larry: help, help, help. hunter biden getting off easy, a appeasing china, no supply side in the house republicans. i'm losing my mind so we're going to the turn to brian brenberg, he's in for liz macdonald. he hi, brian. i hope you have a better time tonight. [laughter] brian: i want to though, larry,

did you and art make up any new phasesesome. larry: they forgot supply side. brian: that's a mortal sin in the world of kudlow. i'm brian brenberg in for elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. right to our top story, new reaction to president biden's son hunter biden's shocking plea deal with the department of justice after a 5-year investigation. hunter has agreed to plead guilty to the federal tax crimes and enter into a probation with agreement on a charge of illegally owning a gun while being a drug use or. grady trimble is live in washington with more. >> reporter: hey, brian. news of hunter biden's plea deal broke while president biden is many california for some meetings and campaign events. we just got reaction from the president on the deal. listen. [inaudible conversations] >> i'm very proud of my son. >> reporter: okay, so he didn't have much to say. president biden though has insisted over and over including

as recently as last month that his son has done nothing wrong. but odd to hunter biden is admitting to wrong doing on two misdemeanor charges and one felony. the misdemeanors failing to pay more than $100,000 in taxes this both 2017 and 2018. he has since paid those taxes. the felony, illegally owning a gun while he was using drugs. this deal will likely keep him out of jail. if while the president and democratic members of congress are largely staying quiet or not saying much about deal,ing republicans, on the other hand, have a hot to the say. they argue it highlights what they consider to be a two-tiered justice system. the justice department says the investigation is ongoing, and republicans on the house oversight committee say they plan to refer more charges to the doj. >> this is just a slap on the wrist. this is a sweet deal for hunter biden on a nothing-burger tax

charge and federal gun charges when, in fact, we have seen evidence of racketeering,' -- rico, bribery, prostitution rings, now name it. >> reporter: and in related news, we also know that just in the last hour or so the chair of the house oversight committee, james comer, had a chance to go into a scif where they view classify documents many congress, and he took a look at some fbi documents related to bribery allegations against the biden family. brian? brian: grady trimble, thank you for that report, sir. all right, for more, let's bring in congressman russell fry and new york post columnist jon levine. welcome to you both. congressman, i'll start with you. critics are calling this deal a slap on the wrist, a sweetheart deal. but to the me, it looks like hiding the ball a little bit, and it's not getting to the question of, hey, where did all that money come from in the first place? your thoughts? >> i think you're exactly right.

you look at the million and a half dollars that was received that he didn't pay taxes on, and the fundamental question remains is, where did it come from? what did you -- what services did you perform to do that? there's a lot of questions that the oversight committee has exposed that the american people demand answers to. on the sources of these incomes and what you actually did while you were on the board of burisma. this, to me, seems like a sweetheart deal. there's a rapper that got three years in prison for the same crime. in the words of our president, come on, man. brian: yeah, let's talk about the words of our president, jon. president biden has been an adamant defender of his son is, even insisting he did nothing wrong. watch. >> first of all, my son's done nothing wrong. i trust him, i have faith in him, and it impacts by presidency by making me feel proud of him.

>> reporter: mr. vice president, your son hunter -- >> great guy. >> [inaudible] >> reporter: did hunter biden commit a crime? have you spoken to your son, mr? >> i'm proud of my son. brian: statement from the white house today said, quote, president and first lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. jon, to do these statements get the president into any kind of hot water if not legally, at least politically given what hunter's admitted today? >> i mean, hunter is certainly off the hook today, but what republicans have gained is a major, major talking point for the 2024 presidential election. and i think we've seen joe biden say over and over again my son is a good man, my son is not a criminal, i have no involvement in my son's overseas business deals, and that's all been blown up. now his son is a convicted criminal, and we know that he was involved in the overseas bids dealings through evidence on the laptop. so i think going forward this

will be a major, major political issue in the presidential campaign. i expect all the are republican candidates to talk about it. and joe biden's going to have to answer for the real character issues that arise by the fact that he has been disingenuous with the american people on this issue for many, many years. brian: congressman, i want to bring up something that i think is sort of fascinating. i don't know what it means yet, but there's conflicting statements from hunter's attorney and u.s. stone david weiss. hunter's attorney said it's my understanding that the 5-year investigation into hunter is resolved. weiss' statement said, quote: the investigation is ongoing. now, i could see it, congressman, either way. there's the possibility that all of the other things that are being investigated related to bribery could be shut down if the investigation is over or if it's ongoing. what do you make of that discrepancy? >> no, i it's a big concern. politico reported earlier today that it was basically a global settlement or resolution of all

