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no, i can't, no, i didn't, you know what i mean, larry in the. larry: yes, ma'am. elizabeth: larry, thank you so much. critics saying you want any more proof president biden cannot do it in the real time, he launched his 2024 the races on a youtube video. he talks a lot about unity, but it was divisive, sour. he bashed gop voters, failed to mention a single accomplishment, no vision, no optimism. let's get to former george w. bush speech writer, bill mcgurn, and former top economic adviser, steven moore. bill, what did you think of speech today? >> well, i think it was pretty typical, you know in joe biden sees himself as the dethe fender of democracy -- defender of democracy. when he looks at enemies of america, he doesn't look abroad, you know? he talks about bag georgia republicans -- maga republicans in terms that he wouldn't talk about the chinese, north koreans, iranians or maybe even russians.

so i think it's very negative. it's certainly not what he promised when he first got elected. but i think that that's his strategy. to win again, he can't talk about his achievements, because i don't think there really are any except getting things, some things passed and spending all this money. so he has to paint a picture of this very dark america where where this group of fellow americans are sinister and extremist and, you know, white nationalists and all sorts of things. and he's standing between us and them. i don't know if the public will bite, but, you know, i might want to talk about that too if i had to talk about my economic record the way joe biden -- [laughter] elizabeth: good point. so what, steve, what bill just said, he's attacking americans. americans out in the real world don't see the reality that biden painted a picture of.

and, steve, he's saying give him four more years. for what? a majority don't want him to run. seven out of ten say the u.s. is heading in the wrong drefntle he's talking about his economic vision, but what's that vision, more inflationary government spending, tax cuts, more irs is agents? >> well, you know what's so interesting about this, liz, is that the people that are really hyperventilating right now are democrats. all of my democratic friends here mt. swamp of washington, d.c -- in the swamp of washington, d.c. are terrified at the idea of biden at the top of the ticket. they realize that he could take down the whole party. and by the way, not just because of his dismal record that bill was just talking about. i mean, that's pretty clear. but also, i mean, "wall street journal" editorial page where bill works is quite correct, you know, whether liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, i mean, let's face it, you know, he has -- we're all getting older, but as you get older, your mental faculties diminish, and i think people

have a hard time even imagining four more years of biden. i loved the editorial by gerry baker today in the quite journal which said four more years, it sounds like a prison sentence. [laughter] elizabeth: oh, man. whoa. that is a pretty good line there, steve moore. and, you know, bill, what steve was just saying, "the washington post" reports the average of eight national polls, six out of ten democrats don't want him to run are. trump had seven out of ten saying, yes, trump, run. obama had two out of ten saying -- let's listen to the democrat congressman jim clyburn acknowledging all of that. watch this. >> i think the president is going to have to deal with the whole issue of age. he is 80 years old. i might add i'm 82. i do believe that he's up to the task, and that is something that we just cannot pretend is not on people's minds.

is so i think he has to show the energy that he's been showing over the past several months. elizabeth: you know, bill, can joe biden go out on the campaign trail when he is unwilling to do a press conference or talk to, even talk to reporters? he's already the oldest president in u.s. history. he'll be 86 if he wins at end of his term. >> no, i don't think he can. everyone is seeing what i think is real decline. i don't know the reason for it. but you think putin sees it too and xi jinping. i don't think they're intimidated by him. you know, i don't think the american people it's just an age thing. if they felt there was real benefit for them, that they're feeling the effort of all this spending apart from inflation, they might, you know, they might not be worried. but what do they see? they feel, their real wages diminish. biden said he wouldn't tax

anyone i think over -- under 400,000? he's putting inflation in, and all these things that cost average workers, and they have less buying power than they did -- elizabeth: he's blaming ukraine, he's blaming the pandemic shutdowns. you're not buying that. you're saying it's the massive amount of government spending and federal money printing, principal reserve, right? >> yeah. look at inflation -- look at inflation. yes, it's way down from last summer, but it's a lot higher, i think it's still, like, three times higher than when he came into office. elizabeth: yeah, it's multiple times higher. now at nearly 15% all in. >> and that has implications -- elizabeth: right. >> -- for what people can afford at stores, their dreams, college, everything. elizabeth: that's true. you know, five senate races are up for grabs in this race. multiple house races too in all districts that biden -- only won by less than three percentage

