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out here. larry, you're terrific. thank you so much is. it's good to see you, my friend. okay, the push is on gop senators demand a special counsel to investigate bribery charges swirling around president biden, hunter biden and if the bribery exists, where did it go? we are killing into the biden documents, finding a multimillion dollar discrepancy. so why won't the president release his tax returns for his shell companies? if they forced the release of trump's tax, why not all of biden's? we have "fox news sunday" host stan bream bream, steve moore, chris swecker, economist david bahnsen, carol roth, "wall street journal"'s bill mcgurn, phil wegmann and columnist joe concha. president biden's gaffes are getting worse. nancy pelosi desperately trying to squash that, but polls show even democrat voters don't want biden to run again. plus, house gop still plans to

censor congressman adam schiff after of the first push failed. and the mounting pushback nationwide against using your retirement savings for climate change and social justice and the growing number of biden cabinet members who face investigation. i'm liz macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: thanks for joining us tonight. now, the word impeachment increasingly heard around capitol hill. house gop members have their sights set on president biden. but others are being drawn into the bull's eye. fox news' aishah hasnie live on capitol hill with the story. >> reporter: good evening to you. there is about at least six names being floated on capitol hill right now by house republicans as they hook to punish -- look to punish somebody for what they call the biden administration's failed policies. they just quite haven't landed on a particular name yet.

but it is being closely watched right now. the most obvious target appears to be dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas. several house ore palins have already come forward and filed articles of impeachmentment against him, and homeland security republicans this week launched a major investigation. this is a big sign here, elizabeth, because the result of this investigation will be sent over to the judiciary committee which would then decide whether or not to um e peach. now, representative lauren boeberts has also filed articles of impeachment, but this time against president biden in order to pressure leadership to take action on the border k. and representative andy ogles is also joining her, going after biden and vp harris not for the border, this time for -- he's accusing the president of using the office of the presidency the shield his family's business activities. representative marjorie taylor greene is another one here, she's casting an even wider net.

she thinks hat fbi director, christopher wray, the attorney general, merrick garland, as well as u.s. attorney matthew graves should also be impeached here. democrats think republicans don't have a case here, they just have impeachment fever. >> we need stronger border security, we need comprehensive immigration reform. these calls for impeachment are a demagoguic effort the distract from those real policy issues. >> reporter: now, it'll be interesting to watch what senate republicans think. they're kind of split on this whole matter because any impeachment would almost most certainly chi in a democrat-controlled -- die in a democrat-controlled senate. >> i think that one of the advantages of doing impeachment is that you get to have an investigation -- >> i'd be very cautious about that. there's not the votes in the senate to remove president biden unless something new happens. >> reporter: and, elizabeth, if we cosee an impeachment move

forward for alejandro major das, it often would not happen until after the august recess. elizabeth: thanks for the great reporting. back with us now, attorney chris swecker, author bill mcgurn. let's first watch president biden today again attack a reporter this time asking about an fbi informant referring to bind as, quote, big guy in the biden bribery allegations at the tbi. watch this. -- fbi. [inaudible conversations] >> why do you ask such a dumb question? elizabeth: bill mcgurn, voters deserve to know. he works for the taxpayers. when he bullies reporters, there's often an uncomfortable truth to the question, bill mcgurn. >> with yeah. i mean, look, what else is he going to to say? i think people do deserve the answer. what we need to know now, this

there's credible charges by an informant at the fbi who went into details about what he says are describes -- bribes for president biden and hunter biden. we need to know the fbi investigated. we know from bill barr that he sent the stuff over. and we know there's a u.s. attorney that's been working on this for at least, i believe, three years, maybe longer. and so we need to know what they looked at. i don't know whether it's true or not, but i know the information that is in that 1023 that was just a fight between the fbi and congress had very detailed things that you could presumably prove or disprove. and we want to know what the fbi who says we didn't make it public, we redacted this because it's life and death, whether

