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right up here larry. thank you very much for asking them. meanwhile the biden administration is boasting that the economy is actually doing quite well, including claims that wages are growing, but in reality, they are down, when considering the rate of inflation. we'll get into all of that and get this , treasury secretary janet yellen now claiming that " inflation is not part of an economic decline." what do you think? the white house does not want to talk about this at all and critics are hitting out against attorney general merrick garland for catering to joe biden and letting politics run rampant in donald trump's indictment. we have senator rick scott, house judiciary chairman jim jordan, congressman michael burg ess and tony gonzalez, former anding u.s. attorney general matt whitaker, former moody's chief economist john lonski and judicial watch tom fitton. what a show. i'm david asman in for elizabeth macdonald. the "evening edit" starts right

now. and let's kick it off with the latest on the biden family shady business dealings. fox news jacqui heinrich is live at the white house with more on all this. investigate the claims that a burisma executive bribed then-vice president joe biden and his son hunter, alleged on an fbi 1023 form after claims surfaced that this ukrainian businessman kept tapes of his conversation. senator marsha blackburn is raising issue with the doj. so far not taking any action on this and also, the fbi, she says , withheld information from lawmakers. >> they are making that choice to redact this. they came before us and had different versions of this story

, so because of this and because they are shield ing the bidens, so, we feel like we caught him in this. we need this special counsel. reporter: so far, the biden white house is not commenting at all on this as the president also stays mum on his predecessors indictment. >> turned all my notes in. >> [laughter] >> [applause] >> but that's not a reference to the former president. reporter: republicans are declaring a double standard of justice pointing to former president trump's arrest and no action in the second special counsel probe over biden's mishandling of documents. congressman nancy mace going so far as to say you are watching a sitting president use his doj to put his top political rival in jail. attorney general merrick garland swiftly corrected that statement listen.

>> mr. smith is a veteran career prosecutor. he has assembled a group of experienced and talented prosecutors and agents who share his commitment to integrity and the rule of law. any questions about this matter will have to be answered by their filings in court. we live in a democracy. these kind of matters are adjudicated through the judicial system. reporter: the president is trying to keep great distance between himself and the doj. has now reportedly instructed his campaign and the dnc not to comment at all on trump's business but the first lady is apparently going into that conversation a little bit. just yesterday at a fundraiser, she made the 2024 election a comparison between joe biden and corruption and chaos under trump and also said earlier this week that she was shocked. polls show a majority of republicans still plan to

support trump following his indictment and shocking that they don't care about the indictment. david? david: all right, jacqui heinrich thank you very much appreciate it. for more on all of this let's bring in house judiciary chairman congressman jim jordan. jim, great to see you thank you for being here. >> thank you, david. david: let me get right into the matter of these tapes that supposedly exist somewhere, apparently some burisma executive was worried that some of what either some of what they were paying wouldn't pay off or god knows for what reason but he claims there's 17 tapes. do you know where those tapes are or even if they exist? >> i don't. i don't know if they exist but i do know chairman grassley and senator grassley was, he's the guy whose worked with more whistleblowers in this town than anyone else. he's the guy who wrote the revised statute on the whistleblower. he thinks it's credible enough to bring the whistleblower brought it to him and it's credible enough to say on the senate floor. what i do know is when i saw that document, there was so many

redactions in it and it's not a classified document, so remember , the fbi's history here the fbi said first of all well, we won't even confirm whether the document exists. then they said well it exists but you can't see it. then they said well it exists but we'll let the chairman and the ranking member see it and finally the full committee see it. i got to see it last week but they still had all kinds of redactions so that to me is a problem because again it's not classified and this is a source they had for multiple years who they paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to who was credible, who they compiled this is an fbi document. they produced it and wrote this stuff down. that i think is a problem. david: well there's another possibility here and i only mention it because we know what happened with the hunter biden laptop that the fbi had for months and months and months while everybody was discussing whether it was real or not. is it conceivable that the fbi might actually have these tapes? >> i think who knows, but you're right. they had the laptop for a long time and they kept that secret.

