sean: thanks for watching this special edition of "kudlow." don't forget to tune in tonight for "the bottom line." nick -- nikki haley, steve mere -- moore, but right now we have liz macdonald. elizabeth: thank you, sean, you're doing double duty. it's good to see you. we're staying on this, major uproar in d.c. top house republicans say it's a cover-up. a.g. garland named david weiss

as the hunter biden special counsel, but weiss has gone weak on the case already, lawmakers say, in order to protect joe biden. and now what could counteract all of that? congressman greg steube today files inpeachment charges to launch a probe and inquiry there, and trump hammers special counsel jack smith for scheduling the trial on 2020 before the iowa caucuses, calling it election interference. this backlash too, reports that special counsel smith stopped twitter are from telling trump that smith was secretly probing trump's twitter account, and twitter didn't like it either. also biden undercuts bidenomics, admits the inflation reduction act won't cut inflation at all. i'm liz mac donald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ elizabeth: okay, let's go right at it from house judiciary and house oversight, congressman russell fry and former federal

president andrew ya cow key. congressman fry, what is the fighting going on right now in your committees? is weiss being brought in to stop the house gop probe so the biden family corruption allegations? >> well, i think all signs seem to point to that. i mean, this is the same u.s. attorney that wouldn't allow irs investigators to look at or question joe biden or hunter biden. this is the same u.s. attorney that tipped off, that tipped off the secret service about seeking tax documents in the storage facility. this is the same u.s. the attorney that has changed his story about his ability to prosecute, who has slow-walked investigations allowing things, statute of limitations to run and who was about to give hunter biden the sweetheart deal of a lifetime. this, to me, all points to, you know, we're going to continue to reward incompetence and favoritism, so it's deeply troubling, where we're headed right now. elizabeth: so what congressman fry just said, ann andrew, the

question is, why now? why did david weiss can ask for special counsel substitute now? >> it's really too little, too late at this point. it's unclear why the timing is at this point. appointing the special counsel. but i think what we have to look at is the idea that there are all sorts of pressures by congress for weiss to testify before congress, and i think that the appointment as special counsel is going to be one more hurdle that congress is going to have in order to put weiss in front of the congressional panels in order to ask tough questions about why the investigation has gone on for song so long and why weiss thought that it was wise to cut a deal that a federal judge shot to down in a matter of minutes. so there's a lot of questions here, and i think the special counsel appointment is going to be one more hurdle in the way of us getting those answers. elizabeth: yeah. this is the same david weiss accused of giving that sweetheart plea deal to hunter biden which would have immunized him from future felonies. so this is a major separation of

powers fight because the executive branch oversees the justice department, and then, you know, congress has been talking about impeachment of, you know, biden. we've got congressman greg steube filing impeachment articles today. congressman, will this ramp up the impeachment inquiry in. >> i think it could, and and i think it's certainly going to sharpen, you know, our investigations. i mean, you've already seen the focus really hone in over the last couple months, in particular about joe biden and his interactions with hunter biden this in these transactions. but today the certainly is a step back particularly for those of us who care about transparency because it doesn't look, it doesn't smell right either. elizabeth: we've got a major fight breaking out. government regulations say, andrew, special counsels are supposed to come from if outside the government. both a.g. garland and wise, they told congress weiss had total charging authority or in the hunter biden case, but now he

needs special counsel status and why? and who does he now report to? andrew, these are are major problems exploding right now in d.c.. >> there's always been ambiguity about the authority that weiss had to investigate both hunter biden and people closely affiliated with hunter biden to include joe biden. the appointment of weiss as special counsel is improper under the federal regulations because it's supposed to be somebody with who actually the is outside of the government. and when you're outside of the government, that gives you the autonomy to be able to investigate things fairly. weiss remains an employee of the department of justice, remains subordinate to merrick garland and to the president of the united states. this isn't the independence that you think of when you assign a special counsel, and it's just plain wrong. les. elizabeth: yeah. we have, you know, david weiss also separate from all of this in a court filing saying that the hunter biden tax evasion case could go to trial.

