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david: larry, thank you very much is. i'm david asman, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ david: congressional investigations into the biden family are heating up, and speaker kevin mccarthy believes there's only one way for congress to get to the bottom of all this. watch. >> sure, you're probably canning the same question, where's the truth? you've got to get to the bottom of the truth, and the only way congress can do that is go to impeachment inquiry that gives us the ability to get all the information. david: a lot of people question whether congress is ready to tackle an impeachment inquiry right now. with me is house judiciary chairman jim jordan. great to see you again, chairman, thank you for being here. is it time for an impeachment inquiry in do you have enough evidence? >> i think what the speaker was saying is when you get to an

inquiry pause, that gives -- phase, that gives you the information of to get more information in a timely fashion instead of playing this back and forth, this dance you have to do with the justice department or whatever agency you're dealing with. so i think that's important. look, our job is to follow the facts, follow the evidence, and here's what we're now seeing, the story from the white house keeps changing as to what biden's knowledge or involvement was hunter widen, and -- hunter biden, and then the story from the justice department has certainly changed. but the story that's been consistent has been the testimony from the whistleblowers, mr. shapley and mr. ziegler, and it's been backed i, as you know, david, but an fbi agent who was deposed by the oversight committee as well. i think we just keep doing our job, and if we have to go to the impeachment inquiry phase, we're going go there. david: well, on monday, i believe behind closed doors, you're going to hear from the

former business partner of hunter, devon archer. do you suspect that he may have a smoking gun of some kind? >> i don't know, but that's one more step, one more part of our -- look, we're supposed to do our duty, our constitutional duty. if, in fact, that leads to an impeachment inquiry, so be e it. but let's do our job so that we can figure out what exactly happened, how that may impact the appropriations process with money going to these various agencieses, what it may mean for possible legislation. that's our job, our duty to the constitution. we're going to do all that. mr. archer a's scheduled, now, he's been scheduled multiple times before, and somehow those didn't work out, so we'll see what happens next monday. but there's an important -- those are important questions relative to things that have been in the press that say joe biden may have been if more involved than he's indicated -- can. david: by the way, there's also questions about his own credibility. how certain are you of his credibility in because he has, i believe he's either been convicted or he pleaded to

crimes before. >> yeah. , no i mean, look, the two people whose credibility seems unimpeachable right now are gary shapley and mr. ziegler. they were so good last week, their story -- i mean, look, they recorded things contemporaneously, hay they memorialized those. the e-mail from the october 27th, 2022, meeting where with where the u.s. attorney weiss told gary shapley and the other folks in that meeting that he didn't have full authority, he requested special counsel status, was turned down on that and then, of course, the justice department says a different story, but he recorded it at the time, that very day, sends it to a colleague who was in the meeting who confirmed it. so, again, i think their credibility's been rock solid. david: both of them. meanwhile, of course, democrats are fingering you as providing false evidence suggesting you lied -- let me just play a little sound bite from madeleine dean, she's a democrat on your committee. roll tape. >> what is so dangerous is the

willingness of mr. jordan and and others on the republican side of the dais in judiciary to absolutely peddle in lies. where's the evidence? there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by the president. and mr. mccarthy knows that. david: congresswoman dean told you what lies, so-called, you are peddling. >> yeah, i have no idea what she's talking about, and i haven't said anything. all i'm saying is what the facts show. right now the facts show 20 different companies, shell companies, that were set up, multiple bidens being paid by foreign nationals, many of them coming from some countries that aren't do our friends. that all happened, and you ask the fundamental question, david, what were they doing, what was the product they were offering, what was the service they were providing, what value were they adding, what'd they do? other than providing access to joe biden, i can't come up with a logical conditions. so we're just exploring all that. and then you have the investigation into hunter biden

and the whistleblowers who come forward with the facts and the stories that they're told us that are checking out and seem entirely credible. i haven't said anything other than what's been brought to us, what the facts show, and we're going to stick to that as we move forward. david: well, she says where's the evidence. i would suggest that the whatsapp text from hunter biden shaking down a chinese business partner and saying that his father is in the room and there's going to be hell to pay if you don't pay us, i mean, is that not evidence? >> yeah. and pictures of joe biden with hunter biden and his other, and the business partners. i mean, you have that. you have the testimony here. you have the idea that we have this 1023 form that initially the fbi wouldn't with even, wouldn't even confirm whether it existed or not, then they said, yes, it does, but you can only see it -- the chairman can only see it. then only the committee members, finally, senator grassley said, to heck with this, i'm going to