they actually did this pre- bunking operation where they told people the fbi and everyone else, told people be on the look out for certain things pre-bunking the story that came out ultimately in the new york post. that was accurate, so yeah. i just don't know. what i do know is when i read the document, one thing that jumped out to me was the confidential human source is telling the foreign nationals to stay away from bidens they are shady folks and excuse me the foreign national says back to the source, he says not to worry. we used so many bank accounts, they will never find us, and i thought the key line, david, was he said and, we never paid the big guy directly. that's the second time someone's used that term and this time it's someone whose on the paying end. the other time we heard about it was someone on the receiving end and a partner of hunter biden so we have people on both sides of the equation using that same term and it sort of raises the fundamental question. if the big guy isn't joe biden, who is it? tell us who it is. david: to the point of the many bank accounts and the suggestion

by that informant that its gone through so many different bank accounts, it would take 10 years to unravel. then you had the president joking about it at that question was shouted to him about where the money. he said "where's the money"? he joked about where's the money it's almost like he knows that it's so well-hidden they are never going to find it. >> well, when you have 20 different companies, llc's and corporations you've setup and you have what, 150 or 160 suspicious activity reports that our treasury put together and i tell folks, in that term suspicious activity reports the keyword is the word " suspicious" so much so that our treasury department in the biden -obama administration put these reports together. that sort of tells you something again, i don't know if the mainstream press out there, the left wing press ever picked this up but it sure seems suspicious in a big sense to i think anyone whose paying

attention. david: now if there's more evidence, more than just circumstantial evidence, but specific evidence that leads to questions about what he did when he was vice president, might even suggest there was a bribe that paid in there when he was vice president. that's not when he was president would that be an impeachable offense, something that happened before he actually became president? >> it would sure seem so, and again, if you're good on that, then i say this all the time. that's a question for the entire republican conference. we've got to be driven by the facts and if we make a decision to go there, i think that's got to be something we decide as a whole as republicans in the house of representatives, but we've got to just right now compile and gather all of the facts we can. it's again, underscores why we want the unredacted 1023 form, this document that the fbi put together, and if they do have these tapes if they exist we would love access to those as well. david: by the way, there was a sort of back and forth in the senate with the assistant

fbi director about all of this , what he knows, what he has, et cetera. let me just play that for you and get your reaction. roll tape. >> sure. >> i'm just not going to comment on information we received investigations on. >> you owe an obligation to the american people to be candid about evidence of corruption by the president of the united states. >> this is an area i'm not going to get into with you, senator. >> because you're stonewalling and covering up serious allegations of evidence of corruption from the president. david: i didn't hear an acceptable answer to those questions, did you? >> no, i didn't, because he didn't give a reason why he couldn't answer the question. he just said i'm not going to answer the question. that is, is it because it's classified? no that's not the case because you've told us that. this is a document you put together that's not classified. is there an ongoing investigation? you haven't told us that affirmatively so what's the reason why you can't answer this senator's question, more importantly, what's the reason why the american people, we the

people, can't have access to something that's pretty darn important when you're thinking about the commander-in-chief? david: congressman real quick i want to switch gears. you subpoenaed climate action 100-plus today to get communications and documents related to the advancement of esg, the environmental social governance policies. what do you think you're going to find there? >> we'll see , but i think everyone's nervous about this push on esg and how it can hurt companies and maybe the anti-trust application of how they are coordinateing to on advertising and everything else with these companies so we want that information. this is all part of this broader investigation we're doing into how agencies are being used to go against the american people and in this case, american companies. so we'll see what kind of information we get back. david: you've got your hands full, young man. i hope you have time for all this stuff. it's a lot going on inside a congress. jim jordan, thank you very much for being here appreciate it. >> thank you, david. david: stocks ended mixed today after the fed announcement that it would pause rate hikes.

at least for the moment but what made markets nervous was powell stating that the fight against high inflation is not over for americans, just yet. edward lawrence is at the federal reserve with more on this. edward? reporter: well, david, the federal reserve ended a string of 10 consecutive rate hikes at their meetings. now this pause does not mean the fed is done raising interest rates. inflation remains the fed chairman's number one focus. >> inflation has moderated somewhat since the middle of last year. nonetheless inflation pressures continue to run high, and process of getting inflation back down to 2% has a long way to go. reporter: fed chairman adds each meeting will be data driven. some economists say the government spending has been pushing the inflation we're see ing. the fed chairman said he will not talk with lawmakers about the unsustainable fiscal path we're on. >> at what point do you talk more firmly with lawmakers about fiscal responsibility because i'm assuming monetary policy cannot handle alone the inflation or keep that inflation in check with the higher level of spending.

