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a brand new biography delivers bombshell disclosures on the anger and rage of president biden behind the scenes at the white house. we've got it. and this new debate, age limits for politicians. senator mitch mcconnell freetzs again at a press conference. also this story, will the white house -- will the house gop step it up and fast track a biden impeachment inquiry like nancy pelosi did for trump? and this breaking news coming in, sanctuary city los angeles now moving to criminally investigate and sue texas and its governor, greg abbott, for busting illegal -- buzzing illegal immigrants to l.a. the sanctimony of yet another sanctuary city objecting when illegal immigrants actually show is up. also the biden white house message to cities, we broke it, you own it. i'm elizabeth macdonald, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪

elizabeth: joining me now, look who's here, former arkansas governor mike huckabee. first, this story: should there be age limits for politicians? it's good to see you, governor. because everybody was pained to see mitch mcconnell freeze again in a press conference, second time in a month. what do you think? >> i don't think it's about age. chuck grassley's 89. he still does push-ups and runs several miles a day. so it's the not age. look at clint eastwood, he's in his 90s, still directing, writing and acting if movies. it's about capacity, it's it's about ability to function. it was painful to watch mitch mcconnell freeze up for the third time here since his fall this summer. now, he may be medically okay, that's really a decision for his doctors, but at some point all of us have to decide are we capable of still presenting our very best, and when we're being funded by the taxpayers, it's not just a matter of, gee, our company might ask us to step

aside, it's that we have an obligation to the taxpayers to step the aside when wen't can't do our job. and let me make this quick point, we require airline pilots to leave the cockpit at age 65 in this country. when many of them are, quite frankly, at their peak of performance and they have 30,000 hours or more of flying experience and far better to be in the cockpit than somebody who just got out of flight school and might have 100 hours. but we force them to get out. why? because we say that we're afraid they may not be able to perform. maybe it's time we look at that for people who are in office and if they can't do their jobs whether it's fetterman, feinstein, mcconnell, joe biden, count matter what party, maybe it's time to say gotta go. elizabeth: jimmy carter recently said i hope there's an age limit. he said he could not have handled the presidency at age 80. look at what democratic lawmakers like dean phillips are saying, they're calling for term

limits, saying this is elder abuse. but it's different from term limits and it's different about age limits, what you're saying, right? it's about capacity. >> yeah. and i'm for term limits. i don't think anybody ought to get a job for life. i don't think there should be congressional pensions, period. they ought to get social security and that's it. and they should have a limit on how long they can serve, then go home and live under the laws they pass for the rest are of us to live under. but ultimately, there is a decision that has to be made, and it should be made by hair families -- their families and, ultimately, by the voters. but this is, again, it's painful to see this. i appreciate mitch mcconnell's long service and some of the really excellent things he's done. but when i see this, i'm thinking, you know, either take a leave of absence or call it a day. elizabeth: you know, governor, voters and americans are concerned about the direction of the country, right? we've got multiple polls saying 7 out of 10 thinks the the u.s. is on the wrong track. so who is going to lead the

nation into prosperity, security and safety? we have these bombshells from a new biography by franklin ford saying that president biden basically angly is complaining -- angrily complaining that his white house staff, quote, treats him like a toddler, and they often have to walk back false claims that biden makes in public. that makes him angry. plus, he's really upset and angry about the media coverage of his botchedded exit out of afghanistan. what do you say, governor? >> well, if he hadn't have botched the exit out of afghanistan, maybe people wouldn't complain about it. and he wouldn't be treated like a toddler if he didn't behave and talk like one. i've got a 2-year-old grandson, and sometimes he makes more sense than joe biden does, and joe's reading off a teleprompter. poor little teddy, he doesn't even have a teleprompter, but he gets his point across. for joe to ball up because people are leading him on and off the stage, the the reason they're doing is -- it is

