sfx: bubblewrap bubble popped sound. larry: awful, awful, awful, awful, it's just beyond belief, three students shot in nashville, three teachers shot. may god watch over them. and liz macdonald is up next. elizabeth: agree with you, larry, thank you so much. a terrible story. they're still trying to the find motive. it's good to see you. okay, the president, the president, this news coming in, or he's about to kick off his invest in the u.s. tour, but he's also about to veto a new house energy bill that would get more u.s. oil and gas and u.s. energy. plus, he wants to do even more executive orders and climate mandates on your cars and

trucks. now, more americans and democrats polls show they're unhappy with the president, even democrats saying he's got to go. and an another evening edit" exclusive, the new move to get rid of the president's inflationary student loan bailout. with us tonight the, senator kaskey, senator ted budd, congresswoman claudia entheny, energy pro neil chat hard gee, the the washington examiner's byron york. we've got action coming in on on the grand jury probe into the possible arrest of former president trump. and we have a potential voter backlash. democrats reject the parents' bill of rights for stools -- schools, but more and more sates are enacting their own. plus, the president is about to lose one of his most potent political weapons, and the alarming thing transportation secretary buttigieg said about the growing number of near crashes at u.s. airports. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right

now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. we begin with the dow, the s&p ending up on fears that maybe letting up, fears a may be letting up over the bank crisis. first citizens will buy silicon valley bank after that collapse there. it's still up mt. air what happens to first republic. now this poll coming in, six out of ten economists say they expect the u.s. will be in a deeper recession or a down turn this year. let's start with news on the new york grand jury probe into former president trump after that grand jury unexpectedly canceled multiple meetings last week. let's get right to it. fox news' bryan llenas is live right now at the scene outside the courthouse in lower manhattan with more. bryan. >> reporter: liz, good evening. the grand jury is done for the day which means we will not get a vote on a possible indictment of the former president until at

least wednesday. the grand jury did meet, however, with one witness, david pecker. this is the his second time testifying in front of this jury. he, as chief executive of american media, was the one who alerted michael cohen, the former personal attorney of the president, that adult film actress stormy daniels was shopping around her story of an alleged affair with trump. cohen then paid daniels $130,000 of hush money. trump denies the affair. now, over the weekend president trump, former president trump had his first presidential campaign rally in waco, texas, where he railed against manhattan the district attorney alvin bragg's investigation into this hush money payment as the, quote, weaponization of the justice system. here's the former president in an exclusive interview airing tonight on "hannity." >> does this help you or hurt you in terms of your chances to win in 2024 the? >> well, if you listen to the fake news media, it helps. because they're all saying it's

a scam. even people that a don't like me are saying this is the a terrible thing to do for our country. i don't know whether it helps or hurts. i can tell you in my opinion it's a new way of cheating on elections. it's called election interference. >> reporter: republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan sent another letter to d.a. bragg saturday reiterating his request for bragg to testify about the possible indictment and to hand over documents and rut transcripts. things are getting so tense between those who the, liz, that according to a source familiar, a staffer from the house judiciary committee called on wednesday to bragg's office, someone picked up, a staff ther, and said, quote: your committee has no jurisdiction over us, stop calling us with this b.s., that's a quote, and then hung up. liz? elizabeth: thank you so much, bryan llenas. it's good to have your journalism, terrific stuff. let's welcome back to the show hans von spakovsky, senior legal fellow with heritage foundation, and sam cue wisconsin, former --

sam dewey, former assistant the cricket the attorney the. hans, what do you make of that development9 in this case? >> well, look, there's all kinds of confusion over the whole thing. michael cohen, did he just do this on his own? did he do it without the permission or knowledge of donald trump? and i'm assuming they wanted this guy in because he called cohen first to tell hipping that this -- him that this story was being shopped around to see if he has any insight on those details, although none of that really matters because there was to campaign finance violation of federal law. elizabeth: yeah, so it's -- how is this a payment ratcheted up to a campaign expense, sam? i mean, we've got house republicans doubling down, trump is saying, or you know, he paid out of his own pocket for it. but the republicans are doubling down, they're commanding al -- demanding alvin bragg testify and turn over documents by this friday. trump says what alvin bragg is