either in d.c. or in the central district of california. so there's also problems though with that case. let's watch irs whistleblowers testifying about the political meddling you talked about. we're going to talk also about what they're saying about what hunter biden -- they did not charge hunter biden with. he should have been charged with. watch this. >> that was not the case. it appeared to me based on what i experienced that the u.s. attorney in delaware in our investigation was constantly hamstrung the, limited and marginalized by doj officials as well as other u.s. attorneys. >> the justice department allowed the president's political appointees to weigh many on whether to charge the president's son after matthew graves, appoint if by president biden, refused to bring charges in march 2022, i watched weiss tell a room full of irs and fbi senior leaders on october 7th, 2022, that he was not the deciding person on whether charges were filed. that was my red line.

elizabeth: so, congressman fry, here's the issue. the irs whistleblower, shapley, testified that they didn't, thes should have brought tax evasion charges for 2014, that hunter biden didn't file a lot of personal income on those tax returns from burisma, that he filed a false return for 2019. those two counts were 2017 and 2018. so already we have, it's seemingly misfeasance in the charging out of the doj, out of the irs against hunter biden. >> i think you're exactly right. and the only thing that has remained consistent in this entire saga is the irs whistleblowers' testimony, both of them. and in that room where u.s. attorney weiss said that he didn't have any authority, since then his story has changed that he was limited to delaware, that he had ultimate authority. this also flies in direct

contradiction to merrick garland who testified that he had full authority. but now, now all of a sudden he really has that authority. if after the statute of limitations has run, after you've tipped off the secret service about tax documents in a storage locker, after you have really impeded this investigation and in the allow these investigators -- elizabeth: well, what are you guys going to do about it in what are you going to do to counteract this? i mean, because seemingly this is going to affect house probes. andrew, i'm going to get to you in just a second. james comer is getting more bank records on shell companies. is this -- if weiss steps in, it could block all that. i mean, jordan wants 11 transcribed interviews with hunter biden, doj, fbi, irs and secret service officials. weiss still has to testify. are you guys going to call all those guys in a potential impeachment probe. >> >> i think at least with the 11 people and the transcribed interviews and u.s. attorney wise himself, we still expect

him to come testify -- weiss -- we want him to come testify, and if he won't, that confirms our worst suspicions which is where, in my opinion, these things ramp up dramatically. we don't know his stance right now, but weiss has already anticipated prior to this appointment as special counsel that he would come in and talk. so i'm at least hoping right now that he's going to continue to do that. and if not, then that's going to guide our next steps -- elizabeth: andrew -- >> that would be deeply concerning to me where this thing is headed. elizabeth: so, andrew, wrap it all together because now the 2024 race, now we have reports coming in that joe biden is negotiating with terms of how he's going to talk to his special counsel on his classified documents case. that's robert hur. we have a hunter biden special counsel, and we have trump indictments. this might be the wildest u.s. 2024 race in u.s. history. so, andrew, wrap this all together. where does this, where do you

think this is going to go? >> well, we have to take it day by day, and i think what we see today is that weiss is compromisedded. weiss is compromised because several weeks ago he virtually skip into the courthouse hand in hand with hunter biden's legal team, cutting a sweetheart deal that eliminated, basically, all of the major investigations here. so until we get real investigation into the real crimes, we have real problems. elizabeth: this sounds like, you know, a lot of gop lawmakers -- final word, russell -- that this is basically just a cover-up to blockade the house gop getting closer and closer to corruption involving the president. that's the allegation. final word. >> no, i think you just hit the nail on the head. i mean, we've done more in six months than news law enforcement agencies have done -- than these law enforcement agencies have done in the six years. and finally when you start to see the full picture, a u.s. attorney who is either incompetent or corrupt or both is appointed as special counsel

in violation really of u.s. law from what we're seeing. so it is deeply troubling and, again, to andrew's point, we're going to the take this day by day -- elizabeth: not just day by day, are you going to fight it? is. >> oh, yeah. elizabeth: okay. we'll fine out more in the coming days. congressman, andrew, hanks for joining us. good to see you. okay, viewers, we're wondering, do you remember this? watch. >> this is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care costs, tackle the climate crisis and promote energy security. elizabeth: okay. whoa, wait a second. we've got news on this. let's bring in economist peter st. only with the heritage foundation. now president biden admits in utah that his inflation reduction act doesn't cut inflation? saying he, quote, wished he hadn't called it that? what do you think? >> you know, i wish he hadn't called it that either, because it was a lie. this was a crony handout of a