make it public, and it's from a source who had good credibility with the fbi they've used before. so, again, all this is evidence, so i don't know what my colleague is talking about when she says there's no evidence. david: i want to switch gearses because you are juggling a lot of balls in the air at the same time including the continuing concern about government censor toship, what role they played during the pandemic, that role they played during the election in 2020, what role they may play in the 2024 election. you have, you are in the process of moving a contempt charge against the ceo of meta, the guy who runs facebook, mr. zuckerberg. what's going on there? what's the latest in that move? >> we want the information from facebook, from meta, that we got from twitter. he -- we want these internal communications which talk about when the government was pressuring twitter trying to get them to take down certain speech, certain content, limit the visibility filtering, limit how that could be shared, we

think the same thing went on at facebook, but we haven't got those communications. that's what we've been pressing for, and if we have to issue contempt on thursday, we will do that. we just want the information because we know this was going on. we had the hearing last week where, for goodness sake, on the third day of the biden administration they sent an e-mail, the white house to twitter, saying take down this tweet asap. and who was it about? our witness last week, rfk jr. of the biden administration, literally 37 hours into their new administration, was looking to censor their democrat presidential primary opponent. that's not suppose to happen in america. [laughter] but it did, and we have -- there were all kinds of other things not to mention the federal case in louisiana that had 86 pages of the white house and other federal agencies censoring americans. americans, not foreign, american speech. and the court was clear in laying out the facts that took place during the biden administration. we want that stopped, and is we want to get the information from facebook.

david: congressman, do you have any evidence or even suspicion that the government is still involved, government agencies might still be involved in trying to steer information on various social media sites? >> well, the ones we've asked, we had chris wray in front of the committee a couple weeks ago, that question was specifically asked by one of my colleagues in light of the court's opinion on july 4th, are you still meeting9 with the big tech companies like they did throughout the last several years, and his answer i was, no, they're not. so we hope it stopped, and we'll see how this case progresses through the federal court system. that. david: all right. well, you're doing a lot of work that is of great interest to americans all over the country. thank you so much for joining us, appreciate it. chairman jordan. well, wall street extending its longest rally to 12 days of wins, the dow ending up again today, but the market's recent string of success still doesn't seem to be strickling -- trickling down to everyday americans. edward lawrence is live at the white house with more on that. edward. >> reporter: david, yeah, the

real issue, this wedge now you alluded to forming between main street and wall street. as you to said, the dow has now finished up 12 straight days, it's the longest streak since february of 2017. with but average worker still seeing wages fall short of inflation by about 3% since the month president biden took office, january 2021. the president trying to rebrand his poor poll numbers on the economy as bidenomics. the fact is under his tenure the federal reserve had to go on the most aggressive set of rate hikes in decades with slower economic growth. here's the spin. >> unemployment remains at near record lows, and inflation has fallen to 3%. president biden investing in america serving as a wind in the sails of the economy. investments in domestic manufacturing are booming. that's bidenomics in action, and the american people are beginning to feel bidenomics. >> reporter: so goldman sachs is now saying there's a 20% of

recession, but they've been always the most optimistic. other analysts are saying the economy is showing the leading indicators of a recession coming. some market experts believe this recess, though -- recession, though, will be unique. >> it e won't be like a normal recessionful normally when people get laid off, they can't find another job, they have to, you know, cut back spending and it's just a terrible ordeal. what's happening now is that with, yeah, is.6 -- 1.6 job openings per person looking for a job, you don't see that. people get laid off, they get back into another job. >> reporter: and the federal reserve still saying that inflation won't get back to the 2% target until the end of 2025. we'll have to see how that factors into a rate increase we're expecting tomorrow the, possibly another one later on this year. back to you, david. david: edward lawrence from the white house, thank you. with me now is former treasury official and america first policy institute chief economist