doing is election interference. bragg is saying what house are republicans are demanding is interference. where do you come down the on all of this? >> well, i think everybody needs to take a step back and look at the actual issues. and if you look at the case from d.a. bragg, it seems to be extraordinarily weak. it's on a theory the federal government declined to prosecute, he's got all sorts of factual holes, and this is an individual who has downgraded most felonies to misdemeanors. perhaps his time is better spent elsewhere. and this is a big thing, you know? you don't indict a former president of an opposing party for spitting on the sidewalk, to use the old saying. as to congressman jordan and that dispute, i do think d.a. bragg has to listen. there is authority to look at how is he spending federal funds. and i think there is authority to the look at do you preempt

certain uses of federal campaign finance law, and there also is conflicts with statutes regarding secret service protection and the like. so i think chairman jordan has a jurisdictional hook, and i i think bragg is going of to provide more information than he's providing now. elizabeth: yeah, so, hans, what sam just said, d.a. bragg, he wants to prove a federal felony out of a misdemeanor. that the justice department itself, the do to j said we're not going to prosecute this. it's usually settled with fines and penalties. let's get your reaction to dan abrams, jon stewart and former new york governor andrew cuomo here. listen to this. >> it's the risky for a number of reasons. the new theory is in getting it from the misdemeanor to the felony. they're the kind of jerry rigging it to some degree. >> this isn't just a misdemeanor case that they're trying to get into a felony, it's also a 7-year-old case. st the also a case -- it's also a case that two other sets of

prosecutors, the previous department a. and the federal prosecutors, decide decided not to move forward with. >> the reason people who say it's selective prosecution, that this would not -- >> everything is selective prosecution. the reason why donald trump became popular in the first place and the reason why these pop list movements is that the citizenry have become fed up with the lack of accountability for those in power. >> i think it's all politics, and i think that's what the people of this country are saying. and it just feeds that anger and that cynicism and the partisanship. and i think it feeds the cynicism, and that's the cancer in our body politic right now. elizabeth: you know, hans, a poll came out, roughly 60 percent view this as politically motivated but, jonathan turley points out d.a. is playing to a jury pool in new york city. that's of a different color, right? >> well, it is the, and that's a problem.

hook, this is an extremely weak case, azzam said. particularly when we, you had two federal agencies responsible for this saying there's no case here. but this d.a., i think, is counting on the fact that the he can hopefully get a biased manhattan jury that isn't going to wail the care what the facts and the law are. elizabeth: sam, this story coming in too, multiple reports that the theory is that former president trump wants to run again to gain the legal protections of the presidency, that it could give him a multiyear shield to deflect the attention of prosecutors on other cases. and you, u.n., at this trump rally concern you know, he opened up with images of january 6th on video screens. brian kilmeade, others are calling that out saying he should be running away from that. but when you look at the idea that, you know, why is the president running again, some say, well, it's to shield himself from prosecutions with the office of the presidency. what do you make of that angle?

>> that doesn't make any sense to me at all because, you know, that's well down the road, and it's only temporary. and these are pretty baseless charges. so i just don't, don't see any connection to that the at all. this is the, you know, not the case of someone who's committed a heinous crime and is running for shelter. it's pretty farcical. elizabeth: got it. okay, sam dewey, hans, thank you so much, hans von spakovsky, it's good to see you both. >> thank you. elizabeth: we've got this "evening edit" exclusive, back with us now, senator bill cassidy. senator, thank you so much for joining us. so we're hearing you are set to speak from the senate floor in less than an hour about your push along with senators joni ernst and john cornyn to get rid of biden's $400 billion student loan bailout. can you give us an update on what's going on here? >> yeah. the president said that he's

canceling student loans. he's not canceling those student loans. he is going to transfer the obligation to pay them back to those who already paid their student loans back or who never took the loan out in the first place. that's $400 billion being transferred from people who willingly took them on, in some cases making as a family making $250,000 a year, to someone who never went to college, never wanted a loan or if they did, they sacrificed to pay it back. it's wrong,stst the unfair -- it's unfair, it's just not do way things should be cone. we're going to put this congressional review, cra, in order to overturn this. elizabeth: so what grounds of the cra gives you and the senators the grounds another this? >> well, one, congress can, in our review act, congressional review act, can go the an executive the order and administrative rule, and we can overurn the it. now, we need a couple democrats. i'm hoping democrats will join. by the way, if you're a working