trillion dollars overwhelmingly to, you know, the between lobby. -- green lobby. there was nothing in this that was ever going to reduce inflation. even the cbo, who works for congress, said it was going to have no impact on inflation, and now we're seeing that c pix, you know, it's been coming down, inflation's been coming down for a number of months now, now it's on the upswing again because what was bringing it down in the first place was energy. and a lot of that joe biden bought it by draining the strategic petroleum reserve. now, that is not supposed to be used for buying, you know, political polls or for buying an election. that's suppose to be used in an emergency, but joe biden has been draining it. now he's done draining it, saudi arabia's cutting production, now energy prices are coming up, that's bringing inflation back up. so so much for the miracle bill of joe biden there. elizabeth: you know, clinton and obama official larry summers, treasury official, he says it's premature to take a victory lap

on inflation. he also slammed bidenomics as increasingly dangerous. it folks -- doesn't do enough focus on global trade in order to bring, you know, money into the u.s. you know, so when you look at all this, we have republicans at the iowa state fair, you know, going after joe biden. we've got a lot of voter polls saying the u.s. is on the wrong track. he wants four more years. we've got columnists like victor davis hansen saying stop the madness. voter polls, voters say it's time to to restore the rule of law, stop the crime wave, balance the budget, stop the bureaucratic state, reestablish civic education teaching students to love america. that -- so it seems like voters are saying they want to go back to that time. >> yeah. voters want biden to roll up his sleeves and do the hard work, the actual stuff that will bring back american jobs, american manufacturing. you know, what this administration is focused on so far is these billion dollar sort of headline pr opportunities

where heir handing this money -- they're handing this money to specific companies, to cronies, i'd argue. what we need to do instead is focus on the little guy, the little, you know, family manufacturers, a workshop in wisconsin that's going urn because they've got too much regulation are, too much taxes, too much uncertainty, you know? the economy whip sawing. and this administration is not focused on that because it is chasing the headlines. elizabeth: all right, peter, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me on, liz. elizabeth: still ahead, congressman jeff van i drew, buddy carter, former trump attorney alan dershowitz, joe concha and the washington times' charlie hurt. there's a lot of issues coming in, a lot of news. trump's team slamming special counsel jack smith for scheduling trump's trial before the iowa caucuses. trump's calling this election interference. and reports that even twitter tried to fight jack smith's secret probe of trump's twitter account account as unlawful.

and sam bankman-fried, he heads back to jail for witness tampering, one of the worst financial frauds in u.s. history. he was tampering with the star witness, caroline ellison, sending her secret diary to the new york times and much more on the hunter biden special counsel. it's a controversy, it's being called a political cover-up. will the house republicans ramp up faster impeachment inquiries to counteract that? we've got a hot hoe for you tonight. stay right there -- hot show for you tonight. >> i don't trust it, i don't think the american people trust it. i think that this was meant to be a distraction. it's not a distraction. i think the bidens are on a sinking ship. ♪ ♪ what do we always say, son? liberty mutual customizes your car insurance... so you only pay for what you need. that's my boy. ♪ stay off the freeways! only pay for what you need.

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certainly is a free speech issue. and the fact that you have, expect fact that donald trump is not just running for public office, he's running for the highest public office in the land, and he's the front-runner for his party far and away, by double-digit margins is absolutely a free peach issue. but -- speech issue. but it sort of, in a lot of ways whether they manage to muzzle president trump or not, it almost doesn't matter because, you know, he does such a good job of winning people over when he is being persecuted. and i think that whatever they throw at him and whatever judges and whatever cases in cahoots with whatever prosecutors go after donald trump, it's going to help him in the public eye not only among republicans, but also among regular voters who have real concerns about their lives and real concerns about the direction of the country right now. and this is not one of their top concerns. it's not even among their top

hundred concerns. elizabeth: yeah. >> they're more concerned about a how to pay the bills. elizabeth: you know what's interesting, the fight about this, special counsel jack smith had 28 months, more than 2 years, to do all this. now he's asking the trial for a rocket docket, he wants the trial to start january 2nd right before the iowa caucuses. and it's going to -- and he wants it to enbefore super tuesday in march. i mean, trump's saying that's election interference, and it's also a due prostitutional issue for trump to be -- constitutional issue for trump to be able to prepare for these special indictments. >> in the first place, a speedy trial is something that is afforded to the accused, not the state. secondly, although the i do sort of, you know, i get the point that, you know, if you're a prosecutor, you don't want these things to drag on forever. but waiting this after the election is not letting it drag on forever. the only reason jack smith wants to do this in january is because he is so terrified that donald