potential charges in the future. i mean, my question to the prosecutor is did you even open the lap? did you even see -- laptop? did you even see a what the oversight committee has poured out for the american people to look at? if this is a global settlement, that's a big problem for the administration of justice in this country because there's a lot more there. in this committee's going to continue to fight, we're going to continue to uncover every stone and let the facts dictate this. but if this is a global settlement in, arguably, one with of the biggest ringleaders of this entire ordeal, that's a problem. when we talk about two tiers of justice, this is exactly what we're referring to. brian: jon, the liberal media seems to be in overdrive defending hunter and the biden family. watch. >> now we're seeing hunter biden take responsibility and plead guilty. now heart attacks that's not going to stop republicans, i venture to guest. i suspect we will have lots of howling from the gop. they'll ignore the facts as they

have throughout this process. certainly, this is a day of closure for the president's family. >> trump republicans have been trying to stir up conspiracy theories left and right, one after another have been disproven. they don't like the facts, they love conspiracy theories. well, this is another one that's going to play out for them. >> house ore palins have decided to go all in on this as a way to keep the republican base enthusiastic. brian: jon, it sounds to to me like what they're saying is this issue should be put to bed and anything that comes after is pure conspiracy theory. quickly, your reaction to this. >> right. no, this is nothing new from the mainstream press. the republicans are pouncing once again. look, the facts are what they are, and the congressman mentioned kodak black, charged with the exact same crime and sentenced to, i think, 46 months in prison, is and hunter's going to get a pretrial intervention which, by the way, he got a pretrial intervention in 1988 when he had controlled substances charges, he was let off the hook back then.

the whole biden family, there have been arrest for caroline biden, ashley biden, different members of the family, and no one's ever served a day in jail. the fact of the matter is it's a real pattern here. brian: yeah. it's just hard to deny that sense that there's two tiers of something going on, and hunter biden's in the better of those two tiers. congressman and jon, thanks for being with us. brian: let's turn to this, the "wall street journal" reporting beijing plans a new training facility this cuba raising prospects of chinese troops on america's doorstep. let's welcome to the show congresswoman ashley hinson. congresswoman, this sounds like a massive problem, to me. do you view it that way, number one. and, number two, is there anything that we can do at this point to stop it? >> well, clearly china has been emboldened by the reactions that we've had as a country in terms of our foreign policy. but the way i see it president

biden's appeasement tour continues. if -- we are showing them weakness, we need to show them strength, and that's exactly my take on it is, we've allowed them to do this. we've had no wins when secretary blinken went over to china and met with president xi, he left without any accountability for them sailing one of their warships in the path of one of our ships and no no accountability for even talking about seat belting up a spy operation 90 miles from our shores. so that's what this comes down to. we need to be exhibiting strength. that's what bullies respond to, and that's what i would expect the administration to do and call on them to do going forward. brian: let's talk about the balloon. former president trump on "special proreport" last night saying how the chinese spy balloon in early february wouldn't have happened under his administration. watch this. if. >> they wouldn't have ever had a spy balloon if i was president. there wouldn't be a spy balloon over our country. they've taken pictures of every one of our nuclear facilities in

the midwest where we have a lot where they know better than anybody that we have a lot. >> and you're saying that wouldn't happen under you. >> they would never have done it, no. president xi and i had a very strong relationship are. brian: congresswoman, based on how strongly former president trump dealt with china, i kind of am inclined to agree with him on that. your thoughts. >> absolutely. i mean, president trump showed china what strength looks like here in the united states. he showed him that we're not to the afraid to put on economic sanctions and make them feel the pain for their malign activities. but let's be frank here, the i status quo is dangerous. we cannot continue to look at the status quo as the option. we need to be looking at serious options here whether that is economic policy, china should not be allowed to go american farmland. we need to make sure we are making it very clear to them whether it's militarily, economic we are not going to tolerate these ma pa line activities as americans -- malign activities. brian: president biden told