class guy, you had to borrow money to buy your truck to go to work, you're a gal who's trying to make ends meet, never took a loan, never went to college trying to make it work and now this is being transferred to you? it is unfair. it shouldn't matter what your party is. period. it should matter that you want to be fair, that you're going to ask people who took on a loan to pay it back. and, by the way, biden doesn't fix the reason that people got stuck with bad departments to begin with. -- debts to begin with. he's just transferring their debt away. it's wrong policy and unfair policy. elizabeth yeah, so what you just said is, why are president biden, senators like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders doing nothing to stop what happens with college tuition going? that's square one of this problem. why aren't they going after college tuition gouging, you know, tearing into middle class family and working class families' budget? people can't afford the college tuition with these fat cat

academics and what they're charging american families. >> yeah. well, met me give of a tip of the hat to senator warren. senator warren and i disagree on almost everything, but one thing we agree on is what's called the college transparency act, that if somebody's about to borrow a lot of money, she's 18 years old and wants to go to college, she could go online see at this college in this curriculum what is my likelihood of graduating, how much am i going to have to borrow, and if i graduate, how much am i going to earn a after i graduate? so if somebody spends -- 50,000 a year for four years to get a cree with which they couldn't get a job, they should know that. now, that shows that this is not a liberal or conservative issue, it is a fairness to the individual issue. and senator warren as well as others on democrats and republicans are supporting this bill. the biden administration could have included it, they're not including it, they're not pushing it, they're willing to let the problem stay.

they just want to transfer the debt to somebody else. elizabeth: you know, we have a new sienna college poll found that more than half of democrats in new york state do not want biden to run again. 51% of democrats in new york state say he's got to go. and we're talking african-americans, hispanic voters, minority voters. they say he's got to go. he's got a lot of taxes in his new budget, senator, that he wants to pay for this big government spend. let's watch -- we'd like your reaction to this exchange between senator john kennedy and treasury sec secretary yellen. watch this. >> isn't it a fact that the president's budget proposes $4.7 trillion in new taxes? >> it does, it does propose significant additional taxes, yes. >> $4.7 trillion? >> something like that, yes. elizabeth: senator, $4.7

trillion in new taxes? >> yeah. $4.7 trillion. by the way, i don't know what his priorities are, i'm concerned about social security going insolvent in about nine years. that $4.7 trillion, not a dime is going to fix social security. so for the things that matter to people, inflation he's awful on, fixing social security so people don't get an automatic 24% cut when it goes broke, that's important. i could go down the list. he's failing on all of those, which is why folks in his party are asking that he not run again, and folks in our party should be putting the best candidate up there that can beat joe biden. elizabeth: do you have democrat senators who say yes to your, the new push to to get rid of biden's inflationary student loan bailout that's unfair to plumbers, unfair to electricians, it's unfair to the working class and trades people who did not go to college. st the unfair to americans who have paid off their debt. do you have democrat senators

joining you guys? >> we have two or three who might. i cannot promise that they will. but we have two or three who might. and we're hoping that they will. fairness should not be a democrat or republican issue. fairness should be an all of us issue. so i'll ask any democratic senator to consider it fairly. is this, is this good for the person in your state who never went about to college but is now having to pay the bills for those who took the loans to go to college? and, by the way, because they went to college, they are going to earn more. that's unfair. elizabeth: senator kaskey, we'll stay on this story, for sure. it's good to have you on, sir. thanks for bringing us that exclusive. it's good to see you. >> thank you. elizabeth: get ready, america, and hold on to your wallets, climate czar john kerry says the president will do more executive orders and mandates for climate change on things like your automobiles and trucks. is this another unconstitutional end run around congress?

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elizabeth: joining us now from house ways and means, congresswoman claude ya entheny. it's the good to see you. okay, the democrat-led senate is about to defeat and kick out the parents' bill of rights. shouldn't schools be about serving their students and parents and communities, not their own ideology? shouldn't parents be able to see what their kids are being taught in schools? >> absolutely. this is what the whole purpose of the parents' bill of rights is. the is about getting parents the empowerment and also taxpayers. remember who pays the bills in these local school districts, it's the taxpayers particularly in new york where we pay among the highest that taxes in the country and among the highest per- pew pupil taxes for our school districts. the taxpayers have a right to know what's being taught in our school districts, and a lot of this in new york is state

education department. we're trying to give some freedom and some rights and empower ifment to parents so that they know what's happening in the school district. that's all this is. it's not some dramatic, you know, departure from what we already expect parents should have. elizabeth: so why are the teachers union, politicians, you know, why are they trying to keep parents in the dark when it comes to the their kids' education? if it was so wonderful, why aren't democrats campaigning on what they are doing? why aren't they broadcasting from the rooftops their agenda? we've got now 50 u.s. states, these statements are now moving, 15, 15 states, they're already moving to continue their own a parents' bill of rights in their statements. a cousin other states are -- dozen other states are considering doing the same thing, and a dozen more states have passed transparency reforms that show parents what's going on with public schools' instructional materials. so sates are moving on this. >> well, except for new york sate which is a great incubator for what not to do.