>> i don't do that. that's really not my job. we hope and expect that other policy makers will respect our independence on monetary policy and we don't see ourselves as the judges of appropriate fiscal policy. reporter: he adds under no circumstances will the federal reserve help finance any of the federal debt. back to you. david: edward lawrence, thank you very much. to discuss this , and more, let's bring in lonski group president and former moody's chief economist john lonski. good to see you. let me talk about powell for a second, because he's paused at the moment but he seemed unsure about what to do next. i mean, he's been so surprised for saying inflation was temporary, then that it was too high to cut without a lot more cuts, and now saying maybe he was wrong on both accounts. >> well not only has jerome powell lost credibility with the markets. he doesn't believe in himself anymore, the feds research it

seems. i think right now, the markets are between a rock and a hard place. you know, according to powell, he has this expectation of another half a percentage point increase by fed funds, and that will be realized if the economy continues to grow and profits grow but then again, the problem , if you're a shareholder, is that at some point, higher interest rates are going to slow the economy and shrink profits. on the other hand if he's wrong, and the fed doesn't increase interest rates, that's because the u.s. economy is probably slipping into that long-awaited recession by the final quarter of this year. david: then you have another problem. this is the bigger problem which is president biden himself claiming credit for bringing inflation down. let me just read a tweet. he said today's report shows inflation has fallen for middle class families. john, do you really think it was

this insanely titled piece of legislation called the anti- inflation act that was responsible for bringing inflation down because that was just a spending policy. it wasn't an anti-inflation policy. >> the inflation reduction act is one of the greatest misnomers of all-time. i would have called it the inflation preservation act i pa, like the ale people drink. he's totally wrong giving credit to himself for this slowdown with inflation. inflation is slowing 4% but that's off maybe more than 8% a year ago. that's a 12% gain over the past two years, which is quite painful for the average american , and -- david: but the fed, i hesitate to give the fed credit but they are the ones squeezing the economy by raising rates, responsible for bringing inflation down, right? >> and that's the danger, david because right now you're looking at the deepest year to year contraction of money supply measure m 2 which is basically deposits, money-market funds and

currency on record down 4.6%. that's the reason why deposits are now undergoing their deepest year-over-year percentage decline ever and banks are suffering. david: one final one, which is the most incomprehensible of all is what our treasury secretary said about inflation. roll tape. >> does the national bureau of economic research directly consider inflation when determining if we are in a significant economic decline? >> inflation is not part of an economic decline. david: inflation is not part of an economic decline. >> i got news for you. each previous episode where inflation was running faster than 6%, that inflation was brought to a decisive end by a recession. i don't think it's going to be any different this time around. david: does that make you a little nervous when you hear the treasury secretary saying inflation is not part of an economic decline? >> they don't veer from the narrative. you know that by now, david so

they have to makeup all these stories and fibs and order -- david: to make the boss happy. >> whoever the boss, and the boss is somebody else besides biden. david: the boss should be the american people that's something these guys don't understand. all right thank you very much, john. wonderful to see you. we have former acting u.s. attorney general matt whitaker on former president trump reportedly raising about $2 million, as first major fundraiser of his campaign after the indictment. we'll talk about that, next, on the "evening edit." i can't, you know, thank my parents enough for making sure that this connection is here. one of the things that my mother told me when she was in the hospital, she didn't tell me, actually, she couldn't speak at the time, but she wrote it down... "go see alicia." oh, my goodness. you know, and there was never a time that you were too busy.