trump is going to go on and become president of the united states, and jack smith want wants to do everything in his power to either prevent that from happening or damage trump so badly that in jack smith's twisted mind donald trump won't be able to win the election. and if that's not election interference, i don't -- then there's no such thing as election interference. and the idea that he wants to take that decision out of the hands of the people and put it in his hands and try to confine it to a jury of, you know, in d.c. in order to prevent the rest of america from making this important decision, i think, tells you all you immediate to know about jack smith. elizabeth: here's the other thing too, the reports that special counsel jack smith secretly probed trump's twitter account, getting twitter to not tell trump he was doing that. he hit twitter with a gag order, got a judge to fine twitter $350,000 for not complying. you know, the trump team is saying this is a government fishing expedition into my

twitter messages. smith raises none of this in his indictment. how come twitter could not tell trump the government was seizing his twitter info? this is private activity. reports that twitter for months argued that they wanted to tell trump, but this violated trump's first amendment and the stored communications act. >> right. elizabeth: but then you've got d.c. circuit courts ruling in favor of the justice department, and then jack smith is admitting, reports that he admitted that he included inaccurate information for the secret gag order, that he, quote, errantly used as a predicate that trump would be a flight risk. >> and the flight risk thing is so absurd, it's ridiculous on its face. but what we have seen from the beginning is prosecutors and the dojing pulling out all the stops and using all of these crazy ways of going after trump. and when i say from the beginning, i mean from back in 20216, even before he won the first election. they've been going after him like this with this crazy stuff

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elizabeth: okay, let's take a break from the action in d.c. joining us now from house energy, it's congressman buddy carter. congressman, it's great to see you. you know, the white house is increasingly getting involved in debates about biden calling a climate emergency. let's watch this. >> we've seen the president this week focusing on climate. we've seen how it has devastated our country, especially this summer people are feeling it. well -- will the president declare a national emergency on climate, john? >> the president hasn't made a decision yet on declaring a national emergency on climate, poppy, but for all intents and purposes, he's treating this with all the due gravity and the seriousness that the climate crisis zephyrs. elizabeth: congressman, what are you hearing? they're talking about hawaii is on fire, maui, 55 dead. moaa scientists warning record hot ocean temperatures going to trigger hurricanes. so so what would happen in a climate emergency? >> well, i don't know what would

happen, but instead of a climate emergency what joe biden should be doing is signing h.r. 1, lowering the energy costs bill. that's what we need. look, i believe in climate change, i believe it's cyclical, i believe we're going through one of those cycles now. i'm old enough to remember the early '70s when we thought we were in another ice age. yes, this is sick hi call, and, yes, we need to address it in certain way, but to declare a climate crisis, you know, i think is shortsighted. look at our economy right now. you can make the argument, and i think legitimately, that what has happened in our economy is a direct result of the biden administration declaring war on fossil fuels day one into this administration causing an increase in gas prices, causing an increase in inflation, causingen increase in interest rates, the mess we have in our economy right now. elizabeth: people and economists and market watchdogs have said natural gas is why our gses, carbon emissions went down, that

the u.s. does clearance energy with natural gas. cleaner energy with natural gas. i with bev ceded our -- but we've ceded control back to opec +, and now we're producing more than 2 million barrels a day less than we used to, and the u.s. needs to be energy independent as it was under trump. the energy department saying, it projects production's going to go up, but we're not there yet. >> right. and, you know, look, we all understand that energy independence is necessary for our national security. just like pharmaceutical independence, just like food independence. all of those are necessary for our national security. we all understand that. and we should be subscribing to an all of the above type energy strategy. i'm very proud, by the way, of the state of georgia. we just a couple weeks ago, we started up the first nuclear reactor in this country in over 30 years.