reporters he thought blinken did, quote, a hell of a job, but there's some brutal op-ed headlines out there. and i think a lot of people look at that trip and, to your point about being strong about advancing an agenda, it was more like a photo op. what did you make of this this latest effort by blinken to get something done with china? >> well, again, it comes down to we need to show them that we are willing to hold them accountable, and i feel like that was a complete failure out of secretary blinken's trip. again, all of these instances that we've spent the last couple minutes talking about, the aggression that we're seeing militarily in cuba, these spy operations, the stations that they've set up in cities like new york to spy on not only americans, but harass their own citizens here. there was no accountability for all of that land arely list of malign activities out of the ccp and president xi's regime. so that's what we need. that's what i would call on, again, this administration to do is to step up, show china we mean business and we're not going to tolerate this. we want to deter, that is our

main goal, going forward. you don't do that, you're showing weakness. brian: there's other reports that china's economy is actually experiencing some weakness. it would seem like a good time on the check front to draw some hard lines, but you really don't see or hear much from the administration on derisking, decoupling, call it what you want. is that the way to get leverage most quickly with china right now? enter well, and that that's why our committee has been so deliberate in working with the private sector to talk about what policy solutions might be on the table there. i don't think a full decan coupling across the board is feasible, but we do need to be thinking about national security reasons what can we bring home here and that will unflick pain on them. we need all these countries as a trading partner, but we can continue to enhance our relationships in the region with other countries that we consider to be allies. i think that's our next step. we've been weak on trade, we've been weak on diplomacy. we need to show that strength, and that's our next step,

economic, military strength, and we need to showcase that as americans. brian: make a move, don't just show up for a photo op. congresswoman ashley hinson, thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. brian: time is of the essence to find titanic tourists. the pentagon now pitching in as the vessel's oxygen supply would likely just last until around thursday afternoon. a rescue would be one of the keepest underwater recovery missions in history. plus, former special counsel john durham was on capitol hill for a closed door meeting with the house intelligence committee sharing details of his report on the debunked trump-russia collusion. we're going to the talk about all of it next on "the evening edit." >> durham making it -- makes it very clear that the fbi failed its responsibility of strict fidelity to the law by pushing a bogus investigation for political reasons. ♪ ♪

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brian: former special counsel jon durham was on capitol hill today for a closed door meeting with house intelligence. durham shared details of his report which came after a 4-year investigation that found the fbi had, quote, in actual evidence of a trump-russia collusion scheme ahead of the 2016 presidential election. joining me now is congressman mike garcia who was in the

committee's meeting with durhamed today. congressman, thanks for being here today. first thing i've got to ask is what can you tell us about what you learned that helps us better understand what durham found? >> yeah, just to reiterate conclusively that, you know, the russia collusion hoax was, in fact, a hoax, this was no substantiation for the investigation to rise to the level that it was the, there was clearly an pbi bent to the -- fbi bent to go after this presidential candidate in a different manner, frankly, than the other presidential candidate investigations, in this this case hillary clinton's. so what durham basically laid out for us was, first of all, very thorough. what he provided us was very thorough. but what was missing, to me, were the more important pieces. frankly, not interviewing guys like fbi director comey, assistant deputy director mccabe during this process leaves a lot of empty gaps. and the biggest takeaway were that some of the issues that the

fbi specifically and leadership in the fbi experienced are not things that would be remedied overnight by simple protocol changes especially when it comes to fisa warrants, etc. so this is something we need to continue to look at and specifically the nexus between not only this hurricane crossfire, but also what's being referred to as the clinton the plan. brian: right. >> there's a lot of missing information here still that we need to look at, but appreciate what durham has done. we're certainly not finished. brian: were you able to press him on the missing pieces, learn a little bit more about why those missing pieces matter or why they were avoided? tell us more about that. >> yeah, we certainly pressed him. we asked the questions. we didn't get, frankly, the answers from him. service effectively, hey, thing -- it was effectively, hey, things were now up to the fbi. so we know where to go look and ask the questions. but, again, one of the major takeaways i have is that this fbi, the leadership, the protocols they've put in place