because he doesn't know how to get on and off without somebody leading him. elizabeth: the book says he's resenting his aides for creating the impression that they have to clean up after his message saying things like putin's got to go, was john f. kennedy ever treated like that, he's saying. let's get your reaction to white house press secretary karine jean-pierre, she's hitting back at a reporter asking about biden's light schedule. >> -- excessed today saying the president has told aides in private that he felt tired, and that's explaining why there are less -- >> so you think we've had those because of this excerpt? >> not because of the excerpt, the book is suggesting the president tells aides he's tire- >> but that that's in the excerpt. >> and that's why he only does public events before 10 a.m.. elizabeth: what do you think,

governor? >> not ridiculous at all, maybe sometimes he gets up at the crack of noon and by two the he's worn out and calls it a day. of course it's the reasonable to ask those questions, and they ought to keep asking them. elizabeth: got it. governor huckabee, thanks for joining us. we'll have you back on again soon. more bombshells in the hunter biden investigation. mark weideling, the attorney for gary shapley, irs whistleing blower, he says a top the doj official did e-mail him about possibly probing doj officials obstructing the investigation, but then he dropped that. fox news' david spunt with much more. >> reporter: hi, elizabeth. the attorney for irs whistleblower gary shapley says back in april, one day after he spoke to a career official here at the department of justice, actually, the top career official who's worked in both the trump and biden administration and assured weidel that his client would be

protected, he claims the the same official met next day with david weiss and chris clark, hunter biden's attorney in this case. gary shapley was the first person to come forward publicly, hold up his hand and say, listen, i'm a whistleblower, and i see problems with this investigation. shapley claims it was slow-walked. mark weidel says he talked to a top doj official, u.s. attorney david weiss -- now special counsel -- met with the defense attorney at the doj. he also says those promises about whistleblower protection for his client suddenly just kiss appeared. disappeared. >> about two short weeks, my interactions with mr. wine schumer went from the office of deputy attorney general would like to hear about any wrongdoing or allegations of improper conduct to just two weeks later, go talk to mr. weiss. >> the attorney general merrick

garland will testify before the house foreign oversight hearing, expect hunter biden to be a big if not the biggest topic of that hearing. liz,meanwhile, the fight over the proposed diversion agreement to help hunter biden avoid jail time on a federal gun charge is heating up. the federal judge in delaware is giving both sides until september 6th for an update there. hunter biden accused of lying on a federal gun form. his attorneys say this diversion agreement is valid because it was sign by both sides, but special counsel david weiss saidst it's completely void, it does not exist anymore, and weiss indicated he may recharge hunter biden in either washington, d.c. or california where he lives. lots of updates. >> reporter: david spunt, thank you so much. let's bring in from house oversight, congressman russell fry. congressman, your reaction to this report. is this key to the a potential house impeachment inquiry? >> i think it is, and i think it's, you know, i mean, it's time to do that. i think when we return, you

know, the evidence is so compelling that you just can't ignore it anymore. there's a lot of things that we still don't know for sure, but what we do know is this pattern of conduct by biden family that is really egregious. and then you've got this conduct on the back eninwith the department of justice -- end with the department of justice with the slow walking of charges and removing whistleblowers from the case and the sweetheart plea deal of a lifetime. this is not a prosecutor, this is not what a prosecutor does. they sound more like a defense counsel. certainly at lot of questions still immediate to be answered, but i think it is the time for impeachment inquiry. elizabeth: so mark lidle, gary shapley's lawyer, is basically saying in this associate deputy attorney general did call him in april to talk about, talking to gary shapley about possibly probing his obstruction allegations that doj officials on victimmed the hunter biden case d obstructed the case, but then he drop it after he talked

to hunter biden's lawyer and david weiss. >> no, i think that is rah really the crux of this. you've got this fishing expedition where he comes in, but then there's no, there's no follow-up whatsoever. and the next day he meets with the defense counsel? it wasn't until mr. shapley's lawyer saw that in a news briefing that they realized the timeline of what had occurred. and here mr. shapley was removed as an agent on the case, and the next day they offered that sweetheart deal with no charges for hunter biden, a diversion, and a blanket immunity. elizabeth: yeah, well -- >> so on the one hand, you've got what's happening with the bidens, and on the other you've got what is really going on at the department the of justice. elizabeth: congressman, will house speaker mccarthy, there's reports coming in he's going to do what former speaker nancy pelosi did to fast track the first impeachment of former purpose over ukraine. pelosi did it without a floor vote, no floor vote. she got it through and then

