>> sean: thanks for joining me for this special edition of kudlow. catch me tonight on the bottom line with my co-host with dagen mcdowell and now jackie deangelis. she's in for e-mac. jackie: thank you so much, and i will be there in one hour.

>> sean: have a great show. jackie: tonight folks china declaring it's ready to fight as former state department officials warn chinese tech companies are exploiting the biden administration's green energy push. we have kevin o'leary on an expanded irs. he will be in studio with us plus the congressman on the committee that's subpoenaing at least four major banks demanding biden family financial documents. that's right. we also have congresswoman claudia tenney on a texas bill giving $8,000 per child to opt out of public school, and records showing that george soros's son visited the white house 14 times since 2021. i'm jackie deangelis in for elizabeth macdonald. the evening edit starts right now.

welcome, everybody. let's start with china, on day three of conducting military drills around taiwan, with the largest show of force that we have seen yet. 70 fighter jets and nearly a dozen warships were sent towards taiwan today. taiwan now warning that a misstep could cause a " uncontrollable war." fox news greg palcot is live in london. reporter: hi, jackie. it looks like we're finished with this round of chinese saber rattling but it was very serious and maybe alarming for the future. chinese war planes and warships were launched around taiwan's coast. they call it cot bam readiness patrols and really meant to simulate an attack and ceiling off of the self-governed island which china claims is its own. included in the exercises today for the first time, jackie, we saw a new chinese aircraft carrier with fighter planes practicing attack missions, as well as nuclear capable

bombers in the skies. there were multiple crossings by chinese planes and ships in the strait between china and taiwan's plus range of defensive responses from the island. all of this pretty much triggered by taiwan president's meeting with the republican house speaker kevin mccarthy in california last week, and the fireworks literally figuratively started. war games also time to start after french president macron left china following a much touted three-day visit there. as he left an exit interview, jackie, macron said europe should not get involved in a u.s.-china spat over taiwan and finally these chinese drills came after another congressional delegation left the island headed up by representative michael mccaul. the capitol hill voices are speaking pretty hawkishly about taiwan these days. mccaul and others even

suggesting that well, there should be u.s. troops on the ground there, at least in a training capacity. the drums of war sounding a bit louder these days, back to you. jackie: that's easier for them to say. joining me now is former state department official christian wh itton. always great to see you thank you for joining us tonight. let's dig right into this . >> good to be here. jackie: we've got a seemingly tense situation here, and this is from the reaction, china 's reaction to the taiwanese president visiting california last week. now china had a similar reaction when former house speaker nancy pelosi went to taiwan in august. having said that, it's very tense. it seems like china is definitely flexing its muscles, but it doesn't want to be seen as an aggressor , almost seems like it's waiting for one thing to happen, one thing to say, that it was provoked. what are your thoughts? >> well, it keeps getting more and more aggressive, actually.

i mean, there was an outbreak by china's military after speaker, former speaker pelosi visited the island but think about this. this isn't self-governing island we can have a one-china policy and say that taiwan is a part of china but everyone knows that that is a lie. knows that taiwan is a separate country. a very different place from china and this is the place that china repeatedly threatens to invade and is now having this full dress rehearsal of a blockade plus attack. so, it's just bizarre that china runs around and says it's going to broker a peace deal between ukraine and russia, is engaged in diplomacy between iran and saudi arabia and is sort of pretending or trying to pretend to be a global player and then is in fact just threatening a democratic peaceful neighbor that just wants to be left alone jackie: yeah and the chinese have essentially said they are ready to fight. they are ready to go, christian. senator lindsey graham here in the united states saying that he is open to sending u.s. troops

to taiwan. listen. >> strategic ambiguity is not working. china, after afghanistan, believes that the store is open, that you can go in and take whatever you want on biden's watch. i'd be very much open to using u.s. forces to defend taiwan, because it's in our national security interest to do so. jackie: what do you think of that, christian? >> i think that it's extremely unlikely you could have a war against taiwan that wouldn't involve u.s. forces and japanese forces and australian forces. you know, graham is a little off -key as was representative mccaul, the foreign affairs committee chairman, who is out there in saying that u.s. soldiers should be involved i think that sets the wrong message. taiwan isn't asking for a u.s. presence or u.s. basis to defend taiwan. they are askinr and a lot of otr people, the iraqis, for example, whing, taiwan pays for all of its military goods that it buys from us. in fact there's a $19 billion