they were really protecting the this plant or themselves. elizabeth: yeah, that's the point. >> finally, it's up to david weiss to say what he's found, either charge or not charge. or the he thinks that the investigate has been thwarted, to resign and say so. elizabeth: got it. >> i can't do my job because of the political pressures. if. elizabeth: chris, what bill just said. what do you make of gop senators led by marsha blackburn, j.d. advance and mike braun sending -- j. j.d. vance is, what do you make of it? >> yeah, i'm not a big fan of special counsels. that's buying into two more years of investigation. let's get the justice department out of investigating. that's what i'd like to do, because the tbi has that mandat. ask is we've seen time and time again where the justice department and fbi headquarters have been running investigations. these investigations will move if you give them back to the

field offices. all you have to do is look at the interview of the head of the washington field office about the trump, the document raids at mar-a-lago. he was totally against it, and he couldn't figure out why florida field office, the miami field office wasn't running the investigation. he had a lot to say about it, ask people a ought to read what he had to say because he was heading up the entire washington field office, and he would know. elizabeth: you know, the issue with this too is that the fbi reportedly knew about these allegations since at least 2017. we have senator chubb grassley from the senate -- chuck grassley from the senate floor saying an executive of burisma kept 17 audio recordings of phone calls with joe and hunter biden as, quote, an insurance policy, how he allegedly gave and hunter biden $10 million the in bribes. it should be pointed out burisma paid hunter biden about a million dollars a year to sit on its board.

watch this. >> there are 17 voice recordings, 2 of those with the now-president. you chose to redact that and not to give that to house oversight. >> what i will tell you with respect to the -- >> you have no -- >> the document was redacted to protect the source. >> so, okay, so now we've confirmed that the document exists. that's progress, because the fbi director initially denied that it exists. why did he do that? >> we have already and previously acknowledged the existence of the documents. >> yeah, after you first denied it. how about a yes or no, will you commit to releasing this unclassified document that alleges that the president of the united states, the president of the united states has taken $5 million or more in bribes from a foreign nation? >> the document has already been released pursuant to a subpoena that house oversight committee -- >> that that's problem. the fbi has right now an unlimited hubris that a you believe you are unaccountable. but you're sitting there happily

recollecting a wall to -- erecting a wall to recollect joe biden. elizabeth: senator ted cruz, bill mcgurn, said president biden could clear this all up and call for everything to be leased publicly, but many don't think he will. >> no, he's not going to. look, before we get to whether joe biden took this or whether it's, you know, real or not, we have to learn whether the fbi actually investigated it. i couldn't agree more with my friend. if they'd handed this off to a field office, they would have been done. a long time ago. and we don't know, and deputy director abate's response, i mean, it looks like the fbi is covering for itself, not protecting -- elizabeth: yes. to what bill -- >> and they have no credibility now. the durham report pointed out how bad they were in crossfire hurricane. there's no credibility. and they don't seem to care.

elizabeth: right. you know, what bill just said. you know, here's thing, when you look at it, chris, you look at the whole issue, it was the same problem with the mueller report, it was the same problem with crossfire hurricane. centralizing it in a politicized d.c. office, right? where officials beat a path back and forth to the white house. former fbi officials told us that. it should be farmed out to the field offices to investigate it. is it -- behind scenes do fbi officials get some kind of training on how to testify the, on how to stonewall? [laughter] >> no. when i was assistant director, i was up there all the time. i mean, that's an individual thing. he had -- first of all, paul has no mandate, he has no authority from the director to disclose the informant. however, that goes back to headquarters and their congressional affairs office. they can talk, they can give you as much information as possible about the follow-up investigation. that's what we're really interested in. we don't care about who the

source is. we want to talk to the businessman there ukraine. we want to see the tapes. we want to see what kind of follow-up investigation took place here. did they scorch the earth in the same way they did e when they went after donald trump and people to the right of the political spectrum. elizabeth: they cannot bury this. it had been out there forever that they buried it. and it looks really bad to bury it, because it looks like they are guilty when they don't want it released, when they don't want information released. the american taxpayer will think just tell us what happens. that's it. chris swecker, bill mcgurn, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: let's welcome back to economic adviser steve moore and author of "you own nothing," it's carol roth. okay, lets -- let's get to it. of stephen moore, democrats forced the release of president