michael faulkender. thank you for being here. let me just roll a little sound from vice president kamala harris, what he said about bidenomics last night. roll tape. >> all of this is part of our blueprint together for what america can be. this is bidenomics, a plan to invest in america and build a future in which all people can truly thrive. and i am here to say we have more work to do. david: but, michael, here's another view of bidenomic es. look at the explosion, we've got a chart we can put up. it shows the explosion in government jobs over the past six months. that big, long, red line is the area where most jobs have been created in the past six months. that's government. government is what is exploding more than any other sector. and, actually, if you look down the list there, you can see health care, a lot of those

health care jobs are actually government-funded. social assistance, again, government spending is a lot of that. so is that really what bidenomics represents, this explosion in government jobs? >> that is exactly what bidenomics represents. it is a top-down, government-controlled, central planning economy where we're going to deficit spend and create government jobs. as you mentioned, david, if you look at last month's jobs report, the four sectors with where you saw the greatest increases were government jobs, social services, health care and then construction related to some of the spending associated with the infrastructure bill and the chips act. and so it's interesting to hear them try to contrast the economic conditions that the american people are facing. urn president biden and vice president harris, you know, compared to what we had prior to the pandemic. we saw very similarly a 3.5% unemployment rate, but the difference is that we had real wages rising under the trump administration rather than real wages falling. we had interest rates near

record lows as opposed to interest rates following tomorrow's expected rate increase at the highest level the american people have seen in nearly 22 years. so there's an important contrast to be had between when you allow the private sector to lead and the government gets out of the way through a deregulatory environment and a to to-tax reform environment -- a pro-tax reform government. david: industrial policy, i think, boils down to politicians and unelected bureaucrats spending oh people's money -- other people's money. in other words, people who don't have their own skin in the game spending money. it's easy to do that, and it's easy to find failures like solyndra and lordstown and others. >> that's right. i mean, the question is, with whom do the american people put their faith? is it the small business that they go to and get their needs from, or is it unelected bureaucrats in washington who take a one-size-fits-all approach and think if it works

in washington, it must work throughout the united states. one of the things i remind people is one of the greatest things about the united states is our diversity. but as a result of that diversity, we need small businesses that are out there serving the unique needs of these differential communities. and the idea that government is going to provide this same outcome for everybody is somehow going to serve this immensely diverse nation is just a fallacy, and yet that's at the heart of bidenomics. david: i'm happy that inflation has come down are from its heights, but it's still much more than it was, even though the president is making these ridiculous claims about gas prices which have been going up recently. let me just play what he said. roll tape. >> the most common price of gas in america is $3.39. down if from over $5 when i took office. david: of course, when he took office, gas was actually $2.30 a gallon. so you see all these, i mean,

maybe that was a slip, but there's so many misstatements that have been made, it's hard to believe that was a slip. >> well, that's the problem is, that they seem to be operating urn a completely false set of premises that they seem to go out regularly and tell tell the american people. there's a reason why president biden has earned, you know, an endless pinocchio from the washington post on some of his economic lames. the idea that he came into office with $5 a gallon gas, no. that occurred a good year and a half into his presidency as a result of the war that he engaged on american energy production. the gas prices were significantly lower when he entered office, and to instead claim that gas prices have come down -- no, they're significantly higher than when he entered office, and it's a result of his policies. david: yeah. and oil's back up to $80 # a barrel. with new regulations from the biden administration on toes fossil fuels,es gas and oil prices are going to go up yet

again -- go ahead, quickly. >> secretary granholm is out there asking for foreign countries to try to pump more supply instead of facilitating american production here. david: right. foreign countries that make oil in the dirtiest ways possible. michael, thanks very much. coming up, country music star jason aldean speaking out in the wake of the backlash are over his song "try that in a small town" as its streaming soars 1,000%. plus, former economic adviser to president trump, steve mike on reports the biden campaign is making concessions to avoid viral moments that would reinforce voters' worries about president biden's age. that's next. ♪ ♪ >> inflation's' slowed every single month in the last 12 -- on aer yearly basis, for the last 12 the months. ♪ ♪

