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state of the union, the true state of the union he does not want you to see. elizabeth: voters tell gallup that government is america's biggest problem. house launches the first pandemic thought probe. congressman darrell issa will join us and also steve moore. and "new york post" jon levine, and washington examiner's byron york. and d n nicole niely. socialist bernie sanders accused of ticket price gouging for his anticapitalism event. and capitalist aoc you never saw. this new twist, fbi did search president biden's think tank in mid november. for mish mishandled hus

u.s. secrets and eric swalwell has a new plan, personally attack g.o.p. credibility. elizabeth: photos they don't want you to see how green energy is rot rotten cotat the core, i am elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: welcome to the show, look at your money stocks ending up to close out january, employment costs rose at slowest pace in a year. the markets are pricing in a quarter point federate hike for tomorrow, we have a lot for you, president biden against confusing claims only the supreme court who has power to end covid state

of emergency? no they don't, he has the power, he said he would do it in may. hillary vaughn on capitol hill with more. reporter: the president making it official declaring an end to public health emergency. surrounding covid, 4 months after he declared that pandemic is over. the president when asked about his decision today, was not in a mood to celebrate and seems apathetic about this. >> it the end -- reporter: president misspoke, official end date is may 11, not up to supreme court, but president's decision to declare an emergency and also to end an emergency. a fight that is happening in supreme court whether or not biden student loan bailout paying off 20 thousand w

dollars of debt on taxpayer's dime is c c constitutional or not. one part of the plan, is now going to cost a lot more, group writing this: >> more than twice as much that cost estimate realized by the biden administration. the costs in addition to one time cost of direct loan forgiveness we estimated at 469 billion. the public health emergency is over may 11, the biden administration has not restarted student loan payments any earlier, they are scheduled to start back up at en end of june. a month after the emergency is over.

>> thank you so much. >> joining us now. former cvo director, and also stephen moore. let's talk about the real state of the union. why is president waitingme until may to stop the state of me emergency for covid. >> i have no idea. most people believe that u.s. economy, exited it in 2021 early, this is giving up powers. they have not used the powers very effectively, the president was development a great hand. and two years later the numbers have been reversed. in between we've seen a mishandles of macro economy and we're paying for it. elizabeth: you know president is about to show a

false picture to the world next week. about the state of the economy, even cnn has fact checked president's growing number of false claims, he claimed he funded 700 thousand construction projections last year, it was 7 thousand. he inherited a economy in an upswing and now gallup said that america's number one problem is government and bad leadership. >> that is for sure. to add what douglas was talking about, let your viewers know, by expanding the declaration of covid emergency more government benefits to people. this president is just showered the welfare benefits on people, this is a lot health care benefits that people are getting for free would go away when the emergency is over.

and repeat what you said. the student loan forgiveness this is incredible. he asserts executive authority to do the student loan forgiveness because of the covid emergency. what does student loaner to giveness have to do with covid. this president uses every possible excuse to expand the budget. he will not try to take -- will try to take a victory lap on the budget next week, talk about lowers expectations. as doug said, we should be growing at 5% coming out of covid, we're growing at half. elizabeth: right. the president has -- on track, for third year in a row not to even turn in his own presidential budget. the real problem is the economy is going upside down under biden. millions are dropping out, government is paying more people not to work.

10 million now not working, 7 million working age men dropping out. government workers, not showing up. watch james comer and steve scalise on this. >> americans have suffered because of federal government's detrimental pandemic era telework policies, reports show 2 out of 3 workers still have not returned to their office full time. president biden's unnecessary expansion of telework crippled the ability of agencies to get their jobs done, creating massive backlogs. >> back two years, joe biden was paying two people to not work, millions took him up on that, those people are not paying into social security joe biden is paying then to sit home, that is what joe biden did undermines social security much he did it he doesn't want to get the blame, no nobody thinks you should

have to pay for someone sittingal hoal at home who is able body and able to work. >> this administration has one trick. they have supply side policy, that is higher taxes, that won't work. less intensives for people to did to work. and quietly, they are one of most burdensome regulatory regimes. this is you know hundreds of billions a year in tax increases, there is no strategy to let the american economy grow. elizabeth: to what doug said, you found this out too, it pay more to get government handouts in a growing number of states than a teacher or a worker

or firefighter or truck driver. that is turning the economy upside downj. >> to be specific that is a couple, receiving up. unemployment benefits, that is unfair to those who are working hard fought 40 hours a week. another statistic, this is he keeps saying he has lowered deficit by 1.4 trillion dollars we heard him say that m multiple times, he massively expanded the deficit to 2.8 trillion in 2021. then it came down to 1.4 trillion, that is still a record. in debt, he is celebrating

