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the evening edit starts now. president biden and the white house in spin overdrive, laughing offs with for bank records. according to the "the washington post," families crossing the border illegally reached an all-time high in august, but the white house claims president biden has done what he can when it comes to the crisis. watch. >> look, the president has done what he can from here, from the federal government, from the white house to put forth and manage our border in a safe and humane way. brian: let's welcome to the show florida congresswoman kat cammack. congresswoman, good to see you. that, to me, sounds like maybe in a week of many lame excuses the absolute worst one that i've heard yet. [laughter] >> i don't know how else to say it except for that's a lie, straight out. that is a lie. i myself have been to the border

nine times, and nine times i have been told by border patrol agents, by texas dps this is the worst that they have seen in their 20 the, 25 the, 30-year careers. if he was doing everything that he could to secure that border, we wouldn't have a policy of paroling people into this country upwards of 7 million people at this point. we wouldn't have a policy of allowing people to come into this country with zero background checks. he would have reimplemented title 42 instead of getting rid of it, he would have kept the remain in mexico policy, he would have kept all of the trump era policies to secure this border. instead, he did away with them because he wants an open border. that is why he is the trafficker in chief. that is a fact. brian: yeah. and what's interesting is you've got more and more democrats now pleading for help over this crisis. he says he's done all he can, but he didn't even meet with new york governor kathy hochul when he came to d.c. to discuss what's happening in her state

where i am right now. new jersey governor phil murphy, another one. he says his state can't handle all the migrants entering new york city. this as the biden administration is considering the atlantic city airport for housing. congresswoman, i mean, you've got more democrats basically says -- saying this isn't working. now, my problem with that is they're just asking for money. we need more than money, but this is becoming a bipartisan outcry at this point. >> yeah. i mean, think about this, you have thousands, thousands and thousands of illegals who have come into our country, we don't know who they are, and they are using the resources that have been set aside. take, for example, the money that was put into fema for homeless veterans' programs were redistricted -- redirected for plane and bus tickets for illegals. we have people in our country who are hurting, and now we have

many if new york city, for example, housing these folks in schools, many elementary schools, in public safety buildings. this is crazy to me. brian: yeah. is here's what's interesting. remember how these same folks used to blast former president trump over his border policies? you've got far-left congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez crying at the border. she says now that immigration is arguably the biden administration's weakest issue. interesting comment from her. is she right? >> well, it's interesting, i haven't seen her crying -- oh, there's that photo. i haven't seener her crying in an empty parking lot since biden took office, but i will tell you that it has been like pulling teeth9 to to get democrats down to the border. this is not a republican or democrat issue. this is an american issue. and without a secure border, we are not a sovereign nation. there are so many people coming across from over 151 different nations that we have to the know

who's coming, we have to know their intentions. and when you have fentanyl the number one killer of people between the ages of 18-45 that is being smuggled across that southwest border, every community in america is now a border town as a result of these policies. so i have said repeatedly you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. they are asking for a major disaster to happen as a result of the open border policies of biden. brian: so while he's evading responsibility for this, at the same time he's telling new york's private businesses they gotta step up, requesting $600 million to offset a potential $12 billion problem. if let me just focus on this part for a sec. none of the math adds up. one of the biggest reasons is because there's no solution to the problem which means the money would just have to keep flowing. i just, i don't see how we can send money to to these cities when it's a blank check at this point, congresswoman. >> well, that's exactly right.

the left 's answer for everything has always been throw money at a problem and hope it goes away. that doesn't work. if you want to actually solve this problem, what you need to do is secure the border, continue building the border wall. that is a force multiplier. implement the technology, but more importantly, enforce the laws that are on the books. the trump era policies were the right policies. that is why we had record low illegal immigration during the trump administration. that is why we need to get back to that. so if they'd just enforce the laws on the books, we don't need to keep throwing tax pay -- taxpayer money at the problem. i'm at horseshoe beach where we actually need resources. people's homes and is livelihoods have been stripped away in the blink of an eye. we need to focus on american citizens, putting them first. brian: i wanted to ask you about that. how's it going in your district was hit hard, you can see the wreckage behind you. how's the recovery going,