since this hurricane crossfire investigation especially when it comes to fisa are not sufficient of to prevent this from happening in the future. and there's this a paradigm that we need to prevent this from happening in the future, but i believe that one of the biggest ways to prevent from happening in the future so to hold those who have flagrant violations of these protocols in the past, and that would be the deterrence for future violations. if we don't hold those accountable from the past, we should expect this to happen again, and just a matter of which personality's running the fbi. brian: congressman, what can you do about that? the fbi has sort of said, yeah, we had some issues, we made changes. i don't know if anybody's really lost their job through this. so if we're sitting back -- >> yeah, that's -- and that's part of the problem. it's not good enough. that's one of the talking points, it has to go beyond that. losing your job should not be the repercussion for a constitutional violation especially when you're determining the outcome potentially of a presidential election. you should be charged with a criminal federal offense in

case. and what happens is they're applying for these fisa warns, there's warnings and cautions that say, hey, proceed with caution, what you are doing is very serious and make sure you have approvals, but there's not anything in that process that says if you do this with malevolent intent knowingly and wittingly, either missing information or putting this false information, you will be charged with a federal felony k and that doesn't happen right now. that is the big, missing part. brian: is there any chance that the public will get to hear from durham, it'll move from behind closed doors to the public and we can see how you're pressing them in these questions? to do you see anything like that happen? >> i think he's going in front of the judicial committee tomorrow, so we'll hear an unclassified version. there are classified documents that, unfortunately, we can't bring out. one of our primary missions in the intel committee this session is to declassify as much as we can, but if there's national security implications, we won't be able to do that. we'll see a lot of these considerations in open session tomorrow -- conversations in

open session tomorrow with the judicial committee. brian: it seems like more change has to come. congressman, thanks for being with us. >> thank, brian. thank you. brian: dr. marc siegel joins us on using artificial intelligence to predict alzheimer's, and time is of the essence to find the titanic tourist sub. the pentagon now pitching in as the vessel's oxygen supply would likely just last until around thursday afternoon. a rescue would be one of the deepest underwater recovery missions in history. (woman) what if all i do isn't enough? or what if i can do diabetes differently? (avo) now you can with once-weekly mounjaro. mounjaro helps your body regulate blood sugar, and mounjaro can help decrease how much food you eat. 3 out of 4 people reached an a1c of less than 7%.

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brian: rescue crews expanding their search to find the submarine that disappeared in the north atlantic ocean on sunday. the coast guard says there's less than 36 hours of breathable air on the vessel. fox news' molly line is life in boss -- live many boston with the latest.

>> reporter: thus far the search results have yielded no results, there's no sign of the submersible at this point this time. and, of course, as you mentioned, no sign on the people that are onboard. running low on oxygen, as we speak the life support potentially running out by some point on thursday. the coast guard says this is their top priority, a good many assets are still being rushed to to this remote location where the search is underway. remote-operated vehicles are diving, hunting underneath water. the canadian coast guard cutter also heading many that direction, some private research vessels on hand and more on the way some with deep sea scouring capabilities. there are coast guard planes in the sky looking for the titan, that is the name of the sub, should it surface. >> these search efforts have focused on both surface with c-130 aircraft searching by sight and with radar and is sub-surface with p-3 aircraft. we're able to drop and monitor

sonar buoys. to date, those search efforts have not yielded any results. search efforts have continued through last night and today. >> reporter: the weather today better than yesterday. the five people onboard include stockton rush, the founder of oceangate. he is leading the mission. in 20 the 2 the 1, the firm started taking customers to the titanic wreck site, $250,000 potentially for person. hammish harding, the chairman of action aviation, paul henry -- one of the leading experts on the titanic. he is also feared to be among those five people when who went missing, and a conglomerate in pakistan focused on energy agriculture, they tweeted that the company's vice chairman along with his son, quote, embarked on a journey to visit the remnants of the titanic in the atlantic ocean. the coast guard has also reached out to the u.s. navy in hopes of

potentially using some naval assets. the navy had some deep sea capabilities that the coast guard simply does not, so they're keeping that on standby as well with. back to you. brian: molly line, thank you for that that report. for her, let's welcome a rescue diver with more than 30 yearses of experience, butch hendrick. welcome welcome to the program. i want to start with where holly left off. at this point the entire effort is just about search, and there are a lot of assets being deployeded to help with that. but, frankly, it sounds like they are searching for a needle in a haystack, and the likelihood of finding it is not good. what's your assessment of how the search is going right now? >> i think that they're doing everything they can to properly search. they've got aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft in that area, they've searched hundreds of square miles, maybe even a thousand square mimes. they've -- miles. 9 they've put out their own