the state education is all-powerful and probably the most important, or i should say the most powerful entity in all of new york, are the teachers unions. and they have some of the highest pay, and as i said, some of the highest costs per pupil and some of the worst test scores in the mission for students whether it's the upstate new york in buffalo, rochester. and not just new york city. i mean, people need to understand. they're about money and getting money. it's always about the kids, but it's really about keeping the same rules in place, keeping the power of the teachers unions over the students and parents. and that's really what it's all about. elizabeth: and it's so terrible because public schools are for the poor. minorities get hurt by. lower class workers, income workers get hurt by this, blue collar workers get hurt by this. the parents deserve better. now, we would like your reaction to this fight over the parents' bill of rights. your colleague and cosponsor of the bill, the parents' bill of

rights, wyoming representative harriet hageman, she asks ney dane -- nadine johnson from penn, she asks a pretty simple question. johnson refuses to answer it. watch this. >> do you believes the censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to the penthouse magazine? >> i don't know of any instances in which a -- >> that isn't my question. my question is do you believe that it is censorship to prohibit teachers from exposing first graders to penthouse magazine? >> i believe that it is important that we have parents, teachers and educators concern. >> you are not going to answer my question then, is a that right? >> i believe it is important to have parents, teachers and educators involved in understanding what is being -- >> do you believe that it is appropriate to present penthouse to first graders? >> of course not. >> thank you. elizabeth: okay. what took nadine johnson so long, what took her so long to

answer? you know what? she's not allowed to be involved in what's going on with school children. she's not allowed to weigh in anymore. why call her in at all to testify if she's going to be so obtuse and stubborn about penthouse magazine for 6-year-oldsesome. >> yeah. look, this is, again, all about cult entertainment being put into our school districts -- adult entertainment. our students need to learn about writing, the basics, critical thinking, things that have been taken out of our schools. this is exactly why we need a parents' bill of rights. elizabeth: yeah, enough already. enough, enough. stop. congresswoman, you'll be discussing the crisis at the northern border. you've got a hearing coming up tomorrow? >> yeah. tomorrow there's a hearing in the homeland security committee. i'm not on that committee, but i do have the northern border, and i spent an entire day with our customs and border control to hear concern patrol to hear what's going on. an 850% increase in crossing, mostly fentanyl, a lot of human trafficking. and it has to do with the fact

that we have open visa requirements meaning that the cartels can create a fake in mexico, give illegal immigrants a fake id, they can cross into canada. it looks so real, no visa requirement. they take an uber, the uber takes them to the border, and the cartels get them into new york where they can go anywhere in the country. that's the problem. i hope they talk about that tomorrow. elizabeth: we'll stay on the story. thanks for bringing that to us. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. elizabeth: an important note for our beloved viewers, fox corporation is donating a million dollars to the american red cross to help provide aid and resources including things like water, medical supplies, housing support and more to those hurt by the recent tornadoes and storms in mississippi and other southern states. now, if you would like to donate, you can log on to red cross.org/fox forward. every dollar will go a long way to helping those families in need. now, our our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families.

they're on our minds right now as we speak. now this story coming out, the white house, the president is about to lose one of his most potent political weapons. and climate czar john kerry, he now says president biden, he's going to do even more executive orders and climate mandates for your cars and trucks. this is another unconstitutional end run around congress. that's coming up on "the evening edit." ♪ ♪ don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. ♪ and please, when i go out with you, don't put me on kiss the play ♪ i count on personalized financial advice from my ameriprise advisor. she knows my goals and can help me reach them with confidence. the markets may fluctuate but you're still on track. more than 9 out of 10 clients are likely to recommend us. ameriprise financial. new projects means new project managers. you need to hire.