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meetings with leaders, staffers have been working overtime to tame a variety of bad optics from the president. according to an nbc news article, his campaign is making concessions to avoid viral moments that would reenforce voters' wore arelies about his age. joining us now is former economic adviser to donald trump, steve moore. steve, thanks for being here. we're going to talk a little more to politics than you're used to, we'll get into economics. that moment with the israeli president, i mean, a lot of people, frankly, thought that he'd fallen i sleep. he was mumbling. if the white house thinks they're improving optics with shows like that, they're mistaken, i think, don't you? >> you know, it is interesting, david, because i was mentioning to you off air that i spent the afternoon with donald trump, and i think that trump and biden are roughly about the same age. i think biden may be a little bit offedder, but it just -- the contrast of trump's energy, you know, his forcefulness and his

mental acuity and joe biden is just, it's quite stark actually. and, look, i don't like to make fun of people's age. i mean, he is old and, look, i don't think he's going to be the democratic mom fear, i'll say it right on your show. i think the democrats are going to pick someone else because he's losing it. i kind of feel sorry for him. i'm embarrassed by those moments. david: well, you know, there are people that are older than he is. some people say that bernie sanders can run circles around him in terms of -- even though he's actually older than joe biden. but joe biden, i mean, it really does, those flashcards make it appear as though he just can't think on his own. i don't think they're helping at all. >> well, the problem is, david, this: no matter what you think of -- look, i think joe biden should not be the next president because be hi -- i think his policies have been so awful for the country. but even if you think that joe biden has done good things for the country, do you really think he can do this job for four or

five more years? it just seems so improbable to me -- david: well, and and even, you know, even with the best flashcards, how does he explain the afghanistan withdrawal? how does he explain what's happening at the border in the how does he explain inflation himself which he makes, you know, incorrect claims as we just talked about in the last segment. now, you mentioned that you met with donald do trump. i've got to is ask you some questions about, first of all, the polls that came out. fox business had a bunch of polls in iowa and south carolina showing him still with this commanding lead. does he think that he's a lock-in right now? >> no, not a lock-in, but i have to tell you, he was over the moon on those fox business polls. he was showing them to me and his whole staff and, you know, he's got a big lead in almost every one of those early states including iowa, including new hampshire, south carolina. and so, you know, look, it's looking moremore like trump is going to be very, very hard for any republican to beat. and i think, you know, it's

going to be hard for ron desantis who's in second place to catch him because -- and i think ron desantis, by the way, has been a fabulous governor, you know? [laughter] he's been an amazing governor, but for one reason or another, he's not catching on right now with the voters. ill say trump has a commanding position right now. but don't forget, larry -- i mean, larry, a david -- david: that's a compliment, go ahead. >> that is a compliment. that we've seen, you know, front-runners fall down. so this is not inevitable by any means. david and we just put up the poll in south carolina showing the economic issues, 4 # % of the people, by far the greatest plurality of numbers, are concerned about economic -- actually, that's in the iowa. in south carolina it was 51%. so is donald trump cognizant of that and perhaps one of the reasons that desantis isn't catching on is because he doesn't seem to be focused on the economic issues? >> well, i guarantee you that

donald trump is going to be totally focused on the economy. you know, he is just -- we we talked a lot about, look, what has happened with inflation, what has happened with the national debt, what has happened with the out of control border, what has happened to family finances. and you know, what i told him, larry -- [laughter] i keep calling you larry! david, the reason i said to donald trump your case for being president is very simple, you look into that camera remember what ronald reagan asked, are you better off than you were four years ago. and and most americans, hell, no, they're not. david: well, and i remember four years ago as well. steve, thank you very much for being here, we appreciate it. take care. coming up, we have twitter files' journalist matt taibbi with his take on the house judiciary committee announcing it's going to hold a hearing on thursday to begin contempt proceedings against meta ceo mark zuckerberg. also fox news contributor joe concha on country music tar

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david: country star a jason aldean grateful for his supporters and fans in the wake of the backlash over his song "try that in a small town" as it, by the way, streaming soared 1,000% what they were before the controversy. here he is talking about it in concert over weekend. roll tape. >> somebody asked me, hey, man, do you think can you're going to play the song tonight? the answer was simple. [cheers and applause] the people have spoken, and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week. david: with me now is fox news