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david: now let's welcome to the show, former acting u.s. attorney general matt whitaker to talk more about this trump indictment. matt, great to see you thank you for being here. i just want to read to you what the "wall street journal" said about this because you have both the attorney general and the president claiming that the special counsel's all in his own in this , no interference but here is what the journal says. mr. garland, who reports to mr. biden, has the authority to override a special counsel's recommendation. americans will inevitably see this as a garland-biden indictment and they are right to think so. do you agree? >> yeah, i couldn't agree more.

if you think about the way the department of justice is structured, all the police power s and really all of the powers of the department of justice emanate from the president and the executive under the constitution, and merrick garland just today tried to suggest that jack smith was an independent prosecutor but that's just not the way the regulations are written. they make it very clear that this special prosecutor, jack smith, is accountable to merrick garland and merrick garland is one appointed him. the only thing that mays him slightly less like a u.s. attorney, for example, is that it takes a cause to get rid of them but the decision-making and all that is ultimately has to be approved the attorney general. david: and i don't want to get too much into the weeds here , but there's a special counsel is very different from an independent counsel. the independent counsel can do on his own without interference by the attorney general what he

sees fit. not so with the special counsel in which the attorney general can really override what he has to say, or what decision he's made, correct? >> yeah, the independent counsel statute expired and so in response to that, the department of justice instead of allowing congress to attempt to put another independent counsel statute in place passed some regulations, but again, it is just derivative power from the attorney general and the president ultimately. david: and then we're going to talk about this a little more in the next segment but i just want to ask you about this. what former president trump said last night about using the espionage act to indict him. roll tape. >> threatening me with 400 years in prison for possessing my own presidential papers, which just about every other president has done, is one of the most outrageous legal theories ever put forward in an american court of law. the espionage act has been used

to go after traders and spies and has nothing to do with a former president legally keeping his own documents. david: now, i know, we're hear ing a lot, matt, about this conversation the president had a journalist where he waived a piece of paper and said, you know, this is a secret document that i actually didn't declassify, et cetera, but is there anything that sounds like or feels like or smells like espionage in what the president trump did? >> no, and actually, you know, this case, because there wasn't any attempt to leak these materials or otherwise benefit from them, the pain that this is causing our country, david, i think is great, and to what end? i just don't -- the juice is not worth the squeeze in this case, but you know, president trump is absolutely right. the presidential records act says all documents, all records, of a president and his administration, you know, so essentially any document that

passed through the president's hands, are presidential records and that about has a certain process and it's different and exclusive really of the espionage act which to me, that's going to be the biggest question here, david. david: and then you have the question of what the world is seeing and it's very important what the world sees in the way we operate here in the united states. the authority of the united states and the world stage is critical. they see a sitting president going after his chief rival in the next election. it looks for all the world like this is just using the , twisting the justice system to get rid of a rival. that's not insignificant in this whole process, is it? >> no. the deterioration of america's moral authority to lead the world and to try to be the shining city on the hill is

significant, and in this case, there is no doubt that this is an administration going after their chief political rival. david: matt whitaker, former attorney general, acting attorney general, matt, great to see you thank you very much for being here. >> appreciate it. david: so what does former president trump's boxes and bill clinton's sock drawer have in common? or perhape judicial watch prest tom fitton on the "evening edit" next wit that's next. ♪ just till they taste what we've got ♪ when owning a small business gets real, progressive gets you right back to living the dream. [ cheering ] a small business gets real, hey guys, detect this: living with hiv, i learned that i can stay undetectable with fewer medicines. that's why i switched to dovato. dovato is for some adults who are starting hiv-1 treatment or replacing their current hiv-1 regimen.

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david: so, many argue that special counsel jack smith's espionage case against donald trump is wrong because it's over shadowed by the presidential records act which isn't mentioned in the indictment. an article in today's "wall street journal" spells out that distinction. "the presidential records about allows the president to decide what records to return, and what records to keep at the end of

his presidency" and the national archives an records administration can't do anything about it. i know, because i'm the lawyer who lost the clinton sock drawer case. joining us now is judicial watch president tom fitton. his is great at mission. he should know because he lost the case against bill clinton for exactly this purpose. explain how bill clinton's sock drawer, what that has to do with this particular indictment against trump. >> i mean, you can ask most other lawyers. they know the cases they lose, right? and so when this issue popped up , we said why is the justice department doing the exact opposite and taking the different legal position than he took for bill clinton who had these records made, interviews that continued while he was doing business in the white house, calling foreign leaders, members of congress, his secretary of state, arguably classified that sort of material , certainly national defense information is defined by the current justice

