosed it. they concealed it. the justice department appointed a special counsel. it raises a question what took them so darn long to do this?

>> what took them so long, congressman. do the biden family lawyers do they have have national security clearances to see state secrets? were the same lawyers that worked on biden family deal making? does attorney/client privilege play into this here? >> they have absolutely no security clearance i can just about guarranty that. interesting the president of the united states is the only person can declass fight documents, what they were claiming trump did he did not. biden did not have the ability to do that as vice president because these documents documene stored or lifted back when he was vice president under barack obama. >> tom, to what the congressman is saying, trump voters feel that trump was railroaded. that he is getting disparate treatment. you see here the seeket service again says it checked, still cannot find any visitor logs or any records that identify the visitors to president biden's

residences in delaware. he spent roughly a quart of his presidency there. there are fears there is a lot of stonewalling and gaslighting, sort of cavalier recklessness on part of the biden family using the government as its own private playground to make money off of, treat nation's top secrets in such a cavalier, reckless way, where they raided trump's mar-a-lago. there is really -- by the way is where is democrats like adam schiff or caroline maloney or jerry nadler and eric swalwell? where are they demanding the damage assessments? where are the photos of these classified documents laid out on the floor as they did with trump mar-a-lago? >> those are all fair questions and i mean really is striking when you kind of hold up, you juxtapose what happened with the trump mar-a-lago raid and what has been happening or not happening with the biden investigation. it really does seem like there is a double standard here. i think there are a lot of good

questions. i think it is very significant we'll now have two investigations moving ahead in parallel. we'll have the new special counsel's investigation going on. he will be fully armed with subpoena power, the powers of the justice department to get to the bottom of this. at the same time on the hill, the congressional investigations will move forward. my guess at the end of the day we'll get a lot of answers to these questions. elizabeth: personally, maybe i've been doing journalism for too long, i've been at it since 1986, maybe i'm dating myself, i guess i am, when i see the media downplaying it prejudge it, there is no there, there, talking about top secrets of iran, uk, and edward snowden on twitter eastern i handled classified documents more securely. i kept them encrypted. who handled biden's closet. inside of a general suite inside of a think tank inside of d.c. people could have accessed them.

even it is one document, it is our nation's secrets. they are not for him to use. >> yes, ma'am, that could cost people their lives, maybe you have never, i've been in briefings. they go over some very highly sensitive things. they list people, places names and dates, everything and they could cost people their lives and it could, and, endangers our national security. look what is going on with china and everything. you do not think they had their fingers on this? you would hope they wouldn't but due to his son's business dealings with the communist chinese you've got to question that, you have to bring all of that to the table. all of this needs to be brought out. think keep saying transparency, dad gum mitt there is not any trans transparency. elizabeth: nobody is letting trump off the hook. human intelligence sources could be compromised there. that is the deal, tom, that is the danger here. for anybody in the media to downplay this, this is hinge point for them where their

credibility is at stake, too, tom. final word. >> i agree with that, liz. joe biden knew better. he served in documents for decades. he knows he can't take classified information with him when i leaves the government, precisely for all the reasons we've been mentioning. elizabeth: he was chair of senate foreign relations. in d.c. since the nixon era. this is now, turning point america is seeing how reckless and cavalier this president has dealt with his government job. final word, congressman. >> the president is a liar, he is pathologically almost to that point and he is not well. i think it is time that his party needs to look at him say, we've got a real problem here. we need to remove him from office immediately because of the situation that is a veiled itself. elizabeth: congressman burchett, tom dupree, thanks for joining us. good to see you. we'll stay on the special counsel probe throughout the hour.