points, steve. you know, we talked yesterday politico reported in 2016 obama said -- obama wanted hillary in 2016. in to 2012 the obama campaign reportedly kept biden off the campaign trail because of his frequent mistakes. let's watch this. watch this. >> as president, i get to pick projects, i get to fund projects from the money that we get from the congress. think how many people have no idea what the hell -- heck a supply chain was. [laughter] and by the way, jonah hayes -- where are you? there you are, jonah, right in front of me. stand up, jonah. let me start off with two words, made in america. in 2018 when they tried -- we went to 54 states. more than half the women in my cabinet, more than half the people in my cabinet, more than half the women in my administration are women. jackie, are you here? jackie, where are you?

it's also kamala's birthday. a great president. think about what you'd think about. >> how would you say your mental focus is? >> oh, it's focused. [laughter] elizabeth: by the way, of it was johanna hayes, calling on a congresswoman who had died in a car crash. steve, your final word on all of this. >> well, you left out one of my favorite ones just a week or two ago. he said he's created 12,500 job, and that's more jobs than any president in history. [laughter] look, it's not good for the country. it's not good for the country that joe biden is running. and i'm saying this as a republican who would like to run against joe biden. they hope, the democrats simply hope that they can make this election about donald trump -- elizabeth: right. >> but elections are always about the incumbent, and this is going to be a thumbs up or thumbs down about joe biden, and when you've got 70% of the people saying the country's going in the wrong direction, boy, i don't like those odds for the democrats. elizabeth: thank you so much.

joe concha, first, good to see you, gentlemen. mr. tolman, first to you, fox digital reporting secretary of state antony blinken held a meeting with hunter bide ant state department in july 20 a 15 when he was obama's secretary of state and he had been e-mailing hunter while he was on the board of the energy firm barista, but then antony blinken is basically trying to tell the world things like, oh, the hunter biden laptop information is russian disinformation, that he's behind orchestrating that with former top cia official michael morrell and those intelligence officials for the 2020 election. where do you come down on all of this? >> you know, liz, thanks for having me on. when we remove transparency and accountability, then we know what happens with government. i think president reagan summed it up, government becomes the problem. the power is not just in a vacuum to be grabbed, it's attained when we take away that

transparency. and if you have no fear that you're going on the held accountable for something, you start to see the revelations we're seeing about the biden family. and about how twisted and warped their sense of fairness and their sense of misconduct and their ethics, and is it all goes along with that lack of transparency and accountability. elizabeth: you know, what fred just said, joe, where do you come down on? because the media's not reporting what the house gop probe is finding, you know, about the biden family. you know, it's a corruption probe in the house. you know, we had hostile foreign powers, china and russia, lavishing millions of dollars on the biden family buying influence. but the media are not covering it, joe. >> it's the forbidden fruit of journalism, i guess, liz. a third rail that they will not touch just like they didn't touch it before the 2020 election after that new york post bombshell came out. think about what this means, by the way. a future secretary of state in tony blinken sets in motion something that is actually worse

than watergate. i hate to go all carl bernstein on you here, but think about what happened here. a presidential campaign, working many concert with 51 former top intelligence officials who, without seeing the evidence, the access to the laptop itself all in unison come to the conclusion that it must be russian disinformation, it came from the kremlin. today didn't say it because they necessarily believed that, they were trying to manipulate the electoral system themselves. you want to talk about collusion, social media from there, they cent censor -- censor accounts that share the story, engage in the type of behavior that would make pyongyang proud, and then the final baton is passed to traditional media who outside of this network and a small handful of others worked to squash and mock and dismiss this bombshell. if that isn't an attack on democracy9 and the electoral positive, i don't know -- process, i don't know what is. it's obviously being slow-walked to extend past the 2024 the will election so swamp and social media and traditional media can