trump's tax returns, why doesn't president biden? he used shell companies on his taxes to bury more than $15 million in 2017 and to 2018. he used shell companies to sluice through at least $5 million, we found, that came out of, you know, ukraine. and more. that's what we're finding. no one knows exactly where the money came from in the shell companies, the s corps that the bidens used to report their income on their income tax return. no one knows the details, steve. >> so you used keyword there, liz, double standard. and that's exactly what this is. look, i was, as a person who had worked for trump, and i think he did a great job as president when he was handling the economy, this idea that the fbi -- that the irs effectively illegally released his tax returns without his consent was an outrageous abuse of power. and i'm still angry about it,

and i know the president is. look, i don't believe unless congress changes the law that any presidential candidate should be forced to release their tax returns. but there is a hypocrisy factor here that joe biden was leading the charge trying to get trump to release his tax returns, and meanwhile, he won't do it himself. elizabeth: yeah. >> that that's an extraordinarily hypocritical measure. elizabeth: we looked at the tax returns and the financial disclosures, carol. joe biden earned about twice as much in 2017 as in the prior 19 years combined. again, it's unclear how much of this is from his book deals and speeches. we don't know. the s corp., the shell companies he used in his income tax returns, the line items are not broken out to see what money could have come in from their overseas business deals cashing in on his government job. tax note's lee shepard, revered on capitol hill, her knowledge of the tax code is for real, and

and a top accountant found in 2020 biden had reported $5.5 million more this income on his tax returns than what he had reported on his government ethics disclosures, carol. st the also murky because of use of shell companies to burying the -- bury the cash flow. >> i heard some guy got a bunch of funding for the irs, like 80,000 new agents -- [laughter] so maybe we could use those new agents to do a little bit of digging and maybe do an audit here and figure out what's going on. because i agree with steve, we don't want to have the standard that this everybody has to release their taxes. there's not a lot you can figure out there. but this is a different situation. this is a situation where members of the biden family have gotten payments, nobody's really sure what they've -- where they've come from. certainly what you pointed out in termses of biden directly, some numbers that may not add up between disclosure forms and tax

returns. is so it's a different situation that does warrant some level of investigation and clarity. and i think that, you know, that is what the american public wants. they want to have that understanding of clarity and making sure that there isn't any wrongdoing because it's not just one thing that's popped up here, it really is a number of things that have popped up in a row. elizabeth: yeah. it's a bunch of things, steve. what carol just said. it's bribery allegations, right? it's an audiotape of hunter biden -- or text messages saying i pay for half of my father's expenses. that's true, then he's in constructive receipt of income and should be reporting it on his tax returns. that that's what happened with the clintons and madison guaranty. so can he get by with yelling at reporters, bullying reporters, trying to shut down reporters asking legitimate questions about what is going on here? can he live really in the united states letting all of this hang over his head with no questions asked from my -- hang over his head?

>> i would say this, i don't know what happened, i don't know in this $5 million payment was made or not. but if you're joe biden, wouldn't you want to kiss close the information -- [laughter] concern disclose the information, wouldn't you want to exonerate yourself? you saul called these shell corporations. it looks to me like money laundering so that nobody can follow the trail of the money. and again, i don't know the fact. i don't think anybody really knows the tacts right now. but joe biden should want to come clean here. elizabeth: look, he got reportedly an $8 million book deal, carol, right? for his memoir in -- [laughter] we don't though if all that hundred came in that year. and then he, "the washington post" said he was getting, he did, like, 20 the speeches where he got 150k, 200k, that may be his $4 million. carol, final word. >> where do i sign up for this $8 million book deal? [laughter] i did not get that kind of advance. and i have heard biden speak.

if he was charging six figures for that, everybody in that room deserves a refund. [laughter] elizabeth: thank you so much. more gaffes from president biden. d.c. reportedly debating, you know, he can't run again. even democrat voters say that. nancy pelosi's push to squash all of that down. plus "fox news sunday" anchor shannon bream, anna paulina luna planning to reintroduce her legislation to cent sure adam -- censure adam smith. coming up on "the evening ed difficult mt.s muck -- edit. ♪ ♪ it's easy to get lost in investment research. introducing j.p. morgan personal advisors. hey david. connect with an advisor to create your personalized plan. let's find the right investments for your goals okay, great. j.p. morgan wealth management.