that, unco uncorking champagne. elizabeth: we have fallen through the looking glass with this white house. thank you so much. joining us now "new york post" columnist jon levine. we know u.s. debt is more than 31 trillion. by millionaire socialist 1% congressman that includes bernie sanders. when you heard story that bernie sanders is accused much ticket price gouges charging up to 95 dollars for his anticapitalism event, he will rail against capitalism, what do you think. >> this is the newest chapter in a very old story. every is a socialist for others. bernie sanders has preached about wonders of socialism,

now he has a book talk about how evil capitalism is where he charges up to almosts thetoal $100 a person. person. a very old story. elizabeth: pay a lot of money to bernie sanders. $28 to buy his book so you too can learn to be angry at a capitalism system where a socialist capitalist like bernie sanders can be a millionaire. the far left gets inside government, they blowout spending and expect tax payers to pay for every item they want, there is something rotten in dc . >> these are not people who held a real job. people like bernie sanders

have been in government jobs their whole life, they never had to make a paycheck, it has always been spending other people's money, not surprising that someone with a mind sit like that would be a socialist. elizabeth: we know far left social lift. >> capitalism is to me is an ideology of capital. it puts capital the most important thing the concentration of capital and it means that we seek and prioritize profit and accumulation of money above all else and we seek it at any human and environmental cost that is what that means, to me that ideology is not sustainable and cannot be redeemed. elizabeth: okay, first, you don't seek it at any human environmental cost. unless it is green energy.

aoc hates capitalism so much she has 4 web pages on her campaign site you can buy her campaign merchandise, the $80 hoodies, and the 30 dollar grocery bags. >> that clips deeply embarrassing you could about the world we live in today, the world that capitalism has brought us, we live better than richest kings and queens of ancient times, more people have more a abundants. that is all because of capitalism, socialism is just everywhere it has been tried it has failed and always the same line, well that wasn 't real socialism, give us one more chance, they put a fork in the light socket 50 times, and say the 51st time we won't get

shocked. and the hoodie, that is partly so expectsive, she insists on making everything in america with high union labor. you know, you really need to make that stuff in china if you want it to be affordable. elizabeth: that is communism. house oversight is launching sharings on pandemic relief fraud. democrats and presidents are not saying anything about that the billions of our tax money they flew -- blew out the backdoor. >> now we're seeing reporting that over 5 billion dollars of pandemic relief money was pilfered by bad actors, i am a little bit of two minds in 2020 -- elizabeth: you are talking social security. >> yes. in 2020, the government shut down businesses. and there needed to be some

rem remediation, a lot of money was spent there was clear fraud and abuse. elizabeth: taxpayers are not rounding errors, our viewers are not rounding errors, john levine thank you so much. follow jon levine on twitter, and read his columns. >> tomorrow we will have senator rand paul, on covid fraud and fest vice report and how he is champions stopping government -- and governor rick scott on his let's get to work act. this new twist, fbi did search president biden's think tank in mid november. for mishandled u.s. secrets, white house now accused of covering that up. >> pfizer under fire, allegedly doing gain of

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marty, let's handle this, why is president still holding on to his pandemic powers until mid may. >> well because. it fulfills an agenda that this is a really big deal event the background is comparable. i don't think that anyone thinks we need 5 more months to stomp out this infection then we'll be good to go. elizabeth: this allows for more emergency spending or activity. this whole fight, let's turn to, over pfizer and undercover video with the executive. in statement pfizer indicates it does quote engineer viruses to enable the assessment of antiviral activity. it is important what it says, it does do engineering of viruses, to just monitor and -- antiviral activity in human cells, is that

gain-of-function research to manufacture and manipulate viruses for profit. >> they may be doing it on computer simulators, but leaving the door ajar in case they want to or doing some form of viewer aus manipulation. i don't think they are frankensteining new viewer deviruses as in wuhan lab. pfizer has had some questionabli ethical activity in the past. the bigger story is, is pfizer forthright with data once they have it. we have never heard the data on the pregnancy trial they started, they closed it, the results were never made public about 18 months ago. elizabeth: they said, such viruses may be engineered. not done on a computer.

pfizer is denying that and alling you know people call it now not gain-of-function but directed evolution. they didn't say it was a computer, but engineering a virus. that where statement people are raising questions after this video came out from that executive for pfizer saying they do that for profit for vaccines and drugs. senator ru rubio sent a letter. >> that is a good letter, the public wants answers. you look at gain-of-function research in totality, we should ban it. why are we not seeing's call for all out global ban in perpetuity of all gain-of-function research. >> let's show senator marco rubio's letter, he wants information on what pfizer is doing to understand everything they do work with

spike protein and more. this is important because house g.o.p.es about to you know probe this. your final word. >> i think any company that is manipulating viruses should do so under real-time survey lint there should be cameras in the lab it all should be public information and authorized, most of this standing in opposition to moratorium that obama put on gain-of-function research, that flies in conflict with that. elizabeth: well, thank you dr. marty. >> this piece coming up, eric swalwell is out with a new plan, he will say to everyone, personally attack republicans' credibility, and this new twist. fbi did search president biden's think tank in mid november for mishandled u.s. secrets. white house accused of covering that up, congressman darrell issa on "the evening edit" next.