contributor joe concha. joe, i'm thinking that the best thing that could possibly happen to anybody right now is to be attacked by the woke mob. i mean, immediately -- [laughter] your fortunes go up. >> it seems that way at this point, doesn't it? or if you offend enough people, then you're bud height are, then you're target, right? -- bud light. you saw those numbers, up 1,000%. and, remember, this was a song that came out a couple months ago, david. this isn't like a new song, somebody decided to become offended and here's what where we are. and all he did was speak common sense. she -- he shouldn't even have to defend himself. how do we get to a point where if a musician sings about riots being bad and so many americans are tired of their country being torn apart, why is that a bad thing? worse yet, how is that a a racist thin in and cmt, by the way, should be ashamed of themselves for pulling the video, because twitter is not real life. and when the small, very niche group begins screaming about

racism on that platform that doesn't exist and how jason aldean needs to be censored, these networks and these sponsors need to understand that social media doesn't reflect the reality on the ground and and grow the semblance of a backbone. by pulling this video, there's your boomerang effect, it's now at number one on the that is rights d charts. david: we saw almost the same thing happen with a movie called sound of freedom which was actually made five or six years ago, so it was made but it was just distributed more recently for a lot of reasons we won't get into. but the woke crowd went after this movie claiming it was qanon. the movie was made before qanon existed, before anybody had heard about qanon. and as a result of that woke feedback, the movie has soared. it cost $14 million to make, it's made over 100 million so far. >> over $100 million. it was outwith pacing indiana jones and the temple of -- i was about to say the temple of doom

and put myself back about 40 years, the new indiana jones movie. and, obviously, this didn't have the marketing, it didn't have all the things that that studio had behind that particular film, and that was disney behind that film. so i just can't believe, again, that we're at a point where we're talking about child trafficking and a movie that shines a big spotlight on that, and somehow this is seen as a bad thing? as a qanon thing? when, as you said, qanon wasn't even born yet, david. david: as a result of that attack, the movie, i think, increased. the worst thing that can happen is when the woke crowd is actually in your boardroom. you mentioned bud light, we've got an update, by the way, i've got it in my phone here. i think we can put it up on the screen. the sales changes, look at this,sing we've got all of these other beers going up 21%, guinness, miller lite's up 20%, even ultra is up 3.5%. bud light is down 34%. what do you make of this? i mean, when will these

corporations catch on? >> people just want escapism whether it be sports, david, or whether it is having a beer while watching a sporting event. so for bud light to get involved into something so controversial for such a small, small part of the population are, by the way, this is the result. and now people are going to get fired, and they already have at places like anheuser-busch because -- david: as well they should be. their performance has been terrible. joe, you're sod good, we want you to stay with us, we're going to bring you on towards the end of the show. we'll see you in a moment. meanwhile, the biden state department is under fire for spending millions in your tax dollars on pet projects, and i mean pet, emphasis on pet. also, an exclusive interview with twitter files' journalist matt taibbi coming up on the house judiciary committee announcing it will hold a hearing on thursday to gun contempt proceedings against -- begin contempt proceedings against mark zuckerberg. that's next on "the evening

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>> we want the information from facebook, from meta, that we got from twitter. we want these internal communications which talk about when the government was pressuring twitter trying to get them to take down certain speech, we think the same thing went on at facebook, but we haven't got those communications, so that's what we've been pressing for. if we have to go to contempt to on thursday, we will do that. david: that was house judiciary committee chair jim jordan with us early on the gop's move to hold mark zuckerberg in contempt of congress for failing to comply with subpoenas to turn over documents related to the panel's investigation into whether or not the company censored free speech on its platform. house judiciary will consider the measure on thursday. meanwhile, here with me is author, investigative journalist math to -- matt taibbi.

what do you think about the gop taking on zuckerberg? if. >> well, it's an extreme step, you know, contempt of congress. but i think, you know, chairman jordan, he's correct in identifying that there are a lot of indications that the same things that went on at twitter were going on at facebook. in fact, we had in the twitter files joint e-mails that were going from meta or facebook to both twitter and the fbi, for instance, so we mow they were talking about the same kinds of things. so he's right, i think, to look for that same kind of evidence. david: do you think that facebook is still in some way working with government agencies? >> i would imagine so. i would imagine all the platforms are, have some kind of a relationship. there are people, actually, there are lots of indications that facebook was more enthusiastic about cooperating with the government than, say, twitter was for years. so i would think that that's going on, for sure is.