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♪ elizabeth: look who is back with us now, from the house gop doctors caucus, he is the co-chair, dr. greg murphy. good to see you. sir, this story is coming in, 43 national security experts, two of the names, robert o'brien, the former nsa, also matthew pottinger, former deputy national security advisor, they signed an open letter slamming news outlets like "the new york times," "time" magazine and "the lancet" because their reporters dismissed as just quote conspiracy theories the growing evidence from scientist the pandemic likely did leak from a lab in china. what do you make of this story? >> well, it is very interesting, we actually had a briefing this morning in the doctors caucus meaning, dr. from the senate health committee showing the whole chronology from this. goes back to the virology. i won't bore people with details

of this, early on fauci had, his colleagues at the nih had great suspicion this did come from the lab. there were emails that showed this. all of sudden, hey, let's not go down that narrative they will look our funding of the wuhan lab. so, boom, the narrative got pushed the other way. as what happens, everybody is a conspiracy theorist, but you know i said this all along, if it looks like a duck, smells like a duck, my gosh, it must abduct. it goes back to show that the overwhelming evidence this came from a lab, most likely, it leaked by accident but was most likely engineered as part of gain of function research, it got out of the lab. look at what china did? china shut down domestic flights, first when it came out, started working on a vaccine towards this right about the time we actually started finding out about it. so, no, i'm sorry, i think the proof will show, we'll never know for sure because china you

know, gave 10 months to the w.h.o. before they came in and they cleaned up their lab, but, i never, we'll never know for sure, but by god, scientifically this looks like it came out of the lab. elizabeth: it has never been found in nature yet, right? it hasn't been found? >> no. viruses very similar to this are found in nature. elizabeth: but mutate? >> when you tweak these things a little bit, there are signals, certain sequences that are very easily identifiable not being natural. this is what we found. elizabeth: here's a question, the world has been living with bats for millenia, for centuries, bat coronaviruses. all of sudden this jumped out of the blue, not only jumped but skyrocketed infections and containing discussness. sars and merz trudged along for years and popped. this went off hike fireworks. senate health committee, you and

i talked about this, last october they put out a report this was most likely the result of a research accident at the lab. the question is where is patient zero? china didn't let us get to this. 15 million people dead, 15 million people worldwide dead, hundreds, millions dead here in the u.s. 16 trillion in losses for the u.s. alone. why does democrats like jerry nadler call this stuff, conspiracy theory? shouldn't we get to the bottom of it? >> i can't ever speak for mr. nadler. i don't even bear that. this is not conspiracy this is science. remember when fauci came out and said i am science? what this has done, liz, this has deteriorated, absolutely deteriorated the respect and the, the feeling of the country for the institute of medicine what we are as physicians. basically you had these liars come out and push a narrative

one way or the other that was just not true. fauci, you and i talked about this, if he came out, these are things we know, things we don't know, was honest with the american people we would be in a much better understanding position but for nadler to poo-poo it, his word is about as good as schiff for me. i just, i discuss don't put much credence in it. elizabeth: congressman murphy, thanks for joining us tonight. great to see you. >> have a nice evening. >> good to see you again. we've got more on the twitter files. we're digging in undercut debunked democrat claim on trump russia. turns out this claim again is false. white house premature victory lap on cooler inflation but stubbornly high prices are still hitting your kitchen able. we'll dig in, look who is here, economic pros liz peek and mitch roschelle next on "the evening edit." ♪

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the prices of large ticket items like cars and appliances. they came down but that last point has some market watchers very worried that could indicate customers started holding off on big purchases, which could be a concern for spending going forward. the president taking a victory lap over inflation coming down to 6 1/2%. president biden: lowest unemployment rate in half a century. my first two years in office were the two strongest years for job growth on record. we created nearly 11 million jobs including 750,000 manufacturing jobs. >> reporter: let's fact check the president for a second the 3 1/2% unemployment rate tie as 50 year reached under past administration. the economy added back all the lost jobs in the pandemic and created openly 1.2 million jobs. the economy added back all of the manufacturing jobs lost during the pandemic and actually created 149,000 jobs. the bottom line for this inflation report is that the

federal reserve will likely raise rates at the next meeting 25 basis points. the same hike at the second meeting of the year and then a pause to see how the economy handles it and if inflation keeps coming down. elizabeth: edward lawrence. >> thank you so much. fox news contributor liz peek and mitch roschelle with macrotrend advisors. liz, what is the reaction to the president's report? because the president is misleading americans by factor of 10 with his own job growth performance f it is true he added 11 million jobs on top of what he didn't lose under the pandemic don't you think inflation would be rocketing to 20%? >> liz, basically the economy has come back, that is really what happened. it has absolutely nothing to do with joe biden's policies, and look, i mean we all hoped that the economy remains strong through this year.