department and they came in, they told michael who was representing judicial watch at the time, still is senior attorney here, that there's nothing we can do about it. the president has perogatives here to designate records here as personal versus presidential and no one can second guess him and in fact they told the court at a hearing that if he has records after he leaves the white house they are presumably personal, and the court affirmed that and said you know there's no second guessing the president's decision-making here, and so when this whole issue popped up in the beginning of last year, we obviously were quite taken with the idea that the archives went and harassed trump the previous year. we didn't know about that until he turned over those boxes initially in january and february of last year, and told him he had records he didn't have a right to have. well that wasn't the law, and i think it was a setup. they knew that trump had no business harassing trump, but they changed, you know, they lied to him about the law or

mislead him about the law and then of course that all lead to the boxes being turned, them finding allegedly classified information, which were really personal documents of his, that he had made personal by as the indictment says, putting them in boxes with a whole bunch of other clippings and such, right? that lead to the subpoena. david: well and the incredible thing is that there wasn't anything about the presidential records act in the indictment. at least that i read, unless i missed something, so he just totally ignored that, the special prosecutor did. i just want to play to you -- >> well that omission speaks volumes doesn't it? david: it does indeed and gets to the issue of these two tiered justice system that a lot of people complain about and i just want to play a little bit from vice president pence whose been very critical of donald trump even of his dealings with the documents. he was on with kudlow earlier. roll tape. >> after seven years of

politicization in the justice department, i find it hard to believe the politics didn't play a role here. i continue to demand that attorney general merrick garland go before the american people and answer questions about what role, if any, he played or the administration played in the decision to move an unprecedented indictment against a former president of the united states. david: quick response, tom, but again, the vice president is no fan of donald trump recently. >> oh, it's all about politics. it's election interference. i testified before the grand jury on this topic and other topics, and it was four hours of political debate. david: unbelievable. >> this is a partisan targeting of trump and i hope a court sees through it and shuts it down as soon as it can. david: tom petito, great to see you appreciate it. despite voters feeling the pinch in their wallets democrats are standing by president biden's fitness to serve another four- year term. senator rick scott on that, coming next.

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strategy as inflation and economic uncertainty weighs on voters democrats are standing by president biden's fitness to serve another four year term. hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill with the very latest. hillary great to see you. what did you find out? reporter: great to be back, david. well, it's important to point out that president biden himself is already the oldest president in u.s. history, and the reason why that's relevant is age is a big voting issue, heading into 2024, as he's hoping to be re-elected. some voters are not convinced that he should serve another term. a recent quinnipiac poll found that 65% of registered voters believe that biden is too old to serve another four years if he were re-elected in 2024. president biden has taken a few public tumbles as president, and he had to miss work on monday to get a root canal canceling his

public events postponing a meeting with the nato secretary general and vice president kamala harris had to fill in for him at an event with college athletes but despite biden's sick day in recent falls his democrats on capitol hill are brushing off his age when we tried to ask about it. >> do you think that president biden's age is finally catching up to him? >> i'm really proud of the job president biden is doing as a leader and i'll go vote now. >> he's been falling down. he had to take off work for a root canal. do you think he has the stamina for a second term? >> have you ever had a root canal? >> are you worry worried president biden's age maybe catching up to him? >> no. >> are you worried about his stamina he be able to serve a full second term? >> same answer. >> do you think that president biden's age has finally caught up to him at all? >> absolutely not. i think the president is great. look, i'm proud to be supporting him and i don't even know why you asked that question. >> do you think he has the