drifter buoys and what the tracking might have been been if the unit was sub-surfaces and traveling. they're doing everything they can. they're looking at a 96-hour window from the time the vessel was, went into the water. but that 96 hours, apparently, was never tested. it's a hypothetical based on the amount of gas onboard. so they don't really have real numbers as to whether 96 hours is true. and if they ran into a difficulty where people inside were suddenly becoming anxious, the breathing rates would have increased, and in that time window has been reduced. so we think at this point there might be, if they're still alive and there's still oxygen usable, i think we're looking at a 25-hour window. brian: wow. butch, if the search somehow is successful, they find the vessel, talk about the rescue piece of this because it's simply not as simple as opening

up the hatch and, therefore, it's actually unlikely even if they find the vessel that they can rescue the folks inside. talk about the dynamic there. >> well, quite sadly, you're correct because, one, we don't have a unit of submersible capability going down and picking it up and bringing it back to the surface. at the moment. it has not cone its own surfacing process that that it was supposed to do. when we start to look at the time window, we don't have a, we don't have a -- sorry. we don't have a 13,000-foot cable to put down and attach to it to then bring it up. so we'd have to be able to use an unmanned robot to attach a lifting system of sorts to it that would then have to be deployed sub-surface. so lifting it is not an easy

task at all, and attaching to it could actually take more hours than it's already been missing. brian: just enormous come plexty there. butch, let me just ask you this question. i've been thinking about this all day. to get on this craft, you needed to have $250,000. it wasn't clear to me what you needed in terms of training or background. and, of course, some of the folks on there were, have some experience. but others, it appears, did not. what kind of rain thing, if any -- training, if any, would the occupants have received prior to if getting onto it? >> there are certainly people who have been on it and tell you what training they were given. i would imagine that what would have happened is if you were going to be a participant in this trip, it would have been a at least a day spent of teaching you how to use any the emergency procedures there were for it, how to shut off certain systems, how to use the remote so if

anything happened to the other individuals, you could help get us out. there should have been some sort of releasable marker buoys that would have come off or beacons. the unit itself, the submersible , does not have think transponder that could have been set off so that it would have been sending out a signal that our coast guard, our navy, the canadians, etc., would have been able to find quick wily. brian: ah. >> so i believe that there had to be some sort of training, at least a few hours, before the submersible was put in the water with, but i haven't been on it. brian: yeah. >> so you could be talking to people who have taken the trip and they could tell you in the real world what were they taught before they departed. it shouldn't have been like a roller coaster ride. brian: yeah. butch, a complex, difficult situation. we appreciate your perspective. thanks for being with us today. >> thank you for having me. brian: well, dr. marc siegel is with us on using artificial

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brian: new york city grocers are fighting back against rampant shoplifting with the help of facial recognition technology, but now the far-left city council wants to wan it. they claim the -- to ban it. they claim it has high error rates for those with darker skin. madisonal worth live with more. madison. >> reporter: hi, brian. yeah, so if this were to pass, facial recognition technology would be banned in all businesses unless they get

written consent the a customer. business owners we've spoken to say that would completely defeat the point. right now between 30-40% of independent grocery store owners here many new york city use facial recognition technology. it allows them to identify those repeat offenders. owners like carlos use it at their stores. he is located in the bronx. he said the technology allows his employees to stop those repeat offenders before they steal again. tracking those individuals down is important for carlos because last year 30% of all shoplifting arrests were done by the same 327 people. but sponsors of the bill say the benefit does not outweigh the potential downside saying, quote, our city needs solutions to help immigrant business owners combat shoplifting. but those solutions aren't rooted in racially-biased biometric technology that threatens our privacy rights. carlos, a latino business owner himself, kiss agrees with that

sentiment. he says if a hugh like this is -- a move like this is head, it would hurt the brach and brown community that he directly serves. >> this is nothing racial in the system. i don't know what they're referring to. they might be referring to technology that's maybe 10, 15 years old. what they are doing is making our black and brown communities her dangerous by banning a technology -- more dangerous by banning a technology that is proven to work. >> reporter: like i said, his store is located in the bronx, and for carlos it's so important to to stop the shop lifting before it occurs because once the crime happens, there's often not many consequences. here this new york city it's the value of goods stolen, brian, if it's less tan $1,000, it's simply a misdemeanor. i'll send it back to you. brian: fascinating debate. madison, thank you for that. let's urn to a research team this in hong kong using artificial intelligence to predict an individual's risk of developing alzheimer's before the symptoms occur. joining us now, dr. marc siegel. welcome to the show, doctor.