waited a month to hold the floor vote. that's what kevin mccarthy, is that what the house gop's going to do? >> i don't know the basic mechanics of how, if that's voted or not, but it seems like speaker mccarthy are ready for an impeachment inquiry. i think most of the conference if not all at this point should be ready for impeachment inquiry, and i think the facts dictate that's where we go, that we need, you know, certainly more information. but this is, this rises to the level of seriousness at this point that we owe it to the american people to explore this further. elizabeth: got it. congressman fry, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, liz. elizabeth: good to see you. still ahead, we have fox news' brian kilmeade, retired sergeant betsy brantner smith and caitlin sutherland from the watchdog group suing to find out about transportation secretary pete buttigieg repeatedly frying around -- flying around the world to talk about climate change. we've got more on the breaking

news, sanctuary city los angeles plans to criminally investigate and sue texas and its governor, greg abbott, for busing migrants to los angeles. it's yet another sanctuary city objecting when the illegal immigrants actually show up. and is we've to got steve forbes, critics saying president biden is breaking a 222-year -- 22-year tradition, observing the 9/11 anniversary in alaska to he can make a trip to vietnam to talk about climate change. that's coming up on with the the evening edit." ♪ for moms, from centrum. ♪ this new mom ♪ ♪ here i go ♪

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because so much damage to the house. half the house almost collapsed, you know? and you wonder what's going to happen. lightning struck at home on a little lake just outside of our home. not a lake, a big pond. and it hit a wire or that that came up underneath our home. to make a long story short, i almost lost my wife, my '67 corvette and my cat. elizabeth: what do you think, steve? [laughter] >> well, just shows this man is out of it, that he's not only losing it, but also utterly insensitive. doing that, comparing a kitchen fire -- no one likes a kitchen fire -- the to the disaster that hit hawaii, maui, is just preposterous. and he does this all the time. i'm surprised he didn't say he wasn't a firefighter or fought forest fires or something like that. he's already are, as you know, a long distance truck driver, civil rights activist, former

coal miner and lords knows what else. but in terms of being a true president, this man has been a failure. elizabeth: you know, steve, it just feels like an x-ray blanket on the national consciousness, you know what i mean? here he goes again, there the he goes again, right? i mean, the associated press reported in 2004 his kitchen fire was under control within 20 minutes. so why does he always think that making it about himself appears relatable to the voter when it doesn't? it just comes off as offputting? >> well, it's offputting and also shows utter insecurity that he doesn't feel he can connect, and he can't, and this is proof of it. a kitchen fire's not the same as what hit hawaii, but he does this all the time. it's pathological. elizabeth: all right. so this other story. critics are saying, you know, president biden on 9/11, the announcement came out, he's not going to go to any of the three 9/11 attack sites. instead, he's going to be at a military base in the alaska after he goes to vietnam to talk about climate change.

everything's going to be about climate change? now we have ford dropping two major auto lines including one that's very popular. it's not the ford expedition, it's the, it's the ford escape. just to go all electric, you know what i mean? it just feels like a top-down push to force things on the american people that they don't want. >> well, it's a form of tyranny. what they're doing with every convenience starting with gas stoves, dishwashers, shower heads and everything else, everything is now under assault by these far-left regulators. they're doing it with the economy. if they actually followed through on this ev kick of theirs, you know, 10 or 15% of the market for evs would be natural, but this forcing of it, it would destroy the auto industry, would throw this country and the world into a depression. no way physically you can do what they want to do, make us all drive evs. the infrastructure structure's not there, the mining is not

there, until be a disaster. this is typical. and on vietnam, we have real relations, an important ally with vietnam, amazingly, against china. he could have done that trip anytime. but he chose to -- and i think they scheduled it and then somebody said, oh, nerve's coming up, and -- 9/11's coming up, and that's the kind of incompetence they have both at the top and the staff level, and it finally hit them just before he goes to vietnam, oh, we're blundering here. vietnam will take him anytime. elizabeth: you know, we had afghanistan gold star families saying he repeatedly looked at his watch when those body bags were coming home. we have concerns about terrorists being caught at the border, criminal illegal aliens being caught at the border, an isis-connected human smuggler bringing a dozen uzbekistannys in to the u.s. there's concerns the fbi is investigating that. is it good enough to hold a moment of silence on 9/11 in alaska? former presidents obama and