stamina to finish a second term? >> yes, i do and please don't bother me with such frivolity. reporter: david it's not just democrats grappling with age as a factor in 2024. former president trump, the republican front runner, would also be the oldest president in u.s. history, if he were elected in 2024 by the end of his term, he would hold that title along with biden. david: good point and just for the record i have never ever known you to be frivolous. i'm just saying maybe i don't know you as well but i stand by your lack of frivolity. thank you very much and welcome back. joining us is senator rick scott senator, great to see you. thank you for being here. well, nancy pelosi may think that's a frivolous question, but one-half of all independent voters think that it is a serious question. one-half of all independent voters according to one poll are uncomfortable with the president 's abilities to, and if they voe accordingly by the way, biden

loses. there's just no question that if he loses half of the independents, he's lost the election, right? >> absolutely. you know, as i travel florida, people telling me what they are focused on. this election is about inflation it's going to be about can they get a good job? are wages going to stay up with inflation. kids education, public safety, you know, the war in ukraine, the open border on our southern border. i think those are the issues that when people are talking to me, and everybody talks about, you know, the fact that he continues to fall and he struggles but i think what most people are worried about is how does it impact them personally and it's inflation and things will be the issue in the election. david: i think you're exactly right and this isn't 2020 when biden didn't have a record as president and now he has a record and we see what's happened with inflation and how the public is unsatisfied with the economy to put it mildly. they hate it what's happened to the economy with inflation and

the various results and the president keeps making things up to make it appear good he just came out two days ago with a report on wages. he said wages are up over the past year after accounting for inflation. well that's just not true. we had a bureau of labor stats revision of what happened in the last quarter. instead of a 4.9% rise in wages, they declined .7% and when you factor in inflation, that means a 4.7% decline in wages and americans know when they aren't making as much. >> think about it. when he got elected if he took $ 5 to buy something it takes $6 to buy it now. so with people, they see it. rents up, car prices are up. all these things that the average person buys are up and you know who it really hurts hurts the poorest families. i grew up in a poor family and watched my mom struggle with inflation so it's hurting

those people because first off they have a hard time finding the right job and second this inflation is just killing them, so i think that's what the election is going to be about. they are going to be about their own pocketbook. david: i want to switch gears to the issue of wokeness, and we had mark cuban claiming that companies like target and bud light, et cetera, are going woke is good business. he said there's a reason almost all of the top 10 market cap companies in the u.s. can be considered woke. it's good business. most ceo's have enough experience to know just to wait out the news cycle until they go to the next one. you have a background in the corporate world. what do you think? >> well, i built businesses. service business and product businesses. i focused on how was i the best at what i was doing if it was a service like a hospital business best prices, best outcomes. i mean, i didn't think about this wokeness stuff and things like that. i focused on how am i the best at what my customer cares about? and my customer cared about what

they are spending their money on , and so i don't get it. and these companies, they are not the same. they allow china to sit on, i mean, demolish human rights and they are okay with that. they come to the united states and act like they should be involved in this stuff. i don't think it makes good business sense. david: senator scott, thank you very much for being here. great to see you again. appreciate it. >> nice seeing you david. david: wish i was in florida. more on the house passing a bill to block a federal gas stove ban , but first, let's check in with our friends dagen and sean and see what they have coming up in the next hour in the bottom line. hey, gang. >> david, thank you so much we have senator dixon on the show she was a former michigan gubernatorial candidate as well as charlie hurt is going to be here. dagen: and jace and jet robertson. lord knows what the we will talk to those two gentlemen as well. we'll walk and talk as well. see if i can fall flat on my

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keep our gas stoves? >> you can. i can. look, it's amazing that the biden administration is so hostile to the middle class that they want to take their kitchen appliances away now. i mean, it's one thing after another with this crew in the white house but the bill that passed on the floor today was to prevent the department of energy from promulgating a rule that would prohibit the introduction of new gas stoves into homes. again, you can't make this stuff up. let the consumer decide. david: well, unlike you, by the way, i don't live in texas. i live in new york and new york state is now passed this no new gas stoves in the future bill, which is crazy. i mean, states will still be able to do what apparently the federal government wanted to do, right? so there's still a problem of my gas stove going away. >> yes and elections matter so i wish you guys in new york would pay more attention the next time you get the chance david: all right it begs the question is the biden administration and other progressives all over the