the signals are not very good. you still have an inverted yield curve. awful lot of people are talking recession. as far as this inflation number goes, i really, i kind of agree agree with your lead-in, people are jumping up and down for joy and hard to figure out why. the core inflation number increased in december, compared to november. a whole category of goods got more expensive, not less month to month. and by the way, the big gain was a downturn in energy. i think that was sort of expected, but there is a big variable here. what is going to happen with china? if china comes back strongly, you are going to see energy prices start to go up again. so these numbers would look very, very different if gasoline prices and heating oil had not gone down. thankfully they did. let's sell operate that but we're not out of the woods here. elizabeth: yeah, so, blackrock is saying the same thing that liz is saying. liz is making some important points, a lot of important points here, mitch.

the white house, should they be taking a victory lap? look at eggs, fuel oil, butter, coffee, you're still way up double digits. >> the stock market is not certainly taking a victory lap. dig into the numbers. the reality is, the workforce has shrunk during biden's administration. there are less people in the workforce. so great, we're creating jobs but we're actually losing people in the workforce which is what is driving down the unemployment rate. and that the thing that really concerns me as it relates to the fed, if you look deeply at this inflation number, 40% of the inflation number is shelter costs. shelter costs which is rent, the cost of mortgages, living in a home, went up .8 of 1% and the only way to control that is for the fed to continue to raise interest rates and try to grind down the housing market, try to drive down rents. so there's a lot of bad news in there, not victory lap worthy in

my view. elizabeth: to what mitch just said, liz, are you concerned we're turning upside down in this country in terms of the government paying people not to work? remember fdr called that, you know, all those government handouts, quote a narcotic. jfk said the best form of welfare is a job. blackrock is warning investors are underestimating, consumers are underestimating threat of stubbornly high inflation and elevated interest rates. what do you think about all of that? >> i think we need more people working, there is no doubt about it. you know, what is surprising in december is that wages began to cool off a little bit. i don't think that is going to continue. i think biden's big push for unionization, the fact that strikes are increasing, i think workers this year are going to demand big hefty wage increases. you can't blame them because the cost of living has gone through the roof, most people are lagging behind. we'll see wages as a sticky

problem. look, i would love to see the fed back off, decide that we don't have an inflation problem anymore. stock market goes through the roof. i just think that is early. i don't think that is happening yet. i think people who continue to think that jay powell will take an easier path here, i just think they're wrong. last week he again came out and sounded pretty darn aggressive on tackling inflation. he knows he is behind the curve. i don't think he is going to give this up anytime soon. elizabeth: to what liz peek just said, blackrock is saying, mitch, they see little chance of the federal reserve even cutting rates if we head into a recession. so that is what blackrock is saying. you know, from the pandemic, forward, did we turn upside down as a nation in terms of paying people not to work, mitch? >> well, 100%. we've certainly changed the culture of a generation. you know, the youngest generation that are just entering the workforce have a

completely distorted view of what work is and they found themselves getting handouts including but not limited to the fact that student loans may get paid off. i think we have completely perverted the view of what working is. and to blackrock's point, i think, listen the fed got it wrong. they said that inflation was transitory. they made a huge mistake there and they're not going to back off the path of raising rates because they already made one big mistake. elizabeth: i wish i could talk to you guys all night because this was a great interview with both of you, i'm not just saying that. liz peek, mitch roschelle. that was informative. we're coming out of the bottom of the hour. for more on my take on inflation, democrats overspending created a new abnormal for our nation, i wrote an op-ed. love for you to read it. it is live on foxnews.com. give us your feedback. also this, more links found

between biden family, incorporated and president biden's mishandling of classified documents. we have got the story. we have the new twitter files. they're undercutting a false and debunked democrat claim on trump russia. sol wisenberg, former deputy independent counsel, he will join us next on "the evening edit". ♪.