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elizabeth: look who's back with us, neil chat around gee. neil, it's great to have you back on, sir. you're the perfect guest and expert on this one. can you square this, help us out

here? the president, he's about to go on an invest in america tour nationwide, but he's also going to veto the republicans' new bill to get more u.s. energy, more u.s. oil and gas into the economy. after he's going -- at the same time the he's doing this tour? and then he's going to do more executive orders for climate change mandates on trucks and cars but little to nothing about china? with triple the u.s. emissions? what is going on here? >>st the all politics. it's all messaging. it's all posturing. if he was actually serious about lowering costs for american consumers, if he was actually serious about durable, legally sustainable, long-term energy policy, he would work with republicans if congress -- in congress on significant, meaningful, bipartisan energy legislation. instead he's just trying to placate his left wing

environmentalist base and is missing an opportunity to actually do something meaningful. elizabeth: well, it's slamming u.s. consumers, right, his policies. now a majority of democrats in the sienna college poll, they don't want the president to run again. i mean, you're talking about national security, u.s. energy security, but then you have the president and justin trudeau telling everyone else to to stop driving, don't drive gasoline cars. hay use dozens of gas cars and suvs and military-style armored personnel for a 5-minute trip to speak to canada's parliament about climate, the world's climate emergency. >> yeah. this is what drives people crazy. it's their own government telling them, hey, what's good for me is not good for thee. and i think if the administration if were willing to have a honest conversation with the american people about what we need to do about the energy transition, about energy security, about reliability in a

smart, affordable, efficient, market-based way, i think they'd find a receptive audience. the problem is a very small percentage of radical folks on the left-wing fringe are dick ate thing policy -- dictatesing policy -- dictating policy. and heir the alienating a huge swath of the public. elizabeth: climate czar john kerry, he's about to ply on an airplane to london and paris to talk climate change. why can't he skype or zoom? let's watch him defend flying around the world to talk about climate change. watch this. >> actually the, i've talked to them about it. they offset. they are working harder than most people i know to be able to try to affect this transition. >> right. >> we're doing a lot more than just the i.r.a.. the i.r.a. is a package that in and of itself could get to 40%.

but in addition to that, the president is issuing executive orders. there'll be changes on automobile, on light truck, heavy truck, heavy duty, a number of initiatives that are being taken by states. we have to work with china, we have to work with india, we even have to find a way ultimately to resolve the war in ukraine and work with russia because russia's a huge emitter. any one of these countries has an ability if it doesn't move to change its energy base to make it much harder for the rest of the world if not impossible to reach the goals we've set. elizabeth: this guy, john kerry, he was not confirmed by the u.s. senate. he sits on the national security council. he's got a multimillion dollar budget. americans can't see who's on his payroll. they've been trying to do foia requests out of john kerry's office. he's not ponying up any details of his meetings with nations like china or anything, and now he's going to crush americans with more mandates about climate change as he's flying around the

world and telling americans you've got to live with it, you've got to keeling with us oe change and our temperature top-down mandates? why can't americans find out what this guy is doing with his shad coe presidency? >> look, john kerry hasn't been in the united states senate for a long time, but that was a very senatorial answer. it rambled on and on, and i'm not entirely certain whats the that he actually said. look, i don't begrudge the guy flying around. i fly airplanes, i drive a ford f-150. i want americans to be able to drive and to be able to fly. what i don't like is when unelected bureaucrats, appointed and not the even confirmed by the senate, are trying to drive policies that will prevent people like me from driving in order f-150s and flying. it's the hypocrisy that is so maddening. have a responsible conversation about bipartisan, durable solutions. don't he canture us, please.

stop lecturing us. elizabeth elizabeth and don't coexecutive orders, don't make rules and laws by fiat with your executive pen with these top-down mandates that that do an end run around the constitutional power of congress and their power of the purse. that's what's a problem here too. what they're doing is unconstitutional. neil, thank you so much. it's good to have you on. now we're taking this on, transportation secretary pete buttigieg, he's being called out for a growing number of near crashes at u.s. airports. you're going to want to hear the alarming thing pete buttigieg said about this. also white house is going to lose one of its most potent political weapons, that's according to the washington examiner. we've got byron york coming up on "the evening edit."y yo ♪ ♪ missing teeth forever. it changes how you eat, how you feel, and how you enjoy life. it changes your smile

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call or go online. elizabeth: well, look who's here, he's a great writer, columnist and author, he's from the washington examiner, byron york.