country state-wide and city- wide trying to socialize the country through regulations? >> well look. you can certainly believe that when you see the regulations. one of the things that made the trump administration so successful and made the economy really take off under the trajectory was not just the tax policy but it was also the regulatory or the de regulatory policy. remember for every new regulation, you've got to repeal three or whatever the incoming administration at that time said it intensely smart to do that. the american people are not suffering from being under- regulated right now. david: well, and by the way, they are trying to big foot some of the states and localities when it comes to what they want. chinese ev factory battery factory in michigan, even though the locals don't want it, the biden administration is going ahead with it, right? >> yeah. again, they seem to be insensitive to the requests of

their constituents, the middle class. pay attention to what they are telling you, because it shouldn't be happening in michigan if they don't want it there. david: absolutely. well, finally the degree to which these woke visions of the world kind of trip over each other, california reservoirs were almost empty, and they blame climate change for the problem of not enough water. now, they are overflowing. a couple of big reservoirs have over 100% of what is necessary because of the rains which they blamed on climate change, so which is it? >> well, you know, you just can't win with that darn climba look, it's basically what we're talking about is weather and it is unpredictable. one of the reasons that you build reservoirer vorticities is so you will have water when you need it for people to do what they do and you know, in texas we've been pretty successful with building and managing reservoirs. i don't think you can say the

same about california, but they ought to get a clue from what they've been through. a terrible drought and now an over-abundance of water had you an ability to capture the water the next drought wouldn't be so bad. david: congressman burgess great to talk to you again. you have birthed 3,000 babies as an og/gyn before you got to congress. talk about two meaningful careers. >> thank you, very fortunate. david: lawmakers sounding the alarm on capitol hill as the house homeland security committee launched an investigation into dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas alleged dereliction of duty. we have the details next on the "evening edit". >> secretary mayorkas are you proud of the job that you have done at the border? republicans say you're handling of the border has been a dereliction of duty. do you agree with that? do you feel like president biden has given you the resources that you need to do an effective job and secure the border?

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fireworks on capitol hill today as a house home and security launched an investigation into alejandro mayorkas alleged dereliction of duty. joining us from house, security congressman tony gonzales. great to see you. it was really dramatic

particularly when you heard the former border patrol chief, rodney scott talk about what happens when mayorkas came in and i'm going to quote him, our input was no longer solicited and will make teens give it unsolicited advice, we were put in a box. they didn't want to know what we had to say. that's extraordinary. >> thank you for having me. the history of our country there's only been one department secretary that's been impeached. you're going to see house republicans will hold secretary mayorkas accountable and today's hearing was the first of many as we go down this route. a district like mine i represent 800 miles of the southern border, what i'm hearing from my constituents is they are fed up in particular ranchers and farmers are fed up with damage to properties in another hearing i sit on house appropriations committee, we passed the ag subcommittee portion today out of the committee that gave relief in that bill, a relief

for farmers and ranchers to get reimbursed for damages to the property so people need real tangible results as well as holding the dh as secretary accountable. >> he lied under oath about the border being closed when it obviously isn't, there's the issue about attacking border patrol agents accusing them of whipping when he knew it wasn't true and did it in public to please his boss, the president. what else you have that is indictable that could be used in an impeachment? >> i think the hearings will prove useful. one thing i am seeing as we build out a case, one thing is the administration is changing attunement and is almost as if there's are 2024 election happening and all of a sudden biden wants to be not seen as this open border but what i worry is if he gets reelected again, it's rinse and repeat. in my district yesterday there

was 800 apprehensions in the dell real sector, today 1000. about 3000 are happen daily. what does that mean? 1 million people coming over illegally a year, that's what better border looks like. >> the migrants themselves, we had 1000 migrant deaths and people try to come, i think you shot this, a facility supposed to hold 120 people, it's holding 750 men right there. >> we have to hit them with the truth and the video i filmed there in the processing center, you can't look away, you can't say it's an orderly process. >> tony gonzales, thank you for being here, appreciate the work you are doing. i'm david asman and for elizabeth macdonald, thank you for watching "the evening edit" on foxbusiness and now it's time for the bottom line, i was just on their show last night and here i am tossing it t