and that's extended also to instagram and, you know, everything else in the universe. david: that's the problem with censorship, i mean, it dies hard, you know? once government agencies get used to doing that, wielding their power in censor yous ways, it does have a tendency not to go away, isn't that right? >> this is the point that i've been trying to make the entire year which is once one of these companies gives in on one request, then you can be sure they're going to come back over and over and over again. in fact, we saw communications with twitter executives where they said this isn't the edge of this, you know? we're going to see this over and over again -- this isn't the end of this. and i think that was the pattern with that company, probably with all the company. and we know that the government has been in contact with lots of these companies. david: and it's the pattern of politicians. once they get the feel of that power, they get greedy. we saw it last week when rfk was giving testimony, they were trying to censor him in a committee hearing on censorship.

i mean, or they just didn't get it, the optics of that were so horrible, it was, i mean, i just would be interested in your opinion about what he went through. >> i thought that was unbelievable. i mean, my own experience before that committee was bizarre enough, but as a lifelong denial the accurate -- democrat to watch somebody like rfk who's an iconic figure, for them to try to move the whole thing to executive session -- [laughter] and then deny that they're trying to censor him on television was just unbelievable. david: unbelievable. it was like a "saturday night live" routine. i mean, it was incredible. now, you mentioned your testimony. of course, it became famous for the fact that while you were there giving testimony before a congressional committee, the irs was knocking on your -- literally knocking on your door, an unannounced visit. it had never happened to you before where, frankly, i can't think of to it happening to many people ever.

now the irs says that that they're going to stop or at least limit those unannounced visits. do you think they're just, they're just trying to make the best of a bad situation, or do they mean it? >> i mean, i'm cautiously optimistic that they're responding to the negative if press that came from that incident. i'm unused to the phenomenon of good news and government going together, but this seems to be what that was. i thought it had to be a coincidence that they came to -- to my house that day, but the information that we got made that seem unlikely and, you know, they took a lot of criticism for that and i think rightly so. maybe they're really making a change. i hope so. david: matt, generally speak, this has got to be the last question, but when you look at the whole sphere the of all the stuff that's coming out now in the government because of what you did with twitter, because of what these congressional hearings are doing, do you think we're with moving in the right direction now, or are are we still stuck in this censorious

mode? >> i think it's a great debate that the country's about to have which i think is long overdue. thanks to the twitter files, thanks to the material that chairman jordan's committee dug up about, for instance, the ukrainian secret services sending on requests from the fbi or through the fbi, you know, all the stuff that's come out, the missouri v. biden case, nobody can say it's not happening now. so the country's not going to have an argument over whether they want this or not, and i think most people don't want it. i'm glad we're going to have that discussion. david: well, matt, you're a great journalist, you have been for a long time. and the service you've done in unwrapping this onion of censorship that's been going on for too long now is really heroic, and we thank you for being here and for doing what you've done. >> thank you so much for having me on. david: good to see you. more on the white house coming out with a new take on president biden's involvement in his son hunter's business dealings, plus the biden state department is

under fire for spending million of your tax dollars on pet projects, literally on pets. but first, let's check in with dagen and sean, both of whom have pets and love them, but maybe they don't want tax dollars to pay for them -- sean: we love our pets, and we love you, david asman. thank you for that. congressman bill huizenga from michigan talking about environmental social governance if as well as are republicans going to impeach joe biden? we also have jimmy failla coming, stopping by in the b block. dagen: we have senator markwayne mullin on hillary clinton blaming maga republicans for the heat. well, she still lost to donald trump, now, can't she? and our power panel. stay with us, top of the hour.i, ♪ ♪ nk. helping businesses both large and small, communities and the people who live and work there

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david: so the biden state department is urn fire for spending millions on pet projects including diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and environmental funding overseas. the gop says it underscores how misplaced this administration's priorities are. joining us now is senator eric schmitt from the senate commerce department of good to see you with, i haven't seen you since you were a.g., but that's another story. you sent a letter to secretary of state antony blinken last

week demanding his answers about this spending, like on $30 million on deiish -- can dei issues overseas while we have a backlog of getting i out passports for u.s. citizens? i mean, it's just crazy. >> yeah. and that's the important context, david, is how we got to got here. we've gotten, you know, over 500 inquiries into our office alone, my senate office alone, about delayed passports. it's reached a point where american citizens are waiting months for a passport. so when you have that kind of failure to do the basic functions of government, i mean, the federal government does all kinds of stuff it shouldn't do. one of the things it's supposed to do is deliver that service for people who are traveling. they're not doing that. so what are some of the other things they're doing? well, spending $30 million for dei initiatives in other countries. i mean, this stuff is nuts. they're paying $1.5 million for promoting sports many other countries. it's very bizarre.