backlog of arms that have been approved, which they are ready to buy, which we have gone to ukraine or which are held up otherwise with red tape, so yes, i think the united states would have to be involved if we have huge bases in okinawa, japan which is only a couple hundred miles from taiwan, guam is right there and there are thousands of americans who live in taiwan but stressing first that we should have troops on the ground to use that often used term i think just misses the point. jackie: i want to switch gears for a moment and get to this story because the doj and the pentagon are investigating these highly classified document s leaked online regarding russia's war on ukraine and the extent of the u.s.' knowledge with respect to our allies. christian? your thoughts on the leak, the fact that these documents were out there online. we didn't know they were out there online for some time and also, the fact that they might have been altered, so it's difficult to really understand exactly what happened here, but still, presents a national

security threat when you know that classified information is literally being leaked on the internet. >> yeah, no, it's pretty bad. the government takes many steps to protect classified information. there's a lot of over-classified information. a lot of information that's just essentially chatter and analysis but this looks like an actual military assessment of ukraine's ability to wage war. how russia and ukraine are doing the war, and if it's true, which is a big if, and it has been altered, it looks like, it paint s a picture of ukrainian military that's much closer to collapse than the public is being led to believe. the public is being told that ukraine is preparing for a spring time offensive against russia and this looks like instead they are about to run out of ammunition and in particular air defense for its s -3 soviet air defense system, and if that happens, russia could gain air superiority and really change factors on the ground in ukraine quickly this is the one foreign policy success that joe biden

and his administration are holding out and if it's just a paper tiger, if it's not true, if it's going to be cast right alongside the failure in afghanistan, certainly not good for the white house. jackie: yeah, absolutely not. senator tom cotton sounded off on this earlier. let's listen. >> we need to get to the bottom of who had access to these documents, how they could have leaked, what potential compromises they could be, but we also, again, need to have confidence that if we provide the ukrainians the weapons that they have been urging us over the last year, that they can defend their own territory. jackie: christian, you know, it sort of is a slap in the face to the united states to have these documents leaked when we are spending so much to fund the ukrainian end of this war, at a difficult time here economically for most americans across the country, to only hear this news that our intelligence feels that the ukrainians are not strong enough. now, senator cotton is saying that we should continue to believe that the ukrainians will

be strong enough. that if we continue to fund them that they can defeat russia, but that's difficult for some to take in. >> right, right, i disagree with that. i think that if you fight a war of attrition against russia, there are a couple of countries that might be able to do that. the united states, china, india. ukraine though, with its much smaller population, going to have difficult doing that and russia has a long history of starting wars at a very sloppy manner and still about half the time prevailing in the end. they do better when they are attacked as opposed to this instance where they are the aggressor , but nonetheless , you know, a situation where europe really needs to be doing more. you mentioned earlier, in this report, how much macron, the french president, said that they shouldn't get involved in a fight over taiwan. well maybe they ought to be doing at least a little more in their backyard and europe. we're paying 75% of the burden of the ukraine war. that ratio ought to be slipped. that should be europe paying the lions share. jackie: it was so interesting

and paraphrasing here but macron in his comments essentially said that it wasn't in their interest you know, when it comes to the allies, right? when it comes to the united states, nobody cares about what's in our interest. they are always saying go, go, go, and help, and do what you can, but now the french are saying well it's not in our interest. i find that ironic. christian whiton, great to see you, thank you. >> thank you. jackie: all right, the biden administration reportedly set to propose some new rules, including limits on tail pipe emissions to force electric vehicles to total 67% of all new passenger vehicles sold by 2032. grady trimble is live at the white house with that story for us. hi, grady. reporter: hi, jackie. the stated goal from president biden is to have half of all vehicles sold by 2030 to be electric. this could surpass that goal. as you mentioned, two-thirds of even more than that of all new vehicles sold by 2032 could be