install this president again, liz. elizabeth: we're looking at the data coming in from newsbusters. in the first two weeks of march, the networks according to newsbusters spent zero minutes on the biden family investigations, you know, four and a half hours on trump. but, yes, trump was facing an indictment by the manhattan d.a.. that that's being called a troubled case. but democrat congressman brad sherman even saying it's obvious to everybody that somebody who was pro-biden organized the letter from the 51 u.s. intelligence officials and that blinken was playing a role in the campaign to orchestrate that to say that the hunter biden laptop was russian disinformation when president biden knew all along that it was true, it was his laptop. >> well, and think about it, i think joe is exactly right. i appreciated his comments. i also think there's one other rail, there's one other, you know, hurdle that they pose in order to, you know, pull off this sort of, you know,

corruption. and that is you have to then go on the offense and attack anybody that's trying to blow the whistle on it. look what they're doing to whistle blowers that are coming forward. look how they're attacking and treating media personalities that want to expose the corruption. and then look what they're saying in congress about individuals that are trying to expose this, and their plan is to cancel them, right? that is the last straw for them in terms of how they get away with that corruption. and we have to be there and resist it. elizabeth: you know, by the way, that was other critics saying that, basically, you know, what was going on, joe, with the biden family corruption that, you know, critics were saying the president when he was running in 2020 had to have known it was hunter biden's happen op. brad sherman did not say. that i just want to be clear about that. andrew mccarthy, joe, he's raising this question: even lower level government officials who need security clearances got, they got to report all their foreign transactions and

contacts. and he's asking did the biden family do that? did hunter biden do that? did joe biden reveal what his family was doing? >> well, the bank receipts and laptop appear to show that these things happened. under the trump administration, so many scandals were he said/she said, a source close to the president or white house, could be white house chef for all we know. in this case we have actual receipts and documentation of clearly influence peddling happened with our biggest adversary in china and ukraine which we've given tens of billions of dollars to in what seems to be a never ending war because that is in a stalemate and doesn't seem to be moving anywhere. the media can ignore this all they want, but once the indictments start coming, i have a feeling they won't be able to anymore. 272 minutes to trump and 0 to biden? if you couldn't give me 30 seconds of coverage on this? [laughter] of course not. elizabeth: and now we've got that irs whistle-blower coming forward, that that top agent.

we'll probably see those revelations in the next week or so. brett tolman, joe concha, thanks for great insights and perspectives. we'll have you back again soon. okay, we have former president trump, he's now attacking governor ron desantis over florida. and house oversight now threatens to subpoena john kerry. and more states in an uproar over china buying up u.s. farmland. and the big controversy biden will have to defend if the his 2024 the campaign, and it's not hunter biden, t it's not just that, it's not hunter bide, the biden family cashing in on his government job. plus, lawsuits grow against the biden white house as unconstitutional end run around congress with its mandate on green energy, electric cars and also on power plants. that's next on "the evening edit." we've got senator roger hard shall, former dea special operations agent derek matle and ford to come. we've got a hot show tonight.

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secretary mayorkas for his role in the border collapse, and still crickets, nothing on your senate report? overwhelming evidence the pandemic did likely leak from two lab accidents least in china? >> right. so all that's going on, and we're all wondering what job is joe biden trying to pix? think about what he's done. we have biden inflation which has destroyed our economy. he's erased our southern borders, and now 0 -- 300 americans are dying every day from fentanyl poisoning. he's destroyed the morals of families across the nation. he wants boys competing against girls. this world that joe biden has created is something that none of us dreamed of. even i underestimated what barack obama old us, don't underestimate joe biden's ability to mess things up. elizabeth: you know, senator, how is it that the biden white house can do massive end runs around the senate, around congress for electric vehicles and power plant rules? supreme court already ruled haas year the epa cannot regulate

green host gas emissions from power plants, that the epa doesn't have the authority to force carmakers to sell a specific number of electric cars. the obama white house attempted all of this, and it didn't hold up in court. >> right. so joe biden doesn't care about the rule of law, he doesn't care what the supreme court has ruled. look, this is another example of the climate dem -- dem demagogues attacking hard working americans, folks that a make those chevy malibus up in my gm plant in kansas city, their plant's going to be shuttered the same year these rules go into effect. we don't have infrastructure for the electric cars yet, we don't have the electricity to do it. again, these rules are written by people who worship the climate. elizabeth: watch democrat senator joe manchin. senator manchin's really angry. he's saying that president biden is violating the inflation reduction act promises and legislation laws on energy. and is you're going to see house