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true pricing will roll out this year. >> this is a win for consumers, in my view, and proof that that our crackdown on junk fees has real momentum. but there's more to do to address the problem of online incompetent thing -- tickets, excuse me, to address the problems in online ticketing industry. >> reporter: is he's not talking about lowering prices, just being more transparent about the total costs. >> i think that while the administration if while consumers would love to pay lower fees, i'm a little skeptical of that. i think these are kind of like whack-a-mole. i think if one goes down, then another one goes up. but i think at least transparency would give people the opportunity to though what they're getting into and comparison shop is. >> reporter: so we're hearing less from the president about inflation although it's still double the fed's target. thed fed chairman worried about core inflation. that number's basically moving sideways. >> we don't think we're there with inflation yet because we're just looking at the data.

and to you look at the, at the full range of inflation data, particularly the core data, you just aren't seeing a lot of progress over the last year. headline, of course, inflation has come down material arely. but as you know, we look at core as a better indicator of where inflation overall is going. >> reporter: so, liz, a win today for transparency, not for inflation. elizabeth: gee, i really want to know how i'm getting really walloped, right, and can't do anything about it. >> reporter: giving you choices. elizabeth: this is is so frustrating, this white house. the big problem is inflation, period. 26 straight months, wages down because inflation is to have of. offing through. i mean, that's the story. not junk fees, right, edward? thank you so much. good to see you. let's welcome to the show "fox news sunday" anchor shannon bream. i mean, really? junk fees? we've got former speaker pelosi, shannon, she's not answering hillary vaughn's questions about whether the president's age is a concern. and then we want your reaction to president biden making brand

new blunders and gaffes. watch this. >> we have plans to build a railroad from the pacific all the way across the indian ocean. we have plans to build in angola, one of the largest solar plants in the world. i can go on but i'm not, i'm going off script, i'm going to get this trouble. we've mobilized the world's leading emitters to help poor countries deal with the impacts of climate change. they called it at the g7 the build back biden. we, the major emitters in the world, have an obligation to help those countries. >> reporter: do you think president biden's age has finally caught up to him at all? >> absolutely not. i think president is great. look, i'm proud to be supporting him, and i don't even know why you asked that question. >> reporter: do you think he has the stamina to finish a second term -- >> yes, i do, and please don't bother me with such frivolity, okay? >> i think it's conceivable when you have an 80-year-old president who tends to mumble and meander and the economy's

not great. you never know what's going to happen, biden could get beaten by trump. elizabeth: shannon, the polls, quinnipiac, we're looking at economist, u governor and her, they don't -- u-gov, they don't think it's frivolity. a lot of voters, including democrats, say you shouldn't vote again. >> yeah. and independents expressed their concerns about exactly how well equipped he is. of course the former speaker, nancy close city, is going to say age is not an issue because she's in that same club as is much of capitol hill, honestly, on the senate ask house side. they don't like these questions about age. interestingly though, in poll results where a number of people a vast majority will say they have concerns about president biden continuing on, when they were asked about former president trump who's only 4 years younger, would be in his 80s if he was reelected and finished out that term, a much smaller percentage are worried about his physical and mental fitness to carry forward with his duties. maybest just not an issue of

age,s but it is this president in particular. i'm not great at geography. trivial pursuit, it's one of my weaker categories, but even i would think a railroad across the indian ocean would be quite something. elizabeth: 9,000 miles? that doesn't concern nancy pelosi. your point's well taken. you say 10,000 words a day, you're going to make a mistake if. but critics say this is cognitive stuff this realtime. and by the way, china's emission s exceed all nations combined. >> and that's another worry. if this president is going to try to play hardball with xi like them, buzzing one of our reconnaissance jet, getting into it with warships in taiwan and in that area, they want somebody who's going to be very tough and be able to have these difficult conversations, and so there are questions that, again, it's not just people on the right, it is people there within with his own party. you hear this muttering and this concern about the tact that they wonder if he's up to the job mentally and physically.