electric if these rules go into place like we're expecting them to on wednesday. all of this according to the "wall street journal." the journal reports the new standards will first apply to model year 2027 vehicles and gradually increase through model year 2032 vehicles. the white house hasn't confirmed exactly what the rules are, because they're not final yet. >> i'm semitism not going to get ahead of an ongoing policy process. want to be careful here, but look, when it comes to climate crisis, it requires ambitious actions, and the president has been delivering on those ambitious actions. reporter: the biden administration though has a long way to go to hit its ev goals. right now fewer than 6% of new cars sold are electric. the president's critics point out the move to ev's could be doing more to help china where the vast majority of car batteries are processed than the environment. >> most of those key components continue to be made in china, and we shouldn't just be looking

at this from a perspective of emissions but we should also be looking at it from a national security perspective. we should not be sacrificing american energy independence to a regime that is certainly hostile to american interests. reporter: so, we're expecting that announcement from the ea in detroit later this week and some of the automakers there, jackie, have warned that if they have to spend more money to meet these new emission standards for gas-powered vehicles, that leaves less money for them to invest into electric vehicles which this administration is so keen to get drivers behind the wheels of. jackie? jackie: they sure are. grady trimble, thank you so much joining me now to dig into this texas congressman pat fall on from house oversight committee. congressman always great to have you with us and i want to get your take on this because the way i'm reading this is you're going to have new emission standards. you're going to make gas-powered cars, fossil fuels powered cars more expensive. electric vehicles are already

expensive with the average price somewhere around the $65,000 mark. what that means to me is that more people in this country won't be driving if the cost of vehicles essentially goes up. it's not necessarily going to further the green agenda very quickly. >> well jackie, thanks for having me on and you're absolutely right. this is also like rule by decree using a governmental agency with unelected bureaucrats. really legislating from their desks, which in and of itself is never a good idea but you're absolutely right. 93% of cars right now on the road are gas-powered and this is an aggressive action by the biden administration. this is impossible actions. these are standards that can not be met by 2030 and we see what we saw in germany going down this road a little bit getting their head over their skiis if you will and now they are burning more coal in germany than they ever have before. that's not too green so i want to make sure we do things the right way moving forward. jackie: yeah and the second issue, as grady pointed out, is national security, right? this is a huge issue, because

what it seems like is that china will be the clear winner with this green energy push right now when it comes to electric vehicles. they're making the batteries when it comes to other forms of alternative energy as well like solar panels. they're making those panels. we're not doing it here at home. you've even got tesla doing a new factory in shanghai. i don't blame you on musk for doing it because it's cheaper, still cheaper to do business there. so this whole notion that we're going to decouple from china doesn't actually seem to be happening because this administration can't get its act together so that companies can functionally do business here on u.s. soil. >> well, jackie, and also china ' the largest pollute erin the world. our economy is larger than china and yet they are increasing their emissions in the last 20 years they have tripled their emissions where we've reduced ours by 20% our carbon footprint , and right now they are making over 70% of the batteries in china, so this green new deal is empowering china and weakening

the united states. weapon have plenty of natural gas and oil but the democrats don't want to use that. it's ridiculous. jackie: getting back to grady's report again, the white house is saying that they've got no information on the reports that china's actually exploiting the u.s.' green energy push to build these facilities and projects in the united states. i would imagine the white house would say that, since they were the ones furthering this agenda, and essentially, selling our country out so that china can profit. >> uh-huh. do they not have is, jackie? do they not have ears, do they not have trillions of brain cell s working between their ears , because of course this is empowering china. any child could see that, and it's unfortunate but joe biden did say, jackie, when he first was inaugurated that a strong china, economically, is in the united states best interest. i don't agree with that. jackie: yeah, many people don't agree with that and many people have seen this president and his foreign policy how far he's gotten us and how aggressive china has become, and are saying this is exactly what we feared would happen.

congressman pat fallon, thank you so much for joining us tonight. >> thanks jackie, god bless. jackie: we have the congressman on the committee that's subpoenaing at least four major banks demanding biden family financial documents on this show , plus, we've got kevin o'leary with us on the expanded irs.