majority leader steve scalise speaking as well. watch this. >> we're not even energy independent ourself. you cannot remain and be the superpower of the world unless you have energy independence and energy security. we have the gas, we have the oil, we have the coal. we can do it better and cleaner than third in the world. >> why would he want to go and kneecap the very source of energy that's allowing america to lead the world in lower emissions when all the countries that he gets on his private jet and flies around the globe emitting all kind of carbon going to in the europe, it's crushing middle class families, and it's making our country less competitive to countries like china. all of the products, the solar panels, over 90% made in can china. the car battery, they want to get rid of the combustion engine, all of those batteries are made in china. they won't even let you mine critical minerals in america. elizabeth: what do you think, senator? >> right. this is another job we're afraid joe biden's going to finish, and that's his attack on american energy. look, i grew up in the oil and

gas industry, still live there. number one, we can't get permits, number two, we can't get financing x then we can't find the people to do the jobs either. joe biden continues to drive up the price of gas lean. this is why we call it biden-flation. he owns this, and this is why if america's going fire him in two more years. elizabeth: electric car manufacturers are already raising prices on cars. people aren't buying them. the biden subsidies don't cover -- the tax credit gets cut in half if the material sources for the batteries aren't made in the u.s. we have billions of dollars of losses in this area. the top wind energy companies also reporting billions of dollars in losses. ge, we're talking stress thats too. they're trying to ramp it up by forcing it down taxpayers' throats. >> right. this is this is part of that biden attack on hard working americans. those same union workers i was

talking about would probably have to work for 15 month months to to buy that chevy malibu or the new electric car rather hand the chevy malibu. we can't tolerate joe biden driving the price up. elizabeth:9 i mean,st a good thing, it look like electricity from wind power grew, like, 17% in 2021. but then there's talk that the wind farms kill whalesesome i mean, it's just really a mixed bag. senator marshall, pleasure having you on. it's good to see you. okay, house oversight now threatens to subpoena john kerry. we're going to get into that. and we've got more u.s. stateses in an uproar over china buying up u.s. farmland. we also have gop strategist ford o'connell, major knockdown fight between president trump now going after ron desantis, the governor of florida, over what's going on in florida. it's coming up on "the evening edit.." ♪ i ♪ ns with the money we saved, we tried electric unicycles.

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elizabeth: well, look who's back, gop strategist, ford o'connell. ford, it's always good to see you. ford, what do you make of former president trump attacking governor ron desantis the claiming that desantis is botching florida? is the just typical political -- what can do you make of it? >> donald trump is trying to turn desantis' strength which is florida and his leadership into a weakness. you know, right now trump has the momentum in the polls, he's controlling the narrative in the room, and basically he's trying to the take what desantis believes is his strength and turning into it a weakness. when you add to that that a majority of u.s. house florida republicans have endorsed donald trump, it's a pretty powerful message. elizabeth: that's a one-two punch, what trump is doing here with desantis. trump's saying under ron desantis, florida has become among the worst with state os to live, fine economic opportunity, work, retire, pay taxes? i mean, have a baby. he went on and on on the list. it's bad for working dads and working moms. i mean, trump just flamed him on

th. >> well, he absolutely did flame him on that. and to your point, remember, people outside of the state of florida don't understand the ins and outs of florida. and right now what trump is trying to do is make them not look favorably upon ron desantis. and when you look at the polls in my home state of florida, you're starting to see that it's actually working with floridians as well as donald trump is now edging out ron desantis in florida. elizabeth: yeah, he's getting more trump, what you just said, trump is getting more endorsements, congressional endorsements out of florida lawmakers in congress, right? >> well, that's exactly right. and remember, what's the message here? ron desantis is saying i did great for florida, look what i can do for america. then you have folks like byron donalds and greg steube and others defect to the trump camp? that's a very, very powerful message for republican grassroots folks across the country. elizabeth: the washington examiner made the point the republican nominee in 2024 could be the guy who wants to make