so much of the conversation on a.i. is bad news or gloom or you're going to lose your job. i love this story that a.i. can help with cancer diagnosis. tell us more. >> it's published many a journal called nature, a great journal, and it's from hong kong. they look at a population in china and a op population in the united states of patients with alzheimer's. but they look at what the genes are that may. >> contribute to it. more than one. it's not just one, multiple genes. and they look backwards and forwards in terms of imaging genes, proteins. and they put together a model, they call it a neural network, brian, where you can basically apply it to people and figure out in advance -- and that's the key, in advance -- what the risk of alzheimer's is. and they've got it down to about 70%, 70-80%. and they admit in the study that this will improve as we get more more biomarkers for alzheimer's. so the more information we have,

the more genes we know about, the more blood tests we have and proteins the better the a.i. learning will be. and that's why you're absolutely right, it's great news because think about this. if we apply a.i. learning and the doctors and the scientists are in charge, we can figure out treatments before somebody even gets the disease. brian: doctor, do you get nervous about it? we always talk about the risks of a.i., and this sounds like a good news story. but with as a.i. moves its way into medicine maybe not particular to this case, but do you get nervous about the risks of machines taking over what a human would use their judgment on? >> you know, i'm nervous about the idea of a.i. that's not vetted getting into the patient's hands and then coming up with answers for themselves without a doctor's involvement because, after all, we doctors are overwhelmed with paperwork, we're not as available, and i don't want my patients to be out

there coming up with info from chatgpt that could also be wong. so as long as it's integrated into the health care system and leads to personalized solutions for patients, it's a tool i can use. it's a co-pilot. it can't be the pilot. and i'm nervous about it being the pilot. one point on that, brian, is one study recently said that patients surveyed thinks that a.i. has more empathy than a doctor. [laughter] i can't believe that because i can't believe machine learning would have empathy at all. brian: doctor, i don't think it could have more empathy than you. maybe the average doctor, but i know you, and you're too good for that. we've got to leave it there. always appreciate your expertise, dr. marc siegel. thanks for being with us. >> great to be with you, thank you. brian: more on hunter biden pleading guilty to federal tax and gun charges. we'll look at the timing. plus school's out, we have parents defending education's nicole neily and how kids have been at school in person for a year after covid shutdowns, and

they're still not caught up. but first, let's check in with our friends dagen and sean to see what they have coming up next hour on "the bottom line." hey, guys. sean: hey, brian. we have an epic show coming up. we're going to walk through the hunter biden plea deal, dagen and duffy doing that. kt mcfarland's going to be here. dagen: we talk about the two-tiered justice system. the it's really biden justice and then everybody else. plus rob schneider and michael loftus on together, all hell will break with loose, and you do not want to miss it. ♪ ♪ after advil dual action back pain... yo! uh! ha! ha! [dog bark] what? my back feels better. before advil... new advil dual action back pain

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brian: summer break is beginning for most students, but schools across the nation say disastrous test scores are showing a lasting -- the lasting impacts that covid-19 had on children's learning losses. with us now, nicole neily. nicole, thanks for being with us today. i have to to say this, kids have been at school in person for about a year now, and they're still not caught up. what is going on in schools that is preventing us getting back on tracksome. >> well, let's remember that, you know, children are in school for a e finite period of time every day, 7, 8 hours. and rather than spending every minute of every day making up that astonishing learning loss

that our children were were forced to go through, we've seen districts across the country redistrict resources and classroom time -- redirect towards identity projects, social justice initiatives. so children are not make up that learning losses and, frankly, even before the pandemic student achievement was nothing to write home about. it's horrible. brian: nicole, this gap really bothers me. but on question of fixing it, look, some states are talking about having students be in the classroom longer e. i think you make a great point, the outcomes weren't that good before covid, frankly. a lot of students are looking at charter schools, school choice. huge issue. cards on the table for he, i'm a big advocate of that. i think competition makes things better. do you see that movement gaining even more momentum given the data we're seeing? >> absolutely. i think when parents saw their children learning in their homes, when they actually had a window in to how their children