he had that fall a couple weeks ago at the commencement ceremony. we're told he's doing great. i have tripped myself on stage, but we do expect the leader of the free world, our commander in chief, to be held to a higher standard because it's the most demanding job in the world. i can't imagine why people want to do it, but he's doing it, and he's running to do it again. elizabeth: well, we never want you to leave your job. we love having you. come back soon, shannon. gate to see you. great writer, wrote a great book about women and the bible. catch shannon sundays at 2 p.m. eastern time anchoring "fox news sunday.." okay, elon musk slams woke s&p. they gave an esg rating, a beggar one, a better one -- bigger one, a better one for philip morris which makes cigarettes than electric carmaker tesla. and real clear politics reporter phil wegman, house gop lawmaker

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president trump last week. but in the end, this entire episode sort of fizzled into an in-kind contribution for representative adam schiff. the vote failed. democrats rallied to him, ask rather than focusing on the substance of what allegedly the congressman did during the trump-russia investigations, you have 20 house republicans who are sort of castigating their populist colleague from florida saying this is unconstitutional to try and levy this fine against him. and these are some stalwart conservatives like representative thomas massie of kentucky, representative warren with davidson of ohio who are saying, wait a minute, this is not a road we want to go down. elizabeth: congressman luna says she will remove the $16 million fine. that, by the way, she says is half the cost of the mueller probe. because i think congressman massie is saying if democrats take back control of the house, you don't want them levying fines against, you know, republican, right? >> and he's someone who has been fined by former house speaker

nancy pelosi for not wearing a mask during covid. this is something he has appearance with. and i think that that gets to his hesitancy here. but the larger question in this episode and then also i think this republican politics generally is do remins want something that's going to have substance or just showmanship. certainlyinging speaker mccarthy, he had a substantive move when he kicked schiff off of the committee. this censure, perhaps it was more about getting revenge. and so i think -- getting revenge. think we're going to learn more about what republicans actually want to do, do they just want to signal or make real reforms? elizabeth: let's watch congressman schiff in action repeatedly falsely claiming there was we've of trump-russia collusion. watch this. >> this is about as clear evidence you could find of intent by the campaign to collude with the russians. russians offer help, the campaign accepted help. the russians gave help, and the president made full uses of that help.

there's clear evidence on the issue of collusion. there is ample ed of collusion. ed of collusion. elizabeth: here's the problem with this whole thing, the initial charge was that trump was working with russia to hack dnc and hillary clinton campaign e-mails. then it transmogrified, morphed into this ambiguous to thing that russia was helping out the trump campaign, whatever. special counsel mueller's team determined that russia, yeah, helped out the trump campaign. trump campaign welcomed it. they said they did the not find that the trump campaign conspired to sway the election, period. the justice department did not recommend any charges, period. so why can't democrats wrap their mind around that? >> well, adam schiff was really good for a quote for a new york times piece. but as you mentioned, both mueller and durham found that the collusion narrative actually didn't hold up. i think that those quotes from the representative that you just put on a loop there, that's the sort of thing that's going to be driving a lot of republicans who

are auditioning to be the republican nominee to press for real reforms to doj and fbi so that that, you know, these political talking points don't actually turn into -- elizabeth: into gaslighting. political talking points don't gaslight america. phil egg nan -- phil wegmann, it's good to see to you. the growing number of biden cabinet memberses who face investigation. also chi ifist david bahnsen, a mounting pushback nationwide against using your with retirement savings for things like climate e change ask social justice, and you don't even know about what's going on. that's coming up on "the evening edit." ♪ ♪ what do we always say, son? liberty mutual customizes your car insurance... so you only pay for what you need. that's my boy. now you get out there, and you make us proud, huh? ♪ bye, uncle limu. ♪