america great again, to who agrees with california golf newsome that florida is bad under desantis the, or it could be the guy who made florida good, and has desantis. so it's an interesting thing that's happening right now between these two really powerful republican contenders. >> oh, it absolutely is, liz. and, look, i think that this is republican primary politics. we do know that florida is the beacon of free come when it comes to -- freedom when it comes to changing america back. and donald trump lives in florida. i will say though when you look at the message that was sent to ron desantis, it was very simple, the majority of house members basically said leave 2024 to trump and focus on governing florida. elizabeth: what did you think of biden's announcement on a youtube video today, his 2024 the bid? it was really downbeat and negative. americans want to see optimism. they don't want to vote for a candidate who continually attacks america or american voters. biden was bashing maga voters,

many worked with millennials in the midterms. americans don't want to seedy iciveness -- divisiveness. >> basically, i think gerry baker has it right when he says it sounds like another 4-year prison sentence. americans want to know how you're going to lead them out of the many crises, and i don't think america can afford four more years of joe biden. elizabeth: and the economic problems that that the u.s. is facing right now. and, ford, what's going to to the hang up biden is this house corruption probe into the biden family cashing in on his government job, and now we have a circuit saying, listen, hunter biden, you've got to testify in this paternity case where he's i saying he's not the father of a daughter who's, i think, around 4 years old. that's -- now he's going to have to come, hunter biden as' going to have to come into court and testify. so stuff about the biden family is really going to hang up the president on the campaign rail. he's a man who's not used to

campaigning. you know, ford, the pandemic gave him cover, right? that he couldn't go out to campaign. he doesn't have the pandemic, biden doesn't have that anymore. reuters is saying he's going to have to hit the campaign trail, ford. a lot of stuff he's going to have to answer to. >> i think you're absolutely right, but if republicans want the white house os in 2024, they're going to have to remind the american public of the failure -- elizabeth: and have an economic growth plan, right? it has to be positive, optimist i -- optimistic, forward-looking vision for america. because the standard of living has been eroded the last two years with inflation. real wages down after inflation. final world. >> i think you're absolutely right, it's about putting forth optimism and talking about growth in the economy, because biden's failures have are created a recession that's really hurting america. elizabeth: yeah. 1% growth. stagflation. ford o'connell, we'll see you, before the show ends, you'll be back with us. the big controversy that biden, another one, he'll have to answer to in his 2024

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elizabeth: okay, this is a really stunning story that's happening in michigan. the voters and taxpayers are in an uproar. why? china is moving to build a big electric car battery factory near a small town, green charter township in rural michigan. hundreds of locals now fighting to stop that. fox news' alexis mcadams live with more. >> reporter: good evening, elizabeth. it's all part of president biden's push for green energy that we've been talking about. the president says michigan is building the future of the electric car, which sounds good, right? but the issue is these two massive ev projects are backed by companies with ties to the ccp, so people have questions. this is where that goshen plant

plans to break ground in west central michigan. it's a u.s.-based company that makes batteries for electric cars, but its parent company is based many china. the company looking to break ground there in green charter township i. says it will make parts for electric vehicle batteries. the michigan senate committee just barely approved the $175 million in state funds just the other day for this project. michigan democratic congresswoman debbie dingell tells fox the u.s. works with these companies many china because they have the ev technology, but the relationship's pretty complicated. >> let us be clear, if you are a chinese business, the communist government is part of your business. so it's something that a worries me every day. >> reporter: so others there, as you can see, are protesting. residents have a lot of questions, and they have questions over those national security risks. local officials say it's dividing the community. >> it's made enemies out of neighbors, and i'm sorry to say that.

>> reporter: questions are also swirling about a ford plant in marshall, michigan, about 200 miles away. the ford motor company teaming up with a chinese tech company who plans to spend more than $3 billion to build an ev battery plant. so we're talking about two of these plants just in michigan alone. right now more than a dozen states have laws are on the books, elizabeth, that prevent investors with ties to foreign adversaries from buying farmland. many others, including michigan, could soon be on that list. elizabeth: what a story. thank you so much. let's welcome to the show from the house select subcommittee, select committee on can they that, congressman dan newhouse. it's good to see you, sir. you introduced a bill banning china there buying u.s. farmland. how can there's no law that stops any foreign nation for doing this. >> thank you very much, elizabeth, it's good to be with you. your last story and this issue, just another example of the continuing threat from countries who are not our allies gaining a foothold in our national and economic security.