byron -- we saw this story mt. washington examiner that president biden is about to lose one with of his most potent and powerful political weapons, the federal emergency over the pandemic i. ends may 11th. why is this so powerful for the president? the. >> well, you know, if you look at joe biden's job approval ratings going back to the day he look the office, covid has been the only good news in those job approval ratings. for two years now when his ratings for handling the economy, the border, crime or other issues has really fallen down into the basement, americans still basically approve, a small majority most of the time, of his handling of covid. and that is going to go away. and you have to remember covid has been the reason for a lot of the federal spending that the president and democrats on capitol hill have turned into law. elizabeth: so it's the $1.9 trillion american rescue plan,

it's the basis for his $400 billion student loan bailout. he's still citing the emergency for more and more spending. if so when that goes away, what happens? >> well, we're going to keep spending. here's the thing, if you look from the years 2019, which is the last pre-covid year, to 2023, that's five years, look at those years, federal spending has gone from $4.4 trillion to $6.7 trillion, more than 50% increase in just those five years. now, do you think we're beginning to go back to the old level? no. covid has created sort of a new normal in federal spending, and it is going to be the even higher than it otherwise would have been had covid never happened. elizabeth: yeah, and so they're suspending part of it. and also this, your washington examiner publication points out almost all of the pandemic restrictions ended last year.

there was a backlash against mask and vaccine mandates. that fueled the rise of florida governor ron desantis but, byron, what we have yet to get to the bottom of is the covid pandemic, how it started to begin with. let's watch senator ron johnson on how he asked dr. fauci about the catastrophic impact of creating supercharged viruses, lethal viruses in laboratories for drugs and vaccines. watch this. >> i said, dr. fauci, you're proposing these shutdowns. are you taking into account that the human devastation, the human toll, the economic conservative station that you're contemplating here? and he just, you know, just cavalierly said, oh, senator, that's somebody else's department. i don't worry about that. elizabeth: really? it's somebody else's county, i don't worry about that? byron, what do you think of all? >> well, china has been stonewalling from day one on the covid virus, and the biden administration has never really

pushed them. i mean, the world health organization has said they completely stonewalled about this, everybody has stonewalled about this. in the united states there came to be a political debate over whether covid origin was a lab leak or an animal transfer, and a lot of republicans st.ed it was a lab -- suspected it was a lab leak, and democrats said, no, it was an animal transfer. that's a crazy issue to be politicized, and the reason there's even a debate about this is because china has been so non-transparent about this. elizabeth: okay. >>ing and joe biden has not pushed them harder. elizabeth: got it. byron york, you're terrific. thanks for joining us tonight. well, my hot take is coming up. you're going to want to stick around for it. plus, senator ted budd. we have him coming up on transportation secretary the pete buttigieg, he's called out for a growing number of near crashes at u.s. airports. we've got the surprising and alarming thing buttigieg said about all that. but first, look who's here, my

bud keys dagen and sean. we really are excited for their show, "the bottom line." sean: highway, we have a great -- can hey, james comer, congressman, and chairman of the concern house oversight committee talking about the hunter biden probe, also john kerry's hypocrisy flying around the world and claiming global warming. dagen: and we also audiocassette to kevin hassett about the enormous boondoggle that is spending that joe biden and sustain are -- company are going to go across the country and try and brag about, calling it investing. [laughter] and what else? mary kissel and mollie hemingway. sean: all coming up in about 14 minutes. stick around. ♪ ♪ i'm just sitting out here watching airplanes ♪ ♪ if you walmart, you know ♪ that with everyday low prices you can spend a little less, to get a little more,

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elizabeth: well, look who's here from senate commerce, science and transportation, he is senator ted budd. he's an accomplished commercial air pilot, is that correct, senator? >> i am a commercial, multi-engine, instrument rated, that's correct. thanks for having me. elizabeth: so impressive, senator. so president biden's nominee to run the faa, phil washington, withdrew his nomination odd. what's your reaction to that? can't both democrats and