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justice investing. the biden white house wants them to do that. more states are saying, no. madison alworth in new york city with the story. madison. >> reporter: good afternoon, liz. so investor support for environmental and social shareholder proposals or esg proposals, it has hit its lowest level in six years. not just retirement savings, but just what we're seeing at a company level. at annual shareholder meetings, the backing for resolutions focused on things like climate change, workers' rights, diversesty and corporate governance, that declined roughly 22% approval down from the peak of 33% backing in 2021. now, this follows moves from lawmakers to restrict esg investments of public funds on the state level, you're looking at states that have all restricted the use of e e sg factors when it comes to state funds. west virginia was the first state to move in this direction, and their state treasurer tells us the state has not suffered from pulling funds are there esg-focused investing firms including blackrock. >> in terms of the divestment

that we've done in the treasury, we have not taken i any losses what that so far. it's the beauty of the free market, there's a lot of options out there. and, look, ooh i'm not here to regulate the market. i'm a state treasurer, i'm a market participant. and all we're doing is stating our preferences in the marketplace. >> reporter: on capitol hill house judiciary chairman jim jordan has subpoenaed ceo mindy luber claiming the organization appears to, quote, facilitate collusion through climate action 100. jordan has compared the organization to a cartel that pressures businesses to take action on climate change. lawmakers had previously sent ledders demand -- letters demanding the organization hand over documents. when they didn't meet the deadline, jordan issued that subpoena yesterday. as he said on this show, the move is part of a broader investigation to look at how agencies could be used against the american people and what goes into all of these decisions. elizabeth: that was such an

interesting story and reporting. great journalism there, madison. really interesting stuff. thanks for joining us. look who's back, the author of "there's no free lunch," david bahnsen. david, what did you make of madison's story? now you see this fight, we've got elon musk really mad, s&p global gave his electric car company, tesla, a lower environmental social governance score than philip morris, the maker of marlboro cigarettes. what do you make of that? >> yeah. there's been so many stories like this for years since this esg thing took off as a big marketing scam on wall street. that's what it was, a way to raise money by getting higher fees to tell people that they're doing something virtues, and -- virtuous, and it doesn't cost them anything. and they raised trillions of dollars. and yet you have stories like that, philip morris having a higher score than tesla, but i've always thought my favorite one is facebook become the number one weighting in the

blackrock esg portfolio and the g in esg stands for governance. mark zuckerberg gets is 100 votes for every 1 vote regular shareholders get, and that's the standard of governance? elizabeth: you know, facebook has allowed criminals on its site. i remember in u.k., teresa may -- theresa may was upset about social media allowing terrorists to signal each other on social media, including facebook, so that's really great gore nance over atbook? this looks like it violates erisa. they have a fiduciary obligation to get the best returns for shareholders, period, not manipulate it for whatever their agenda is. >> well, that's certainly correct. and in spirit, we know that. a fiduciary duty means you're there to get the best returns. what they do legally to play gymnastics with all this so to the say, oh, long term these

environmental things are going to hurt returns, and so welcome justify it now. i have no problem with them having esg funds and investors that say they don't want oil and gas, don't invest in oil and gas. if you and i don't don't to invest in facebook or another tech company or a social justice cause, we don't have to. i'm not asking them to stop those companies from existing. see, that's the difference. i want a free and open market where people can make the best decisions possible. it's the other side that is trying to limit choice in the marketplace. elizabeth: that's right, in a top-down way. and given how to top-down crazy it is the in d.c. and how top-down crazy it is with their idea of what's right and wrong in congress, watch this fight break out between democrat new york congressman representative madder the, jerry nadler, he's trying to claim not forcing 2-year-olds to wear masks is, quote, child abuse. you're going to see congressman chip roy go after him on that. watch. >> when we have a pandemic like

can covid-19 pandemic that we had, 2-year-olds should have been required to wear masks. it would be child abuse for parents not to do that. >> your 2-year-old should be forced to be masked. has what the ranking member of the house judiciary committee just said here on floor of the house of representatives, that the power of the government, the full power of the federal government should be a part of insuring and forcing your children, your 2-year-old child to be masked. >> your rule would require a bank to ask the question of a small business person what's your race, what's your earth misty, what's your sexual preference? are you gay? are you a woman? and all of this data is going to go to your agency. and we don't have the slightest idea how you're going to use it except you say you're going to publish it. elizabeth: that's senator kennedy grilling an official from the consumer financial