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for tips on when and how to have the vape talk. ♪ elizabeth: look who is back, sol wisenberg, former deputy independent counsel. happy new year. great to see you again. >> thanks, liz, great to be here. elizabeth: what do you make of ag garland appointing a special counsel robert herr to investigate classified documents? media saying no there, there. some documents involve iran and uk. we don't even know if the human intelligence sources were compromised? >> first of all it is ridiculous

for anybody to say there is no there, there. these documents have just been revealed. there is no choice for an investigation. for garland, this is a smart political move. there is no downside doing it. there is no downside if he doesn't appoint a special counsel. elizabeth: twitter i officials inside the company claiming there was no there there, democrats claiming russian bots and patrols in 2016 election with helping trump. they found no evidence of that. jerry nadler said this was a real thing. "the washington post" put out a story that russian trolls had little influence on 2020. >> twitter folks actually thought the democrats were acting in good faith. they were actually trying to explain to them that there is no there there. they finally realized they were

being had. it didn't stop them from caving in. ultimately caving in to the incest ant demands of the fbi and democrats. it was really opening, they told senator feinstein, they told adam schiff, and told clearly senator blumenthal there is no there, there, we're not seeing evidence of russian bots. they were ignored and bullied. it is very disheartening. >> house oversight will likely bring this up because they're summoning former twitter executives to testify. reportedly seems like early february about twitter censorship of, you know, that manipulating the narrative on things like trump russia. matt taibbi says we need a truth and reconciliation committee on russia-gate. glenn greenwald, russia-gate was one of the most unhinged moments in modern times, that trump colluded with russia to hack hillary and dnc e-mails.

>> well you will never have a truth in reconciliation commission as long as you have the corruption you now have in the mainstream media. even now if you watch msnbc, if you watch cnn they still talk about russian collusion with trump as if it is an established fact. so it is really a form, intellectually a form of book banning or book burning because you suppress the whole story for four years and created a counter narrative. it is too bad. elizabeth: former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein testified in august of 2017 there was no evidence of collusion, right? we understand what the mueller report found of trump campaign having connections to russian individuals and the like but you know, that it is sort of like there was a, there was an emotional reaction on the part of some in the media to attach themselves to the story without dispassionately looking at the facts. and also, you had people like

james baker, former top deputy counsel at twitter, he worked under james comey at fbi under trump russia. you have all these intelligence officials moving and working with twitter including the fbi. then moving into the media in places like msnbc and cnn. >> as we talked about before the fbi has always done that kind of thing but never before with big media giants like they did this time, like they did in 2017 and in spades in 2021 and so that is what is so new and so dangerous in a way. elizabeth: sol, you and i we talked about it, we have not let trump off the hook for some of the things he has done when he crossed the line. certainly about the mar-a-lago classified document problem. it is just feels like, when a journalist is emotionally attached to the story, they shouldn't be on the story. they should move off the story. >> well, again, look at the way

that matt taibbi has been attacked. everybody who has reported on these twitter files. why wouldn't you want to know? why wouldn't anybody want to know this? don't you want to know the kind of documents that, that vice president biden kept? i mean everybody should want to know that just like they want to know about president trump. elizabeth: got it. sol wisenberg, always a pleasure to have you on. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: same here. get ready, we want you to adjust your calendars and schedules if you're up for it, we're so excited to announce that the "evening edit," we're going to move one hour earlier to 5:00 p.m. eastern time starting january 23rd. we are going to appear right after larry kudlow. we'll have a fun time with larry kudlow. we cannot wait. also this story, looks like the white house is getting very testy, chief of staff ron klain reportedly slams "axios" for reporting historic crises under

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elizabeth: joining us now, look who is here, california congressman darrell issa. congressman, a pleasure having you back on. president biden's mishandling of classified documents more and more feels like we're at the tip of the iceberg, congressman. it looks like intersecting with the president profiting off of hunter biden's john. email, 2016 well before biden establishes the think tank, the biden center, penn center about getting an office at that same

think tank. what do you think of that? >> well i think that with over $10 million of money coming into that think tank from the communist chinese, over a million dollars being paid to joe biden, hadding hunter biden is adding a frosting on top of a already large cake. in addition to the third different group of mishandled classified documents. you only have to make the mistake once, have, by the way six years, two years, before discovery, before people start saying really, is this all there is? where were the controls, particularly on an open garage door? elizabeth: the nation cannot lower its standards when it comes to top secrets, u.s. secrets because human intelligence sources could be compromised, they could be put at risk. this think tank to your point was connected to the university of pennsylvania. it got $54 million in donations of china.