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jackie: welcome back. as tax day quickly approaches in just more than one week, a newly -expanded irs is beginning to take shape. lydia hu has more on this for us lidia? reporter: good evening, jackie. the biden administration promises the investment will modernize the agency and produce hundreds of billions of dollars in deficit reduction. the $80 billion in funding will add 30,000 people. 20,000 of those employees will be added by the end of next year more than 7,000 will focus on enforcement. it plans to create world class customer service and increase audits, on the highest taxpayers , to levels seen 10 years ago. that's a 10-fold increase from the current rates of audit for people making over half a million dollars, and while the administration promises no increased taxes, or rates of

audits on people earning less than $400,000, is conservative economists don't buy it. >> they aren't just going after the millionaires and billionaire s. they are going after the middle class because of course that's where the money is. if you want to get more money out of people you have to go to the tens of millions of americans who are in the middle class. reporter: republican lawmakers are concerned that the boosted irs will be used to single out the administration's critics. some are recalling the irs settlement of 2017, after it targeted conservative groups with heightened security, reopening the wound, republicans now point to twitter files journalist matt taibbi and the surprise visit by irs agents to his new jersey home. jackie, back to you. jackie: lydia hu, thank you so much. joining me with reaction, o'leary ventures chairman or more commonly known as "mr. wonderful" kevin o'leary great to have you with us. thank you so much for being here in studio. >> thank you. jackie: your reaction to that

report because this is some americans biggest nightmare and actually coming to fruition, expansion of the irs. as lidia points out they might go after the top and when they're done there, they are going to come for everybody else. >> i think and this is just my bread and butter. i invest in companies that represent 70% of our economy, small business in america. the tax code was written for them, and i encourage, i talked to my ceo's about this today we had a bit of a town hall ourselves and said okay, this is a reality. we got to start preparing our taxes and our payroll records. i mean, where some of the biggest problems happen in small business, you're growing, you're scrambling trying to keep things open, trying to make payroll every wednesday night, and you fall behind in keeping your records clean. what this tells you now is you've gotta have crystal clear records. you have to invest in keeping yourself compliant, because when you do and if you get audited, the best thing is to have the data, because when you don't have it, this is going to get a

lot harder. now i don't know how fast they are going to push on these audits but this is something that we deal with now anyways and so it's just going to become more of a big factor which means we'll invest more in payroll technology, in accounting records and everything else, we have to. jackie: as i was going to say it's going to cost more and everybody has to start thinking about how to budget for that as they move forward, and also possibly for defenses and accountants and legal fees if they have to deal with that if they are audited and there's an issue. >> one note i would make and you have to realize is the irs has programs for small business to support them that have been lingering around since 2020. the employee retention credit is off the w-2 payroll. for that, the irs is not your enemy. they are your friend. you just have to learn how to go get it. if you kept employees on during 2020, and 2021, this program is still available for 23 months and every single one of my companies is applying for it if they are eligible so you don't want to make an enemy of your

irs agent when they are trying to help you right now, get your credits that you're owed up to 26,000 per-employee. jackie: we keep saying there's money out there. >> there is. jackie: people just don't know how to go after it. >> so you can learn all about this online. jackie: let's switch gears for a moment because you and i were talking on the break about the biggest issue on your radar which is essentially post- banking crisis small and medium-size businesses which are the backbone of this country and a looming credit crunch. talk to me a little bit about that. >> i want to bring it up because there's two pieces of date that are not rolled into cpi when we keep talking about the fed raising rates another 25 basis points in the main meeting here is the data we don't have. two big pieces. the rent rolls that are incorporated into cpi are really old, up to 18 months old. rent is rolling over in so many markets i'm investing in. the coastal states know. miami know, l.a., no, but everywhere else they are down 20 %. it's not yet reflected in cpi

and we talk about a 6.1% inflation. it's not taking into account the rents rolled over but secondly, and this one came to me hard like a wall, brick wall this morning. i was talking to some of my ceo 's saying okay, what's happening in your credit crunch with your banks? this is primarily regional banks they have stopped lending, so this , i want to see the reports now from the credit officers across the country. we don't have this data yet. we're going to get it in the next 10-20 days. every loan officer, senior loan officer, tell us what you're doing in reaction to the meltdown that occurred in regional banks. are you tightening the spigot and the answer is going to be yes. that is work that actually is going to help the fed, because that's going to start to choke business. i'll give you an example something called factoring. when you sell to walmart and target, like companies do that, we go to the factoring market to borrow money against the 60 or 90 day receivable and paid 7-8% i've got one paying 29% today.