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elizabeth: okay, we've got an update on house republicans releasing documents spelling i out how the biden family got $20 million and counting in cash from foreign business deals. the question is, where did the money go? fox news congressional correspondent chad pergram live on capitol hill with the story. chad. >> reporter: liz, good afternoon. 20 million is how much biden family businesses received cover all from interests abroad. republicans are trying to unwind this, and that's why republicans

continue their inquiry. >> i think it's a priority for the entire house conference. we have three detailed oversight investigations going on. these are all priorities for the house republicans to complete our work, and we're going to follow exactly where the paper trail leads. finish and take every legal action that we need to. >> reporter: let's explore the biden family tree, as in the money tree. public records reveal the president's brother, jim biden, scored $360,000 through one shell company. hallie biden, widow of the president's son beau and later romantic partner of hunter, collected $35,000. hunter biden directly received $360,000 from robinson walker llc. but companies associated with hunter biden snared around 30 million. this is why some gop members are ready for impeachable. impeachment. >> we need to start an inquiry, and we're going to drag him in

or drag his people in and get more information and, hopefully, we will have an inquiry that, you know, broadens the scope of what james comer's committee can do and let the american people judge. let them see. >> reporter: republicans believe the appointment of david weiss as special counsel for hunter biden is an effort to stonewall their investigations. gop members still want weiss to testify this fall, but it's unclear if that will happen. liz in. elizabeth: chad pergram, thank you so much. good to see you on this friday night. let's bring in congressman jeff van drew from house judiciary. the federal law unambiguous. potential counsels are supposed to come from outside the government, not inside the doj like u.s. attorneys like david weiss. so you guys, i think you have standing to fight this to continue oversight, ways and means and judiciary probes into the biden family because, you know, as soon as comer was saying ooh i'm going to subpoena joe biden, ooh i'm going to subpoena hunter biden, then you

have, you know, u.s. attorney david weiss named as special counsel. how are you guys going to fight this? is are you going to continue with an impeachment inquiry in we've got greg steube filing articles on that today. >> absolutely. we should absolutely do an impeachment inquiry. this is is as corrupt as everything else that they do, excuse my -- i've been doing a lot of talking today -- and they deserve to go through this process and to have real justice. he cannot be the special counsel. it's against state statute. so we've got to fight hard on this. what they're trying to do is be real cute here and real corrupt as usual and say, well, we really can't give you anything because there's an ongoing investigation. they've had this for five years. they're not going to do anything. we need the impeachment inquiry to find out what's really going on, we need the added tools and ability that you get when you have an impeachment inquiry to fine out the truth. we're getting there, we're close, and there's already

enough to move forward with this. elizabeth: so what power do you have to call in witnesses if the potential counsel says, huh-uh, i've got to call that witness in? >> that's what we're going too find out, and we're going to do everything we can. ing first of all, that's the other good thing about the inquiry, because that's separate from some of this other part of it. so i think through the impeachment inquire arely, again, with those added tools that you have, the increased investigatory power, that you can move forward and actually call these witnesses -- elizabeth: yeah, this is -- >> that's what we need to find out. elizabeth: it's separation of powers. congress has the power to oversee impeachment inquiries, you know, the executive branch has power over the judiciary, so it's that constitutional fight. you know, congressman, what a we're seeing with the documents and what devon archer testified, this is how close it's getting, that president biden did sit down with russian billionaire ye lain that ballot with arena and hunter biden in the spring of 2014 after she wired $3.5

million to hunter biden's shell company that february. >> yep. no question about it, and that's why it's been hands off of her. her husband was the former mayor of moscow. they are ec e reamly, she is an extremely wealthy woman, probably the wealthiest oligarch in russia, and joe biden himself was meeting with her. every other oligarch in russia got publicly sanctioned by biden, not her. she was left alone. i mean, this stinks, you know? joe biden literally has become a merchandise, and hunter biden is the salesman. it's sick and it's un-american and it's wrong, and it really, truly angers me. and to think how arrogant that they are that that they believed that they could come up with this phony special prosecutor, you know, special counsel, rather, is nonsense because it's not in state statute. they can't do it that way. they need somebody -- elizabeth: yeah, it's not in

federal law. again, federal law says the special counsel's supposed to come from outside the government. >> yes. i innocent federal, i'm sorry. -- meant federal, i'm sorry. elizabeth: watch jonathan turley go after media. come on, watch. >> sure, hunter biden was selling influence and and access, but it was an illusion, the media is finally, and there was no proof that joe biden got a direct deposit to his account. that's just ridiculous are. obviously, all of these payments benefit joe biden. stst going to the biden family fund. being a crook doesn't mean you're a moron, and until take a moron to do a direct deposit into an account to the biden family or send him a zelle transfer. the bidens are very good at this. they've been in the influence peddling business for decades. two dozen different shell companies, accounts that have no discernible purpose except to hide the money transfers going to the biden family.