george w. bush, they also skipped 9/11 ceremonies and held moments of silence. do you think that's going to be good enough? >> no. i think at a time when the world is getting more unsafe, i think republican -- remembering what happened on 9/11 is more important than ever before and reminding us what an uncertain, cruel and unstable world we live in, and 9/11s can happen again. not in the specifics on that, but in terms of threats to our security is. elizabeth: got it. steve forbes, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. elizabeth: we've got this story, san francisco city commissioner says -- sends a scathing resignation letter to democrat mayor london breed ripping into san francisco's squalid conditions, crime and drug markets. and this news coming in, sanctuary city los angeles now moving to criminally investigate and sue texas and its governor, greg abbott, for busing illegal immigrants to l.a. more from sanctuary cities

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elizabeth: in new york. >> 100,000 plus. so california sees this. by the way, they're a sanctuary state. so if you come there, you're allowed to stay. what is the problem? we don't hear about new mexico's border, we don't hear about california's border because they let people in, and they've got democratic governors. so now we see that there is a problem there, and they have a chance to maybe go blue state-red state, and it makes me think too this is pure politics. this is gavin newsom saying i want the national spotlight back on me. but he doesn't know our country has move on. we no longer look at a or border problem as anti-hispanic. we don't dislike people who are refugees. we have an organized way of looking at immigration like everything else. this is not the way to do it. and even if you're the most liberal person, you see the homeless situation taking over hotels, taking over gyms, taking over fields. you say, okay, these are are american fields, these are illegal immigrants. we are using our taxpayer dollars to feed them, clothe

them, wash their clothes, there's something wrong here. i think they're fighting an old fight, and i think california is not even going to win the majority of californians. blithe blithe critics said -- elizabeth: critics said nobody's forcing the aliens to get on the bus, right? >> old argument. we used to hear how were they manipulated, who show up with a clipboard, and now it's so obvious that they want to to come to a bigger city and leave small town texas and arizona. nothing against them, but there's not a lot of accommodations. guess what you have in new york? you've got everything. you can get around, you can walk around, you can eat. now we provide accommodations, so you're out of the desert in arizona, you know, away from small towns in texas. let's elizabeth you know, it's -- elizabeth: it's sanctuary cities getting upset e when they actually take them up on their virtue signaling and show up. let's get your to the white house now saying we are fixing the border, biden's border plan is working. watch this. >> reporter: why aren't you

guys stopping the flow at the border? >> we are stopping the flow at the border. if anything, what the president has been able to do on his own without the help of republicans in congress, something that he had to do on his own, again, because republicans refuse to give the funding necessary to deal with the situation, a broken immigration system that has been broken for decades. elizabeth: you know, biden has been in d.c. for 50 years, since the nixon era. and the answer now is more taxpayer pending, and now the biden white house is saying to new york this'll fix your labor problems. that's what the messaging is. and, you know, nothing says bubble world more than the white house and the homeland security secretary saying, you know what? citizen states like new york, this is your problem. you're not handling the border that we broke correctly. your operational, structural issues are the reason that you're not doing it right here in new york city. >> what i find fascinating, the argument you just made you see a democratic president say you have money, you know, you have a labor problem, fix it.

then you have a democratic mayor saying we've got way too many people here, we can't handle it. and if we give them the right to work, if you think 100,000 is a lot, do you realize the magnet9 that would be? you could come to america, you can stay for free, we give you a menu to eat three meals a day, we wash your clothes and give you a job? why would anyone stay in any other country outside norway, sweden and maybe france? elizabeth: have you, you know, you bring up overseas. do you see other borders abused like the u.s. border is? >> well, i mean, i was in italy, they do have somewhat of a problem. they were saying they have an issue, but their issue is the collapse of the middle east and people, legitimate refugees trying to get there and people saying we don't have accommodations. we have -- that is a drop in the bucket compared to 4-6 million people, new york in three years,