looks like still operating. 10 days before the email, hunter would meet with the university president of upenn amy gut man. y is upenn taking millions of dollars of donations from china, stopping stealing university r&d research, so-called talents program. what was going on there? >> it's a great question. my home state, california, also takes in millions of dollars from the communist chinese. they also have classified information at many of the universities. we obviously are great research facilities and what's interesting is, the california huge cap -- calpers fund won't invest in a whole bunch of u.s. companies because they're not socially responsible enough, but happy to invest china for some

reason as they use slave labor and steel technology. elizabeth: that is interesting. watch eric swalwell here. watch this. >> i would also like maybe in the future for republicans and democrats to maybe agree we should find a better way to inventory classified documents so that something like this never happens again. >> i mean, critics are saying did swalwell prove why kevin mccarthy removed him from house intelligence? is that the standard, inventory literally billions of pages of documents? it would turn the whole government looking like back room warehouse of "raiders of the lost ark." is that the standard, or do you not take them at all, not take them, don't hold on to them for six years, don't put them in your garage with your corvette, don't put them in a clossette at your think tank. that is the standard. >> that is the standard. whether hillary clinton having a server unclassified with classified information or these boxes that had classified and unclassified information, the

real rule is, don't comingle classified and other documents that only leads to exactly what the bidens have done. elizabeth: congressman issa, a pleasure having you on. come back soon. >> will do. elizabeth: white house chief of staff getting testy, reportedly slamming "axios" for reporting on the historic crises under pete buttigieg who now calls the faa first nationwide grounding of 9/11 of all airplanes a quote, data point? stunning new video of inside of the stranded amtrak train that stranded passengers for a day 1/2. chris bed for of common sense magazine joins us next. et's dig. mm. ...a "chow down" day... a "take a big bite" day... a "perfectly delicious" day... - mm. [ chuckles ] - ...a "love my new teeth" day. because your clearchoice day is the day everything is back on the menu.

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elizabeth: look who is back with us. chris bedford, good to see you. >> you too. elizabeth: we have this video coming in of chaos in the amtrak train that stranded passengers for 37 hours, it arrived 20 hours late from dc to orlando. let's watch what happened. >> for those calling police, we're not holding you hostage. we're giving you all of the information. --

elizabeth: chris, they were stuck on the train for over a day and a half, you could have flown to tokyo in that time, they had to have pizza delivered, people were smoking out windows, there were petting on board. this is chaos on amtrak. what was your thought? >> i thought, was i was glad i resisted all of the the invitations to take a train south of dc, if you are not between boston and washington, amtrak is a mess. if you traveling amtrak in california for example, you are warned by a 12 travel web site to express hours or days delays. when something like this goes wrong, the crew can no longer legally work after a period of time.

our rail system, compared with europe or asia is a mess. elizabeth: we have white house chief of staff, ripping into axios reports that transportation secretary com pete buttigieg. he called the groundings a data point. >> this gives us an updata point and moment. to understand what we're needing moving forward. >> i would think, americans seem to be getting really tired of political rhetoric. the political flannel. calling it a data point. too many times with working your talking points on tv it feels dubious and insincere. >> i think a lot of americans are waking up to

this. the lines at cargo ports, break downs at faa, you look at faa budget they are spending millions to equity and including, they should not be near their, much amer, amer american rerealized that institutions and politicians have failed them, the last year we realize the things that keep us connected are starting to break. they can't keep it going on. >> many places. americans are seeing half their paycheck to the government. federal, state and local. should we have a west point grad running the transportation department? rick scott is demanding answers. >> pete buttigieg is a mayor of fourth largest town in indiana or city, someone who

had potholes and difficults, he is supposed to be put in an easy position, he is out of his d depth for this job, they are not yelling at pete buttigieg they don't am he is capable of helping them, he is stuck here, she the wrong person for this job. elizabeth: why do the americans get stuck with substandard stuff. >> politics, he was an up and coming democrat this was a safe place for bib biden administration to put him for his political career that was a mistake. thank you. >> chris bedford, i am elizabeth macdonald this is "the evening edit," have a good evening. kennedy: hello, breaking news, attorney general merrick garland, he is not on the supreme court, he