jackie: wow. >> that's something we have not yet seen in the data. we've got to keep our eyes on. this is going to slow the economy. i don't know if the fed cares too much but i care. i'm an investor. i'm supporting these businesses, and there's millions of people like me that want to see these companies succeed. jackie: so friday the fed had me convinced with the jobs number, it was a little bit lower than expected. maybe he's got that soft landing figured out but when i hear this , i hear sort of here is a dark cloud ahead that we have not seen yet. >> i want to put up my hand and say please look at rent rolls. please look at loan officer data please look at it. please. jackie: okay, that's a really important point to make, and just this final point. new cnn poll that just came out talking about how americans feel about the economy, 71% would rate the economic conditions in the country poor. >> that's reflection on misguided policy. i'm not into politics. i'm into policy. there's several things here that i'm not happy about as a policy,

a historian. i study history to see where to invest in the future. we need energy independence. that's good policy. i don't care what side of the fence you're on, what's wrong with making america energy -independent? that's number one for both sides jackie: which we were. >> yeah, and now we're not. we gotta fix that and this china thing is a problem. we've gotta work something out with china. they aren't playing on a level playing field with us. it's tilted. it's bias there. we've got to actually, i don't want to go to war with these guys. i want to cut a deal that gives us access to their market the way they are trying to get access to ours. we're giant trading partnerrings let's make money together not blow each other up. jackie: kevin o here it thank you so much, i can't wait to have you on ""the big money show"" we have a town hall tomorrow, 1:00 p.m. eastern time , you will be there, charles will be there, co-host brian and taylor will be there and we'll be talking about banking and what else is on your radar. >> i'm going to really enjoy that. i love a live audience.

jackie: we'll help them setup a play book because this is a whole new world for them right now. >> certainly is the last 14 days taught me that. jackie: great to see you thank you so much. >> take care. jackie: president biden says he's planning on running in 202t just yet, also records showing that george soros's son visited the white house 14 times, 14 times, folks, since 2021. and we've got congressman russel fry on the committee that's subpoenaing at least four major banks demanding biden family financial documents, coming up, next.

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jackie: hunter biden attending the annual white house easter egg roll today, as federal investigations into the biden family are starting to heat up. house oversight subpoenaed four banks looking for financial records belonging to the biden family, and a business associate

joining us now from house oversight and house judiciary, congressman russel fry. congressman great to be with you this evening thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me on. jackie: let's dig right into it tell us what you know about the subpoenas, and do you think that the banks and the associate are going to cooperate and we're going to get a little bit more information on what exactly is transpired here? >> great question. i think right now, what we know is that we have suspicious activity reports that showed $3 million transferred from a chinese company to a well-known biden family associate, of course several members of the biden family were paid through multiple transactions and based on that, the committee has issued subpoenas to four banks and to other associates associated with the biden family obviously they are whistleblower s that are involved with the committee it sounds like and so we are getting to the bottom of some really questionable behavior. what were these payments for?

what services were rendered. i think the american people have a lot of questions about that and it's something that is achieved priority of house republicans in moving forward. jackie: there's kind of a side narrative going on here as this investigation plays out as well. you've got house oversight ranking member jamie raskin, and then chairman james comer on opposite sides of the fence here raskin is sending out memos to other democrats basically saying and revealing comer's plan to get the subpoenas, and to put them out there. part of this is a process that does have to be done with some secrecy to reveal the whole entire plan and everything that's happening and raskin is going outputting it out there, and it's actually the second time that raskin has leaked sensitive information like this with this ongoing federal investigation, so my question to you is, how is the committee supposed to do its job, do a thorough investigation when you've got democrats that keep putting in and trying to

obstruct it essentially. >> i think you're exactly right and you know, in law school they teach you a lot that if the facts aren't on your side, argue the law. if the law is not on your side you argue the facts. if neither is on your side you pound table and that seems to be what congressional democrats are doing. they are acting like private lawyers for the biden family at this point instead of doing legitimate congressional oversight. i think the american people have some questions about this. why is a chinese communist party company, energy company, giving money to an associate of the biden family that is trickl ing that money into the bank accounts of biden family members? i think those are legitimate questions the american people want to know the answers to, and certainly, chairman raskin, just a few weeks ago, said that all we were going to find were starbucks receipts and papa john 's receipts. nothing could be farther from the truth. he omitted in discovery that we had $3 million transfer. jackie: right. and those transfers, where they went, how they were disbursed