$15 billion, already overdrawn. the very successful are so overtaxed, they are relieving. companies finding other places to go, trillions leaving california and new york because they don't -- they're not in the business of giving away their money. so this is a, this is a whirlpool of doom for the major red -- excuse me, blue states and these citieses. and i think this just exasperates the whole thing by having this weak border. and what gets me most, liz, is the selling off of that wall for pennies on the dollar, for scrap metal when they could help stop -- elizabeth: trump's border wall, you mean, right? >> the border wall, and that would help the border patrol and at least do a little bit to show an effort to stop the flow overwhelming democratic cities causing democratic mayors strife. so this is a democrat problem really started by democrats, and thousand they're mad at each other. -- now they're mad at each other. elizabeth: thanks for joining us. be sure to catch one nation with

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elizabeth: okay, this new development, small business owners literally turning to a shocking solution to protect themselves against rising crime. fox news' dan springer in seattle with the details. dan. >> reporter: liz, we are starting to see an increase in companies that are turning up

the voltage in their security game, 7,000 volts to be exact. electric fences are going up all across the country in response to crime. if tacoma, washington, property crime is nearly triple the national rate, you have a 1 in 15 chance of becoming a victim. a tool and equipment rental business was getting ripped off an average of 2-# 3 times a week, and that's what motion cameras and barbed wire fences were brought in for. in december he had an electric fence installed and since then, not a single break-in. 100% effective. >> it is desperation. we're desperate to keep our products where our products are meant to be, have it here for our customers so we can make money and go home to our families. >> reporter: the charge is being led by car dealerships and equipment rental companies which have their valuables protected only by a fencement catalytic converter and car thefts are off the chart. state farm says catalytic converter theft is up 400% since

2019. homeless encampments are getting some but certainly not all of the blame. the pandemic caused a bad problem to become a massive crisis, and cities like tacoma simply have not come up with answers to homelessness and crime. >> they're selling drugs, they're manufacturing drugs, fencing stolen vehicles. you've got pit bulls running around going after people. it's a zoo. and there's no policy in place to make them move away. >> reporter: some have express concern over safety, but these fences are really only a risk to people breaking the law. you'd have to cut through or go over a chain-link fence which always sits in front of the electric fence. liz? elizabeth: what a story. khan springer, great to have you on. let's welcome to the show retired sergeant betsy brantner smith, spokeswoman for the national police association. great to see you again, betsy. so small business owners are moving to to using electrified fences with 7,000 volts. they're saying it works 100% of the time.

what coyou make of this? >> i it's a fantastic idea. you know, i was this chicago this past weekend, and you saw so many businesses that were hiring their own security guards and things like that. businesses are starting to realize that because their police departments are shorthanded and theirty and county leadership -- city and county leadership is not going to support the prosecution of criminals, they're going to have to do something themselves to, you know, protect their own businesses. i think this is a fantastic idea. elizabeth: sergeant, there's also this story, even democrats are fed up with crime. we've got democrat san francisco commissioner alex ludlum, he sent -- he's slamming the city's out of control crime. he sent a scathing resignation letter to mayor london breed. what do you think of this story? >> well, i gotta tell you, you know, this commissioner, he was doing this doom loop tour where you could actually sign up to go and see just how horrific the

streets of san francisco are, but a lot of people they decided to cancel them because he's taking advantage of people's terrible lives, you know, and things like that. here's the thing, in to 20 the mayor -- 2020, mayor london breed said i am going to fundamentally change this police department, i'm going to make it a 21st century, model police department which is something barack obama came up with, and she said we're going to get rid of police as first responders in than-criminal situations. oh, like maybe homelessness? she pledged to demilitarize her police department, and she pledged to redirect funding, in other words, defund her will police and put more money toward racial equity. what's happened in the last three years? exactly what that commissioner is talking about. now she's trying to boost pay, hire more civilians, and she's at least 200 cops short is. elizabeth: wow. >> these democrat cities have got to understand that these no-police policies are not working, and the business community is realizing it,