why don't we have a law governing the purchase of farmland in the united states? well, there are some directions, there are some rules, but what i'm told -- and i asked this recently of the secretary of the department of agriculture -- they don't have the resources, and in some cases the authority that they need. so we need to give them congressional direction and those resources so they can get the job done to uphold the law are. because we're seeing an increasing threat from countries like can china. in fact, just to add on to what your previous story was about, over the last decade we've seen an increase, a tenfold increase in the purchase by china of agricultural assets in the united states. and this is something that, yeah, i'm heartened that my colleagues are finally seeing that this is an issue we have to address. elizabeth: yeah. you wonder is it benign or a malign. here's the why of the story, china is hit with alarming levels of loss of its own farmland. it's, like, one-third of its

agricultural land are suffers problems like erosion. they can't grow things. it imports more food than any other nation in the world, and they own, like, 1300 food processing factories. they own smithfield farms, the big pork if producer. they're not going to let up. >> no, they're not. and we're seeing what's happening around the world, or around the globe. they are inserting themselves into countries all over the place, even in our, our own hemisphere. and what we see there we don't want to see happening in the united states of america. we don't want to the take up in 10, 20, 30 years and find that the ccp, the communist party of china, has a stronghold on one of the most vital linkses in our supply chain, and that's our food supply. elizabeth: you know, john kerry sits on cabinet. he sits on the national security council. nobody knows who east on his payroll. we have house oversight chair john comber threatening to subpoena john kerry because he's flying around the world doing

these negotiations with nations like china, but nobody knows what he's doing. and, again, we don't know fully who's on his payroll and what their remit is. let's get your reaction to florida governor ron desantis and a michigan farmer on this story. watch this. >> i'm going to be signing legislation very soon that eliminates possibility of ccp land purchases if florida. in florida. no farmland -- [applause] no land near critical infrastructure, none. you look at what xi jinping has done, he is on the move around world. so they are flexing muscle, and i think fact that biden has been very weak on the world sage is emboldening them to do even more. >> nobody wanted to sell their land are. they were kind of bullied into it, and they're scared. they use these tactics where hay give them a few hours to make a decision or we're going to have this factory right up to your back door, and you're going to have 24/7 noise pollution and possible lithium dust and blah, blah, blah, so they're terrified. they're, like, this is the only

chance you're going to get, so you better sell now. elizabeth: what coyou say, or congressman? >> i think good for them to finally be taking a stand. when i started raising this issue over two years ago, there were only six states throughout the country that had any kind of laws on the books to prohibit the purchase of agricultural land by foreign entities. this is growing. it's a growing trend. even in my own state of washington, legislatorses are looking at this issue. and i think that that's really a good thing so that we can prevent, like i said, what we've been seeing happening in countries around the world where china comes many and takes control of very important pieces of infrastructure as well as their food production. we cannot let that happen in our country. elizabeth: congressman, terrific to have you on the show. we'll have you back on again soon. we've got our hot take coming up, plus former dea special operations director, he is derek matle. we've got a big controversy that the president will have to

defend on his 2024 campaign trail, and it's not the hunter biden story. "the evening edit" is going to have that story coming up, but we want to check in with dagen and sean. again, heavy got a jam-packed hour of news for you on "the bottom line." this is a hot shot. sean: e mac or, thank you. we've got senator ron johnson coming up, we're going to dive into president joe biden's re-election bid as well as antony blinken's push to lie to the american people on the hunter biden laptop story as well as jason chaffetz. right, dagensome. dagen: absolutely. and then douglas murray on some fort worth police officers breaking bad on some half-ass ored antifa jerks who were attacking peaceful protesters and, of course, jimmy failla. we're all over everything and hen some. sean: 15 minuteses from now. ♪

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already to fight this? >> well, thank you for having me, liz are. i mean, look, there's a lot of movement, there's a lot of talk, but we need action. the country is being saturated with deadly fentanyl pills and deadly fentanyl powder. just to give you an example, liz, just like last week at port of entry in san diego, they seized 3.a 5 million fake -- 3.5 million fake pills. if you look at the dea statistics, 6 out of 10 pills have a potentially lethal dose of fentanyl. it gives everybody an idea of the level of death and destruction coming our way. so senate, congress, they can talk all day long. need to destroy the chemical labs in mexico. look at new orleans, liz. they just put out a report that 95% of the overdoses last year were fentanyl-related. the texas department of state health services put out a report that 97% of the unintentional sin met thissic drug opioids were related to fentanyl.