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this is second time fbi searched property biden team had gone through. members of senate en intelligence committee are irate. >> they belong to the intelligence agencies that authored them. they should be answering to us if they don't i think we'll have to begin to do some things we can do here in terms of authorizes signing off funding until they respond to us. reporter: others corn certained about who may have had access to the classified documents found. so far there have been no briefings for congress on the documents, members of intelligence committee say director of national intelligence is working on something they can brief on some of the information soon. elizabeth: edward thank you. >> we welcome darrell issa. congressman, there that story, now we have this story. reporting that president biden think tank, was

searched in mid november. for preliminary u.s. secrets. no one disclosed that to the american people. >> well, you know when you have something story like this, usually you want to do is get ahead of it, get ita all out then ask for forgiveness. in this case the drip, drip of new information covered up or not honestly reported, makes people wonder how many more there is and why. accidents happen. but this is getti is get -- beyond accidents this is getting into a cover-up, this is where senator warner and rubio come together to bipartisan bases to demand specific briefing as to the material. elizabeth: biden white house claims they are cooperating, but you have president's topptoppin te tellgence officials accused

of stonewalling, the doj yesterday rebuffed a request to provide details. >> i don't know any other way, to say it house republican. -- there should be an in review of the characteristics of the documents and speaker of the house, senate majority leader, they have a right and need to know at this point. they are not getting it. elizabeth: watch the president try to claim he us kndoes k doesn't know about the criminal probe. >> if the special counsel were starting to week ask for your testimony would you give testimony. >> i don't know about that special counsel. >> i have no regrets, i'm following what the lawyers have told me they want me to

do, that is what we're doing. there is no there, there. >> anyone that was in business with the bidens that were on the accounts, that were partners in the llc 's, i think they need to tell everyone what the business was. you have 2 or 3 million dollar wires from a company afaffiliated with chinese's company party, what service were you providing it was not real estate, they not manufacturing anything. elizabeth: saying this is about a investigation of president and biden family's profiteering off his government job, that is the allegation. biden's treasury blocking relief of 150 suspicious activity reports, congressman you and i have said that is an unusual large number.

>> it is a political blocking on behalf of the president. these kinds of events are rare, you get one or two, usually your bank account gets closed and you get told to take your business somewhere else, to beat a hundred of theme represents a lot of scary people transferring money in a lot of unexplained transmissions of money. it needs to be looked at. elizabeth: congressman issa thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. elizabeth: house judiciary threaten subpoenas in case of fbi bullying school board parents. >> discredited d democrat eric swalwell has a new plan. >> byron york is next in "the evening edit."

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against house investigations. they are working behind the scenes to stop them. let's listen to democrat eric swalwell's new plan to go against the house republicans. >> i see it you know brad as a 3-d strategy of discredit them before they are out of the game, there is enough to do that, you don't have to make things up, they do it for you. make sure you know from the get, foundationally it is clear these guys have no credibility, james comer, someone that voted to deny you know the outcome of the election, someone who has stood up and defended general flynn one of leading insurrectionists, he should come to table with zero credibility. elizabeth: comer did vote to you know certify the election. and later on, same conversation, he appears to say that hunter biden laptop story is credible. what do you make of

swalwell? >> first, democrats have an all hands on deck effort now to defend hunter biden and try to frustrate the republican investigationses in the house. they have a few options, some people in white house whowhoment to say hunter biden is a private citizen. he didn't do anything wrong, that is a difficult case to make because of all can tatack -- contacts about his father and business issues. and hunter biden of the trading on his father's name, preferred method of defending hunter biden is to attack republicans, it is a well worn ju script. it usually plays well in media, but the problem is swalwell got it wrong about

comer. james comer. he explained he read about the process, and decided it was not the house's role to reject the certification. elizabeth: we have swalwell, who was just kicked off house intelligence for his alleged relationship with an alleged chinese spy, fbi warned congress about that, then. you have democrats, reportedly pressures meta, parent of facebook demanding answers to why they reinstated former president trump to facebook and g instagram. what was your take on this story. >> we have seen through the twitter papers, the close relationship between fbi and some democrats, and social media. what happened when facebook banned trump after the january 6 capital riot, they did it for two years.