but the punchline that the american people deserve better, to have their passport if applications processed in a reasonable time. david: i want to talk about another pet pee that you have which is the administration taking over the constitutional powers away from equal branches like the congress with, of course, the student loan are forgivend program. forgiveness program. or like the supreme court which voted against the administration in favor of giving power back to congress which is supposed to allocate resources that large, $400 billion large. does that concern you and what can we do about it? i mean, what if the administration just tries to defy the supreme court and spend money through executive powers anyway? in well, this administration has a track record of just sort of thumbing its nose at the rule of law. the only thing that's happening with the supreme court is they don't like the decisions. they don't hike this is a court that will apply the law and not how they want the law to be. so they're talking about undermining the supreme court now, packing the supreme court.

let's be clear, david, they're only a vote or two away in the senate if they had the house to packing the court. part of my mission here in the nat is to take on this broader administrative state. it's not joe biden's prerogative to wipe away half a trillion. you also had the runaway vaccine mandate from osha which is an agency created to make sure forklifts would beep when they back up. time and again you see a supercharge administrative state that's being, you know, run by the biden administration, and it's the a violation of the separation of powers. david: and he does not have the authority to usurp the power of the judiciary i -- i mean, that's how dick today dictatorships start. first hinge they do is to try to politicize, pull powers away from an independent judiciary, and too often hay succeed. we don't want it the happen here.

senator, thank you for joining us, appreciate it. >> good to see you, david. david: joe concha is back with us with more on the white house coming out with president biden's new take on his involvement with his son hunter's business dealings, particularly hunter's magnificent paintings. that's next on "the evening edit." >> damn liar, man, that's not true. no one has said my son did anything wrong, and you said i set up my son to work in an oil company. ♪ more than just an investor, you're an owner. our financial planning tools and advice can help you prepare for today's longer retirement. hi mom. that's the value of ownership. book a work trip. earn onekeycash. shake some hands. do not forget to laugh. [laughing] book a get-away-from-work trip. use onekeycash. order some sides. do not disturb. join one key to earn and use rewards

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>> well questions are mounting as insider reveals that an exclusive report that a real estate investor and philanthropist who purchased artwork was reported to commission for the preservation of america's heritage abroad by president biden back with me now so discuss senator eric schmidt from the department we had joe concha his power went out as a result of a summer storm so thank you actually you're perfect for this. there's been inside as you know this, it is back padding things you do something for me i'll do something for you. we have that ambassadorship often went to big contributors but this goes over light. there's something unseemly about this move, no? >> well i agree. i think you add that to what's

come out in the last few weeks wall seem to be closing in here. on the hunter biden also could be with president biden as well. the irs whistle-blowers coming forward they have no desire to be in the public eye they felt they were doing a service to the country by coming forward and telling house judiciary committee and what they do and you have the revelations from, you know, senator grassley, that, you know, there could have been $10 million, 5 million to jill and 5 million to hunter biden for what that warrants further investigation so you have this drip, drip, drip and by the way if half of these are true that makes "watergate" look like a pimple on the backside of an elephant. >> you think charges that could be applied as well but finally it appears that one of hunter's paintings went to his son from a woman he didn't marry and woman that -- the president doesn't even recognize is his granddaughter.

it's -- there's something inside the beltway that's happening about the image of joe biden. can you briefly explain that? >> well, look i think democrats will even privately tell you this is all very concerning. i think if you're an american citizen, this is not good for the republic for president to potentially be this compromised. with all of the money that's going we just had had a previous segment about money going to ukraine and you know, donald trump was impeached for talking to people about what joe biden might have done. so -- >> i know. senator we've to leave it at that thank you so much for staying with us good to see you you can sending your e-mails to emac viewers at fox.com we love reading them i'm david in for elizabeth mcdonald thanks for watching evening edit on fox business and now it is time for 'the bottom line' with dagen and sean. >> you've got it. ♪ ♪