the entire country is saturated. i deal with the families. this has been going on five years, ask we need action, less words. elizabeth: let's show the list of celebrities who accidentally died from painkillers hayesed with fentanyl. we're talking tom petty, prince, coolio reportedly accidentally died from heroin laced with fentanyl. he also did meth. the wire actor, michael williams, died from accidental overdose of heroin laced with fentanyl. the list goes on and on and on, derek, and now we have the white house press secretary, kjp, critics are saying he made these claims that the house republicans are fighting to put fentanyl on the street by defunding border patrol, but the gop wants more money for border e patrol. >> the bottom line is if you just look at the volume of fentanyl in the country, look, border patrol, cbp, they've done a great job. this year alone, in the first six months, they seized 13,900

pounds of fentanyl. last year for the entire year it was only 14,700 pounds. i say only, that's almost half already. elizabeth: all right. you know, let's -- you know, moms and dads are losing their children. watch end again this mom testify about the murder of her two sons from fentanyl poise to softening. watch this -- poisoning. watch this. >> you talk about children being taken away from their parents? my children were taken away from me. i don't use the term drug overdose because with this was not an overdose, this was murder. this is a war. act like it, do something! finish. elizabeth: did you hear that? war. act like it. go ahead, derek. >> yes. i work with these families every day. i hear these stories. just this month alone we had six or seven dead in call a ma zoo michigan -- kalamazoo, 18 dead in milwaukee. we had 40 people poise to softened at the end of march in

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♪. liz: for the "hot take" tonight, back with us gop strategist ford o'connell. what is really striking today, ford, president biden announced his 2024 bid via youtube video, not a press conference. his poll numbers are dropping. he didn't mention any of his accomplishments. instead bashing republican voters. the unity president is really divisive here. he failed to describe what he plans to do in his second term. he didn't mention things like inflation or anything. >> that is exactly right. three minute video, not one accomplishment. he saying the american people should reelect me. this entire 2024 campaign from

biden's camp will be about gaslighting and division. they will try to tell you republicans are to blame for all of your ills, except the difference is it is biden to blame for. liz: the record is there he has the record to show. give him four more years when majority of democrats do not want him to run. voters overall say the u.s. is heading in the wrong direction, ford. >> you can't get seven out of 10 americans to agree on anything. the only thing they seem to agree on how abysmal joe biden is, he should retire. i am going to tell you right now this will be a very close 2024 presidential election, just because of the way the electoral map is set up. liz: what do you mean? >> what i mean is, republicans can and should win this election but if they don't figure out a way to master ballot harvesting early voting in states like arizona, georgia, wisconsin, pennsylvania, joe biden will be elected whether or not he can actually physically govern or

not? liz: so the republicans are saying they need to get on the stick. you know what would be great for this nation? if we had a third party candidate. really mix it up with a third party candidate. but the thing is can joe biden go out on the campaign trail when he is unwilling to do a press conference or talk to reporters? you see trump all the time talking with the press. trump sits down with people. he explainses what is going on. biden is already the oldest president in u.s. history. trump looks vigorous. love him or hate him trump has a the positive message right now. >> biden you have to question whether he is up for the task, question his mental a cutie. what the democrat strategists will do, they will keep biden off the campaign trail, tiktok influencers, social media influenceers and media. liz: how long will that catch

on? >> i don't think the media catch up caught on to what fox news and fox business is going on at border. they are h they have been ignoring that for 2 1/2 years. they will continue do the same thing. liz: basically, trump, biden. knock down, drag out fight trump can fight, use biden record as punching bag on the campaign trail? final word. >> this will be a battle, all hands on deck, looks like it will be donald trump. donald trump can certainly win. liz: depending on desantis. it is exciting. ford coconnell. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching "the evening edit" on fox business. please email us. we read your emails. you guys are smart. time for "the bottom line," hi dagen and sean. dagen: hello elizabeth macdonald. liz: good to see you again. hello.