absolutely. elizabeth: you know what? also, sergeant, voters see it. a recent gallup poll, half of americans, 48%, say san francisco is unsafe. that's up from from 30% in 2006 who said that. but now we've got california governor gavin newsom blaming federal judges and the 9th circuit court. he's blaming the judges saying the judges are making it harder to clear out drug markets and street encampments. what do you think of this take from gavin newsom? >> i think what's happening in california hiking in so many -- like in so many other areas is everybody's pointing the finger at somebody else. it's not my fault, it's somebody else's fault. we've got to go back to understanding why this occurred. and i saw in one of the hits, one of the business people said, well, it's the pandemic. it's the not the pandemic. it has been three years of the vilification of the american law enforcement officer combined with all these soros-installed prosecutors especially in california but all around the

country who don't want to tackle crime and use the american justice system to protect the people, protect our businesses and protect law-abiding citizens. elizabeth: got it. >> that's the real problem. elizabeth: sergeant brantner smith, you're terrific. it's good to see you. >> thank for having me. elizabeth: coming up, the top official from a major watchdog group demanding the white house stop this hypocrisy, flying all over the world on polluting jets to talk about climate change, all of these junkets at the taxpayers' expense. they're now suing to get transportation secretary pete buttigieg's private jet records. but first, let's check in with our buddies dagen is and brian brenberg in for sean, want to see what's next hour on "the bottom line." brian: yeah, tim kennedy is in trouble with instagram, he's here to talk about it, and deroy murdock has a beef with john mellencamp. dagen: our razzle-dazzle panel, among the topics the climate

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elizabeth: okay, joining me now from the if watchdog group americans for public trust, executive director caitlin sutherland. caitlin, it's good to see you. okay, so your group is battling for transparency9 from the biden white house. the white house again, you know, cites climate change for idalia and maui, but if they care that much, why is u.s. climate envoy john kerry again flying every month around the world, and why is pete buttigieg flying on polluting jets to talk about climate change? >> well, thank you for having me. so last year americans for public trust helped determine that pete buttigieg was excessively ruse yoking a taxpayer-funded jet, but that was only part of the story. we still didn't know how much it cost taxpayers, so we filed freedom of information act requests to determine how much of your money was spent flying buttigieg and his staffers around the country. and every step of the way the faa has stonewalled our request, forcing us to file a lawsuit to

compel them to release the the records to figure out how much his private jets have the taxpayers. elizabeth: so is your foia lawsuit, you're the ones who found out he's flown at least 18 times using private jets from the faa, right? so the biden white house is stonewalling that, right? you know, john kerry testified recently he too is stonewalling about what exactly his office is doing, who's on his payroll. show the viewer again how often kerry flies, you know? he flies every month. he's been -- now meeting with global oil and gas leaders to urge them to bring plans on climate change to the upcoming u.n. climate summit, but, you know, he -- since over the last generation or so, he's been flying around the world multiple times. among them, polluting airplanes. >> that's exactly right. the biden administration pledged to be one of the most transparent administrations, but

we have found that has been anything but. and here we have a government agency, the faa, stonewalling the release of these records. it's absurd. elizabeth: so let me talk about the documents you're getting. so the faa, i want to understand this, your group is finding out that the faa has, in fact, located 32 pages of documents, but when are they going to hand that over to you guys? >> you know, that's a great question. these documents should have been handed over months ago. but the faa is dragging their feet, giving us excuse after excuse every step of the way. and we just found out they need 10 weeks to produce 32 pages. could you imagine if you or i needed one week to work on 3 pages of work? we would absolutely get fired. but this is nothing new for the biden administration completely protecting pete buttigieg and the costs of these taxpayer-funded private jets.