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>> are you saying that you be taking part in our upcoming election in 2024? >> i'll either be rolling an egg or being, you know, the guy whose pushed them out. >> come on. help a brother out. >> no, no, i plan on running, but we're not prepared to announce it yet.

jackie: that was president biden speaking wnbc saying he plans to run, but still no official word on an announcement on whether he will run for re-election in 2024. joining us tonight, someone who has announced 2024 presidential candidate vivek ramaswamy. always great to see you. thank you so much for joining us president biden barely can string a sentence together there , let alone run in 2024. what due think? >> i think the leadership vacuum in the white house right now is staggering and that's what's actually weakening america on the global stage. when america fails to lead, that is when xi-jinping and vladimir putin and nbs fill that vacuole and one of the reasons i'm running for president is to take the america-first agenda to the next level. ground it not just in vengeance but grounded in moral authority and conviction, including leading on the global stage as a member of a new generation and i think that biden and frankly i'd say that biden's model and generation of governing it's

finally time to go. jackie: kevin o'leary was just talking about how a deal needs to be brokered with china. you think about this administration, and president biden saying he be so strong on foreign policy, completely failed. he obviously doesn't know how to broker a deal with anybody but having said that, how would you handle the current situation that we're facing with china and all the tension right now? >> so here is the opportunity we face. china is actually in a vulnerable position. people forget this. xi-jinping did what autocrats do he shot china in the foot to hold on to his unprecedented third term of power last october that creates a window of opportunity for the u.s. , to actually declare independence from china. now i think that you have to like in any negotiation be willing to make a sacrifice, so one of the things i've said as president is that i think is we need to be prepared to de couple from china until and unless the ccp reforms its behaviors. but if we're strong on that then that actually will i think be a catalyst for the ccp to abandon

its practices ip theft, data theft. this is our window to actually strike economically, so that we can defeat them economically, such that we never have to militarily. that's my model of governing as president. jackie: this is an administration that's essentially tipping the scales in china's favor basically offer ing them opportunity-after-opportunity and an administration that's using tiktok which is basically mining our data here in the united states for who knows what kind of purpose later on, to promote its message. i just want you to listen to this , vivek. >> see , this is exactly what leadership looks like. unlike republicans, president biden actually supports democracy and he's not going to just sit by and watch republican s do these crazy radical things like expelling democrats for supporting gun control. thank you to president biden and these representatives for standing up for democracy and standing up for america. jackie: the irony that the white house is using tiktok to send its message out. >> so this is the chinese model

, to use the trojan horse, right? greece would have never defeated troy so they use the gift of the trojan horse instead is effectively what china is doing through products like tiktok that they addict the american population and then use that to collect data and gain a geo political advantage. unfortunately, the democratic party is also addicted to tiktok because it helps them win elections. china understands that. that's why they exploit it. jackie: really quickly, george soros backed da's across the country essentially destroying the united states as we run it, crime is running rampant. having said that, soros's son visited the white house 14 times since 2021. your thoughts? >> this is raw corruption. i think both the republican party and democratic party have railed against corruptions, both parties need to do better. this is capitalism at its worst. you write a lot of checks to the democratic party to advance their agenda, guess what? you get undue influence. democrats used to want to keep money out of politics and they

are the party that used money to infect politics. the republican party has a chance to do better to say we will not be the party of capture that is why i'm running as an outsider because i don't think a member of the professional political class can actually liberate itself from the donor class. the democratic party is clearly corrupt. i want to lead a republican party actually better and independent of those corporate interests. jackie: vivek ramaswamy, you will be back with us shortly and we will see you in just a moment for our "hot take." meantime, a study blames climate change for more home runs. yes i'm talking about baseball. plus, we've got congresswoman claudia tenney on a texas bill giving 8,000 bucks per kid to opt out of public school but first let's check in with our friends dagen and sean to see what they've got on the bottom line. hi. dagen: hi. >> sean: we'll start off with michael pillsbury coming on to unpack what's going on in china, their aggression and arrogance and their saber rattling we'll go into that with michael pillsbury. dagen: and epa trying to help joe biden ramp up how many