elizabeth: what do you think, congressman? you've got 10 seconds. >> i think it's true. i think it's there. i think we have to go after it. devon archer toll us that 20 different times joe biden was on the phone with them. i think that joe biden went over to ukraine, told them if they didn't fire the prosecutor that was investigating burisma, that they wouldn't get any money. it is the influence peddling and, as i said, joe biden was the merchandise, and hunter was salesman. elizabeth: got it. congressman van drew, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. elizabeth: this hot debate coming up, pulitzer prize-winning historian david garrow, he's resetting the their thetive about the rise of barack obama saying he manufactured his own persona. plus, much more on that and hunter biden, the story there. david weiss named special counsel in the hunter probe. again, we're going to debate why his naming goes against federal law. that it violates federal law. let's check in with our friends dagen and sean. sean's been doing double duty

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five minutes when he ran for president, and before that he was a state senator, and before that he was a community organizer. but with it was his ability to electrify audiences through his speeches and through his way to connect with people that got him to the presidency. so the fact that that may all be not really him is quite surprising and, unfortunately, about, i don't know, a 15 years too late, elizabeth. elizabeth: yeah. let's listen to david garrow. by the way, he's left of center. he's a jimmy carter guy. he's not a right-wing conservative. watch david garrow. >> okay. >> there's no resemblance between their lives today and who they were 20 years ago. and when i was doing most of my interviewing across black chicago in, like, 2010, 2011, to 2012, even then folks could see this sort of desire to hang with celebrities thing building in the white house. some of the folks weren't surprised that barack was going

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>> with me now, he is so smart attorney alan dershowitz. good to have you back on the show. you're sitting around the kitchen table kicking the surround, special counsel jack smith. he can see people saying he had 28 months to investigate trump but now is asking for the trial date of the 2020 case beset before the iowa caucuses in january, what do you make of all that, why does he want a rocket daca so fast like that. >> he wants influence the election he does not wanted to occur after the election at all have no influence. it's highly political i wrote in my book that there are efforts all over from people to try to prevent trauma from running and that is the goal. the goal is to get trump from stopping them from running if the child takes place after the election. he stopped them from running if the trial takes place before the

election. he wants a january day in probably be compromised february or march and another trial in may and the entire campaign will be taken up by criminal trials. i never thought, and get to be 85 years old and a couple of weeks and i never thought i'd live to see the day would a political campaign in america is going to turn on who is the worst criminal whether trump is the worst criminal or the biden group is the worst criminal, the americans want to hear about the economy and foreign policy and they want to hear about immigration they don't want to hear about criminal trials being conducted during a campaign it's what the constitution set out. liz: what did you think about special counsel david weiss be named today in the hunter biden probe. >> i think it's a terrible mistake when you're going after and investigating the sun of the sitting president, you.every i and cross every t and you don't started by violating the regulation the regulation don't

say they come from outside work should come from that side. he says he shall. that is mandatory. and if hunter biden wanted to he could challenge this but is not going to because they have a common interest in having this case handled by the man who made the sweetheart deal that i predicted would be thrown out and has been thrown out. the appearance of justice is so important in a case like this, you don't started by violating the law which is exactly what merrick garland did today. liz: can congress challenge it? >> yes that they should not accept an answer well into an investigation. too bad, the constitution says that congress has the power to check and balance the executive branch. when the executive branch violates her own regulation and violates the law that's when congress should step in, they should demand that garland and weiss appear before the

committee and if they refuse they should issue subpoenas and taken to court. liz: can be tossed out and they should continue with the probes with biden family corruption allegations. your final word? >> they should appointed a regular independent counsel outside of the government, somebody new could work off the work that 30 been done to have an independent i looking at it. this will not have an independent either trying to justify why he made the sweetheart deal that the court throughout. liz: alan dershowitz, thank you for your analysis and insight. we'll have you back on. have a good weekend. tune in monday night donald trump bowyer, breitbart finance editor, gregg jarrett and much, much more. thank you for watching "the evening edit". now it's time to send it over to the bottom line. you have a lot of headlines to deal with ♪ ♪