learned, they recognize this one-size-fits-all model has not been serving our children well. obviously, public schools in many cases are trying to undermine family values, so families are looking for other opportunities that that better serve their children's needs. so i think that, yes, the demand is there, and when the demand is there, hopefully the market will follow. brian: you're in virginia, a teacher's union executive in virginia is defending remote learning saying learning loss made everyone equal. in a recent interview with propublica, he said the whole thing i find about learning loss i find funny is aren't we all equal? we all have a deficit. i think this is a terribly troubling statement but also revealing because what it shows you is so-call9 equality -- called equality movement isn't about achievement, it's the about making everyone the same even if the same means nobody's learning anything. >> right. let's remember equity to these people means equality of

outcome. and as you point out, that is not actually how this is practiced. high income families, you know, they were able to pay for tutors, they were able to have, supplement their children's learning whereas disadvantaged children were the ones that saw the greatest drop canoff. so if anything, these people who scream equity from the rooftops, if anything, they've hurt disadvantaged children more than anyone else. it's sick, testing wrong and it certainly hat not -- has not led to equal outcomes. brian: equity always seems to bring the bar down instead of helping people rise up to the higher bar, education and beyond that. nicole neily, weeave it there. thanks for being with us today. >> thank you. brian: all right. more on hunter biden pleading guilty to federal tax and gun charges. we'll lack at the timing of thif this with tammy bruce next. ♪ ♪ nd engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do.

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♪. >> this is cory graphed by the democratic dnc. he is in california. far garr is out of the country. basically get a letter brief, that's it. by the way there is durham testimony today. they are trying to diffuse, downplay the hunter biden charges as if okay, case closed. this case is not closed by any stretch of the imagination. brian: civil rights attorney

leoter referral on fox news today. questions are saying this deal was set up to put hunter biden in the clear. james comer revealed two additional 1023 forms into his investigation in the biden bribery scheme involving foreign nationals. for more on all of this. let's bring in fox news contributor tammy bruce. start with leo's statement. he says the timing here is curious. you think so? >> a lot of things they're trying to rush through. we dealt with this. it's nothing. president biden, we have already seen headlines oh, he stood by his son, he was sure. the fact of the matter is, the issue of bribery, of course needs to be considered innocent until proven guilty of anything else, but that is attached to money that came in inexplicable money joe biden hasn't explained, hunter has not explained. filing forms late and not explaining certain income, which

seems to be separate from then analyzing whether or not you know, where did that money come from? what was that money for? if the investigation continues and it may. there is some analysis that the investigation, where does the investigation go when it comes to, who is in charge of the investigation to assess about the issue of bribery? and that's what the american people care about. brian: yes. >> this seems like a two-tier justice system. donald trump might spend the rest of his life in jail because of a document error. and this guy is walking free on something that may be certainly more serious. brian: i think it is so curious the spotlight is on here what hunter didn't pay the government but the bigger issue for america where did the money come from and what does it mean for national security, right? >> yes. brian: i look at, you have conflicting statements. investigation may be ongoing. hunter's attorney says it may be closed but either way do you get

the answer to that question? >> i don't think so. we've never gotten answers to questions like that. people, kind of get buried into the memory hole go away, things just go away for the protected class. the protected class are the democrats. no one has been held accountable certainly not for the fake russian dossier hoax. not for irs targeting tea party years ago. i'm sure lois lerner enjoying her pension. you have a whole host of things that led to the trump election in 16 was yes, trump but it was also this feeling amongst the american people something wasn't quite right. there was separate system for those individuals. this seems to be harkening back to that concern. brian: james comer, full steam ahead. looking at more documents today. what do you make of that? >> that is i guess the one benefit is we will at least have some clarity even though no one will perhaps be held accountable but the american people will know, keep in mind, if the

republicans didn't get a bare majority in the house we wouldn't even have this going on. we wouldn't even know this. it is always difficult to prove a negative. what haven't we been able to investigate? at least we got that. the american people deserve more. people in the justice system in general deserve to know that it's actually fair and right now the government's failing in sending that kind of a message. brian: it looks like they're just trying to put this to bed. oh look, he pleaded. that is the end of it. >> we'll be distracted. we're not going to notice when it kind of goes away because that's what has always occurred. whether it is hillary, whether anyone unnamed individual in the system we all deserve better. brian: tammy bruce, always appreciate you being here. tune in tomorrow night for more on this. oversight chairman james comer, former white house deputy chief of staff. now time for "the bottom line," hey dagen and sean.