it was coming up, decision for review in january of 2023, here we are. facebook said it reviewed and views the threat, whatever it is that trump poses as diminished and it will have special safeguards about restoring trump. it seems to be a careful decision in line with what facebook has always said. i think one thing we have seen with democrats and social media companies, when they have been angry at social media for for example in trump-russia matter, they feel that social media companies should be on their side. often times they are. but not any this case. elizabeth: byron york, terrific. thank you so much. >> thank you. elizabeth: this shocking story. 6 inning, damning photos of john kerry, al gore, nance nancy pelosi, chuck

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testimony: >> republicans are eager to dig into justice department among terring of parents at -- monitoring of parenting at school board meetings. chip slaven wrote to president biden on september 29, 2021 asking for federal festinvestigation and s sasa. >> 25 parents get reported on that snitch line, they get investigated. fbi shows up at their door, guess how many have been charged? zero. reporter: signal its willing to cooperate, counsel to president wrote last week: >> adding:

reporter: no response from national school board association to my request for comment. >> mike, great reporting. joining us now. parents defending education president and founder nicole neely, your reaction to that report. we were reporting on this too, we had you as a guest, the implication was that school board parents were so upset they threatened to kill school board members, what do you make of that side of the story? >> it was interesting, we filed the public records request that showed there was collusion between biden administration and national school boards so yais sosiaassociation prior to the letter release.

there is a lot of egg in the face, they retracted their letter, department of justice has not. not. >> is there proof that parents threaten to kill school board members? >> we have yet to see any. there is no place for violence in this. but many were taken out of context. one thing we found from some school board members, happened in state, they said we wish you had contacted us and asked us for more information they they didn't or like that letter was sent. elizabeth: let's look at what happened this weekend. >> a school board meeting tonight, thinking about talking at school board meeting, he said maybe i won't go, i know mrs. smith had a visit from fbi last week, chilling impact on first amendment free speech is what we care about. this committee is about

protecting the constitution in particular the first amendment. elizabeth: that is the story. parents look at this. parents in marion, iowa. they are upset, outraged their school district, a school board member put on facebook this post. talking about diminishing role of parents in their charge's education saying: >> really? >> it is interesting we know a loot about this district, they have a federal lawsuit against the school district, i love she used phrase what society needs them to know, this district passed one of the most expansive gender policies in country over protest of hundreds of members of community, this school board thought they

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♪ liz: this story of growing concern. we get you updated, nearly a dozen humpback whale found dead in new york and new jersey in just a month? local officials are pointing to offshore wind farms. we have investigation underway. local officials call for suspension of offshore wind projects. no conclusive proof of that yet. bring on to the show, author of groundbreaking new book, called cobalt red. we welcome you to the show. thanks so much for joining us. this is your first interview on fox business. you have exclusive and shocking photos that john kerry, al gore, big tech, they don't want people to see them. can you explain what is going on in these photos?

>> yeah. i've spent months on the ground doing research in cobalt mining in the democratic republic of the congo. it's a helloscape as you see from the photos. hellscape. old colonial servitude. poorest people scrounging for a dollar or two to gather cobalt to feed it up in the supply chain. cobalt is used in manufacture of almost every lithium-ion chargeable batter in the word smartphone, are mined in these conditions. liz: they make two dollars a day. these are toxic inhumane conditions, right. >> absolutely. cobalt is toxic to touch. toxic to breathe. thousands of people hammering in pits. people inhaling toxic cobalt dust all day. they suffer injuries, shattered legs. even are buried a live in tunnel

collapses. like the moral clock has been dialed back to colonial times, all in the scramble to get cobalt out of the ground in the congo, up to our chain in our sell phones and cars. liz: this is heartbreaking stuff. they don't want mining for electric car batteries here but done in the congo where child labor abuses occur with shocking frequency. that is what human watchdogs are saying. your new photos give details to the horror of the story. has anybody in government contacted you about this? >> my phone lines are open. if anyone, either side of the aisle stakeholder up the chain, tech company, ev company, want to solve the human rights and environmental violence taking place in the congo for cobalt mining i am here. i will take them there. it is a hypocrisy we're building our green future, green for us but utterly violent and degrading for the people of the

congo. liz: they will blame china on this. they will say this is china's fault. >> they dominate mining in the congo, no question about it. they don't put the same people july on human life and dignity, on environmental sustainability as we do. and, but everyone knows that. we're still buying cobalt from them. they're is scramble to keep pushing out phones, pushing out cars, advancing this agenda to, but all the cobalt is from the copping go. dagen: children, men and women getting killed over it. liz: thank you for your book. their for joining us. thank you so much for watching. i'm liz macdonald. you've been watching "evening edit" on fox business. that does it for us. hope you have a good evening. join us again tomorrow night. ♪. ♪. da