elizabeth: so it sounds like you're not going to get them until halloween? i mean, didn't you work on this like a year ago and put in this request over a year ago in so they're continuing to stonewall? it's like they're blowing off the american people. >> what's ironic about this is that we are trying to determine the cost of the flight, and they are wasting taxpayer dollars by just bringing this to the a lawsuit. they should have been transparent months ago. and, again, this is coming around the time that pete buttigieg is supposed to be flying commercial but turns out he's flying private across the country when you and i do not have the option to fly private. it is way more convenient and -- for him and way more expensive to the taxpayers, what he has been doing. elizabeth: got it. caitlin sutherland, thanks for britaining the story to us. we'll keep monitoring it. up next, we've got a feel-good story. you don't want to miss it. we're about to surprise you with a grassroots movement that is

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elizabeth: welcome back. now this feel-good story. did you ever meet someone who's a force of nature, who just makes things better? they do it through leadership? well, we found it in our next guest. joining us now, bryce weiler. bryce was born blind at birth, he's a radio sportscaster.

he also cofounded the beautiful lives project with anthony. bryce, i'm on the board of your project. can you tell the viewer about it in it's a grassroots movement that's really exploded nationwide. >> hi, liz. the beautiful lives project allows adults and children of all disabilities the opportunity to experience playing on the field with sports teams across the country, also performing with cheerleading teams and dance teams and even learning how to do music and other types of activities outside of sports. elizabeth: so you grew up as a person with a disability. how did that inspire you to, you know, be a sportscaster and make sports more accessible to people with disabilities? >> when i was at the university of evansville, the former aces head men's basketball coach, marty simmons, gave me the opportunity to sit on his basketball bench and experience college basketball. also whenever i was at evansville, tom vincent, who was

the general manager of the student radio station, gave me the opportunity to learn how to analyze basketball on the radio as a blind sports broadcaster. from those two experiences, i wanted to help people of all disabilities to have their own life-changing moments and opportunities while helping show that the most important thing a person with a disability needs is just someone to give them the opportunity to live their dream and life. elizabeth: so are you going to be at the -- beautiful lives is coming to the u.s. open, it's going to be playing with the baltimore orioles. it's basically engaging adults and children with disabilities so they don't feel isolated. so what are you hearing? what's been the feedback on this nationwide? >> everyone across the country enjoys these events with the beautiful lives project. the events are inclusive of all disabilities, and it's also open to adults and children of every disability. that is what makes beautiful lives project events special, is

that the events are open to everyone no matter what his or her disability is, and there are no age restrictions. it allows people with disabilities the chance to have experiences with sports teams or learning how to do bot -- pottery or sculpture, but most importantly, it helps people with disabilities to create lifelong friendships and to overcome obstacles and barriers that are placed in their way by those who do not believe that a person with a disability can be successful in life. elizabeth: so, bryce, this is a story about joy. it's a story about happiness. talk to us about how the children and the adults with disabilities and their family members, their parents, how do they react? >> the adults and children who have disabilities are grateful for the opportunity to have these experiences, to play with their heroes whether it's with michigan state football aten ab event i've been to or boston college football where our

executive director tony has done great events for people with disabilities and the boston college eagles' football team. the children really enjoy it as well as the cults. -- adults. for the parents as well as the caregivers who may be assisting with the adults or children who have disabilities, they have the opportunity to realize that their child or the adult they're working with who has a disability can do anything that they dream of in life. and if the parent or that caregiver can work to help foster more opportunities, that that can help people with disabilities to overcome any obstacles that are placed in their way. elizabeth: well, bryce, you're an american hero. so is anthony, is so is melissa at beautiful lives. what would you like to see change here in america about this subject? what do you think should happen? >> more people who have disabilities should be given the same opportunities that i was at evansville, the chance to sit on the basketball bench and to broadcast games on the radio.

or people who have disabilities should be allow to live whatever their dreams are in life. that's what we tried to do every day with the beautiful lives project, to make dreams come through -- to make dreams come true with the events that we run but also to make treatments a -- dreams a reality through showing that a person with a disability do anything that they wanted to do in life if they only have someone who believes in them just as you have believed in me and you have believed and supported the beautiful lives project since we first came in contact with each other in 2019. elizabeth: thank you, bryce. that's a great story. it's been an honor to be with the blp. it's good to have you on. we'll be talking about this more. let's send it over to dagen and brian, they've got a hot show on "the bottom line." dagen: go, bryce! thank you, e-mac. ♪