protection bureau. what do you make of everything thaw yourself -- you just heard? >> i heard a lot of things, and i'm a little blown away. i was hoping to never have to talk about or even think about that embarrassing period in our nation's history when we were masking babies where there was a 0 #.0% mortality and infection rate and so forth. we know it's not just babies, 2-year-olds, it's the almost like nadler was trying to get people to make fun of them. even kids k-12th grade, the risks were just absolutely minuscule. elizabeth: got it. >> so this mandatory masking thing was absurd. and i assume the connection there to wanting all this data is that they're talking about the statism and an unaccountable bureau like the consumer financial protection having more access to information they can use in the these other kind of dangerous ways. elizabeth: david bahnsen -- >> as as a classical liberal, i'm against it. i think it's dangerous.

elizabeth elizabeth got it. thank you, david. issues piling up for president biden ahead of the 2024 election. we've got a growing number of cabinet members facing investigations, but first let's check in with dagen and sean to see what they've got coming up on "the bottom line." sean: congresswoman anna paulina line that and the great steve hilton is going to join us. dagen: jimmy failla on one tattoo artist who hates conservatives who go to church who might if need people praying for 'em. more on that. ♪ ♪ ...everyday products... ...designed smarter. like a smart coffee grinder - that orders fresh beans for you. oh, genius! for more breakthroughs like that... ...i need a breakthrough card... like ours! with 2.5% cash back on purchases of $5,000 or more... plus unlimited 2% cash back on all other purchases! and with greater spending potential, sam can keep making smart ideas... ...a brilliant reality! the ink business premier card from chase for business.

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owned previously undisclosed stock in ford motor. that is a key player in the biden white house's green energy efforts. let's bring in columnist and author joe concha. joe, what do you make of all of in this? >> that is an impeachable offense, elizabeth, let's face this. i mean, she lied under oath, and that's jennifer granholm that we're talking about here. of as you said, in april, now it's revealed in may, that wasn't the case that she did actually own these holdings. so my question as it is always in these situations is where is the media? where's abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, "the washington post," new york times? i can guarantee you if this was the energy secretary under donald trump and they had perjured themselves, this would be a lead story. but because of what we saw in miami this week with the federal charges against the former president in trump, that takes up all the oxygen in the room, and we're not talking about this obvious serious situation, jennifer granholm either needs

to resign or she needs to be impeached. either way, needs to be gone. elizabeth: republicans on house natural resources investigating interior secretary deb hay land, her relationship with her daughter's green group. we want your reaction to a government watchdog group filing a federal lawsuit against the faa saying the f ark a is stonewalling releasing records about transportation secretary pete buttigieg flying around in private government faa jets around the nation. what do you make of this one? >> not just once or twice, it was -- we're talking about pete buttigieg doing this on multiple occasions which is so ironic because he's supposed to be the green czar, the climate change guy who's going to help change the world, and yet he's flying private all over the world. again, we have these conflicts of interest, no media interest whatsoever as far as coverage of this sort of stuff. and probably we're the only people talking about this right now instead of the watchdogs in

the media that should be covering this. pete buttigieg had no business being transportation secretary in the first place because he couldn't fix a pothole in south bend, indiana, and jen or the granholm, i think she was governor of michigan and then she was a girl on cnn that said bad stuff about -- elizabeth: okay, a woman, not just a girl. [laughter] got it. joe concha, it's good to see you. you'll come back. much more copping -- coming up next on "the evening edit."

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liz: issues are piling up atpree 202024 recent attacking boaters and help of the democratic voters say that he is too old to run again and those concerns are not frivolous as nancy pelosi is trying to claim and plus senators are calling for a special counsel into the biden family overseas deals, and congressional investigations iny allegations, and this, rfk jr., what you coming he's getting favorites with the market people, that is with the posters join us tomorrow night and see forbes and we have former ferc pfister masonic and chris - will be joining us and think you for watching the evening edit in the desert for us and it is time for the "the bottom line" with my friends dagen mcdowell and sean duffy they have great show for you tonight. >> is good to see you guys. >> it is good to see you list.