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a >> it's not something new, of course we all know if texas were to pass this law through the texas house and on to the governor's desk we be the 31st state in the nation to offer school choice and education of freedom. jackie: that was texas state senator brandon crate on on the texas legislation working towards school choice. to discuss this more, bringing in congresswoman claudia tenney. great to see you tonight. thank you so much for joining us you co-sponsored the parent's bill of rights. urls familiar with the fight that parents are going through right now, so that they can be involved in their children's education. what do you say to this bill in texas? i imagine you're cheering them on. >> yeah, this is something that's happening across the nation as obviously a real high point was the election of

governor glenn youngkin after the parent's rights issue became to the forefront and a lot of parents realized what was really going on in the schools by see ing what was happening during covid, so you know, this is a step in the right direction. i'm a supporter of public schools. i think public schools have an obligation. they have a right but when you see the new york city school district spending $200,000 for drag queen story hour to elementary children you know our teachers and when we have this aggressive agenda by the way, where do they have time to teach children this , when they aren't learning about the basics and we have such high failure rates all across the state, not just new york city, but also in rochester, buffalo and most of the city schools, they can't pay it past basic reading and writing tests. jackie: it's criminal, and so many parents are outraged about it, congresswoman, but feel like they have no power and there's nothing they can do about it. meanwhile in texas as they move forward $8,000 credit, this voucher that essentially will give the parents more

choice to transfer to private school, possibly home school, do a bunch of different things. the bill is likely to face some resistance in the house because the teachers unions are also putting pressure on this on the opposition as well. i believe we have a sound bite. we don't have it okay, but your thoughts on the unions and their roles in this , randi weingarten , they want to control our children's minds and they want it so that these kids seemingly cannot pass exams and compete essentially with china. >> yeah, it's all about the kids though if you listen to the teachers unions. i served in the state legislaturend and its always going to be better and we fought of this common core curriculum when i was a member of the state legislature but parents have an opportunity to have a choice and they have an opportunity to not have their tax dollars spent on wasteful things that do not give children basic critical thinking skills, and randi weingarten makes what, five or $600,000 out there promoting

this? who is she to decide what our children's rights are and by the way, what's your powerful than the teachers unions in a state like new york? we're not a right to work state. the teachers unions are probably more powerful than the trial lawyers, imagine that so i think this is a good movement that gives parents an option and i'll tell you what's happening in new york state is all these private schools are starting to have a rebirth. parents are starting to say wait a minute. i want to have an option and have a choice and make sure my children are learning and learn ing the skills they need to learn and not about drag queen story hour, but they are learning that this is ridiculous when they aren't passing the basic arithmetic and math tests and reading tests that we took when i was a student. jackie: yeah and in the case of the unions and randi weingarten actions speed louder than whatever words she speaks because you think about the actions during the pandemic that kept our kids at home, kept our children masked when they did go back-to-school. the learning loss they incurred and the fact it will take, they

aren't making any effort to basically get them caught up. it actually is criminal. that's not even to speak of the indoctrination in the classroom. congresswoman, we are out of time but it's always great to talk to you, thank you. >> thank you. jackie: all right, evening edit "hot take ed a study blaming climate change for more home runs, stay with us.

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♪. jackie: back with me now, 2024 presidential candidate, vivek ramaswamy. tonight's "hot take." the white house targeting washers, gas stoves, refrigerators, you name it to force electric vehicles to total 67% of all new passenger vehicles sold by 2032. have democrats lost all common sense? now, a dartmouth college research paper argues that hotter weather from climate change has played a role in the surge of home runs in major league baseball, because they say, balls fly a greater distance in warmer air which is less dense. vivek sometimes i have to kind of pinch myself i don't feel like i live in reality when i hear things like this. >> this is a lot of hot air, let's be honest about that you know what? i will also say this climate change is supposedly caused by carbon emissions that allowed us to hit more economic home runs. you know what allows us to hit

economic home runs? drilling, fracking, burning coal. you know what i will give them credit, first time they said something good about the effects of climate change. more people die of cold temperatures than warm ones. i hope we start to see some good effects of climate change. allow more home runs, economic home runs be some of them. jackie: absolutely unbelievable. you're right about the green agenda. vivek ramaswamy we're out of time. appreciate you joining us on on "the evening edit." jackie: i'm jackie deangelis in for elizabeth macdonald. that will do it for us. time for the bottom line, dagen, sean i promise keep my tv on. always great to see you. sean: great show, jackie. >> thank