republicans say he's not ready for the job who? well, i really don't put this on phil washington. he should have never been appointed for the job. i put this on joe biden who was going more for diversity rather than public safety when it comes to the air traffic. and it's very unfortunate that somebody who has served our country like phil washington with us pup put up for a role for which he punt fit. elizabeth: he was also the ceo of denver international airport for less than two years. buttigieg is saying these are undeserved attacks -- >> well, it was bipartisan, the attacks were from both parties that had concerns, and i wouldn't even call them attacks. denver airport was mostly vending and restaurants and the commerce that wail the went on inside the airport and had nothing to do with the air safety. so again, it was a mismatch. he understands more about buses, whether it was in denver, a prior job, or out in los angeles. but again, somebody who had served in the u.s. military the, appreciate his service there, but from the biden administration it was a complete mismatch, wasted a loot of time

to. if you look at someone like our acting director, billy nolan, the administrator of the faa, that's somebody who's flown for three airlines as a commercial pilot, tremendous experience, really knows his stuff. elizabeth: yeah, it's unfair for mom me washington, for the president to have done that to him, you know? i mean, democrat senator jon tester, democrats had misgivings about this. we watched how nominee could not answer any of your seven very important questions about what it needs to be done to run if faa and our nation's airlines and airports. watch this. >> how concerned are you? >> i'm very concerned. this year we're on track to have more than 20 and even 1 is 1 that i would not like to see happen. >> what air space requires an adsb transresponder? >> not sure i can answer that question right now. >> what are the six i'm types of special use air space that appear on faa charts? >> sorry, senator, i cannot answer that question. >> what are the operational

limitations of a pilot flying under a basic med? >> senator, i'm not a pilot, so again, senator, i'm not a pilot. >> three types -- mr. washington, the three types? >> no. >> so can you tell me what the minimum separation distance is for landing and debarting concern departs airliners? >> i don't want to get on that, senator. >> do you know the difference there? >> no, i cannot. elizabeth: we just showed a clip of pete buttigieg forecasting and estimating that there will be 20 the, 20 the close calls of airplane crashes for this year. senator, there have been 7 confirmed close calls, we're talking new york, texas, hawaii, florida, california, massachusetts and d.c. and now buttigieg is saying we can expect 20? near collisions in the skies and at the nation's airports between airplanes? >> the goal should always be zero when it comes to dangerous incidents or near misses, and you always want to improve air

passenger safety. this is absolutely ridiculous, that he would predict that many. you always want to be in a mode of improvement, understanding what's happened with these prior 7. it just goes, you go back to some of the most dangerous incidents that we had. and in the phil washington hearing i asked this question, what happened in austin? what what happened a few weeks ago many in boston that should never have happened? we're lucky there was no loss of life are, there was no accident, but it was too close for confident. it was dangerous for passengers. we really need somebody at the top of the helm in the f if aa or whenst the transportation in general that really understands safety which is our primary concern. tease folks are highly politicized. pete buttigieg is worried about his next job, not the one that he has right now. we need somebody that's not asleep at the switch. elizabeth: senator bud, we so appreciate and admire you. you're a hard working senator. we hope to have you on again soonful it's good to see you. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: okay, our hot take, "the evening edit" hot take is

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♪. liz: okay, here's our hot take for this evening. how in the world is trans pourtation secretary pete buttigieg just cavalierly

estimating for this year alone 20 near crashes airplane collisions in the nation's skies and at our airports, just for this year alone. that is his forecast. who is running our transportation system? remember, it is president biden being blamed. he is being criticized for nominating buttigieg. buttigieg was a mayor. phil washington was ceo of denver international airport. he with drew his nomination for the top faa official spot. he is just latest biden nominee to withdraw after facing bipartisan backlash. we're not begrudging nominee washington. again this is about the president. why is the president nominating political donors and backers and political cronies who are not qualified for these very important jobs about your safety? how about instead of going on tv and tweeting, doing things like going to the clinton global initiative buttigieg figures out what the problem is and stop it now so no one dies.

how about that angle, pete buttigieg? he keeps blaming the trump white house. it is difficultcontinue to fingerpoint when you're the guy in charge. tomorrow we have house oversight james comer, congressman does at this johnson, tom dupree. we have a hot show for you tomorrow. remember email us at emacviewers@fox.com. we may feature you on the next show. i'm liz macdonald thanks for watching the evening the e edit on fox business. time for my buddies at the "the bottom line" dagen and sean. i can't get over pete buttigieg saying there will be 20, estimated 20 near collisions in the sky at or near airports because of airplanes possibly crashing, dagen and sean. sean: impeach pete buttigieg. get rid of him. get someone who can do it. thanks, emac. ♪. dagen: good evening i'm dagen mcdowell. sean: i'm sean duffy.