congresswoman? >> well, i can tell you right now my district being kind of ground zero, here at horseshoe beach pulling in, it's gut-wrenching. it brings tears to your eyes seeing how much devastation has taken place so quickly. behind me this was a home just about 72 hours ago. it no longer exists. this family has been here for 40 years. their kids grew up here, i met them here today, and it just breaks your heart. when you see the friends and family though of all these folks who have lived here, who work here coming out and helping, this is all behind me happening at the behest of locals. so there's a lot of forgotten areas up and down the coast. this is why it's called the forgotten coast in addition to the to the nature coast, because there's so many small towns that are multigeneration families. we also are sustaining huge ag losses, aquaculture, for example. we had a lot of saltwater intrusion that has ruined entire crops. this is a devastating storm that is going to have implications

for not just weeks and months, but years. brian: well, we thank you for being on the ground having a sense of the situation, knowing what's needed. i hope your leadership is very effective there, and is we're certainly praying for all the folks in that area. congresswoman cam act, thanks for being with us today. appreciate it. >> appreciate it, thank you. brian: all right. turning to another biden spin, this time speaking on jobs today, recall the president touting bidenomics in the past? >> we created more jobs in two years than any president ever created in a four-year, single four-year term. we did it in two years. the plan is -- four years. bidenomics is just another way of saying restoring the american dream. that's what it is. the the financial times and the "wall street journal," i don't think they meant it as a compliment, they started referring to my policies as bidenomics. guess what? it's working. [cheers and applause] brian: well, he left out a few

things there. you had wages come in under expectations. we also got revisions to june and july, 110,000 jobs were taken off the rolls in those months. and overall, gas prices will probably hit a record for labor day weekend this coming weekend. he didn't refill the spr, and oil's above $82. consumers are also feeling it at the grocery store and the housing market. with me now is former white house council of economic advisers chair thomas phillip and liz peek. thomas, you had 187,000 jobs in the august jobs report. that beat expectations, but it's a low number that we've seen trending down over the past several months. the unemployment rate jumped to 3.8% for the month. that's a big month over month jump. biden keeps saying he's created 13 million jobs. that is a tired, debunked number. but tell us what you made about the august jobs report and what

you think it means for the economy. >> well, first to his comments, i think, you know, it's very insulting, i think, to the american people that claim that they don't understand if you shut down the economy because of a pandemic, you have job losses and if you open it up, you have people coming back. and claiming victory for that through your policies, i just think it's very insulting to people to think that they're going to be fooled by that in some sense. coming to today's job number, we clearly had a cooling of the job market. we had openingsings earlier in the week, that came down. we have is quits coming down, new jobs trending down. but this has never been a great labor market which the white house wants to claim because, like you said, labor is poorer than they were when they started essentially. so in this american dream he's talking about means you're poorer over time as to opposed to richer. brian: yeah, that's an inflation story. liz, it's still raging under biden. obviously, the overall cpi up

nearly 16% since he took office. the the cost for food at home, every time i see this number, actually it feels totally real to me but it's crazy, 20%. people are living paycheck to paycheck. they're reporting, 6 11th say they can -- 61% say they can barely make ends meet from a recent survey. his policies are not working, but you start to get concerned, liz, that this consumer that's been lifting up the economy is on its knees, and that spells trouble for the months ahead when it comes to where the economy goes. >> yeah. i think you're totally right, brian. we're either heading for a slowdown or a crash landing, and it's really not clear which which. the reason i worry about things sort of falling off a cliff is exactly right, the consumer is stressed. there was a report out yesterday that among knapp families -- s.n.a.p. families, half are going with less food this month versus last month or simply not

able to make ends meet. so the lower income american is really in trouble. and i think what's happened is they kept spending by taking on more and more debt. and i peel like all of a sudden now -- i feel like all of a sudden now, according to a lot of reports coming in, that debt is really a heavy burden. the price of credit card department, as you well know, is over 20%. i think we could see consumer spending kind of go off a cliff here. and that really worrilies me. one of wall street's -- worries me. one of wall street's famous economists keeps reminding clients everything was all right before the great recession until it wasn't, and i feel like that's where we are. brian: thomas, really quickly to build on that point, you've got student debt repayments, interest is starting to accrue now. the payments will start in october. is that going to make a big dent in consumer spending by year end? >> well, i think, i mean, the they've delayed it now several years, and now it's starting up again. it's essentially the democrats who wants taxpayers to pay for

voting democratic, essentially, when you send your kids to university. and they have doubled down, as you know, after the supreme court tried to stop them. in terms of the inflationary effect, what's going to happen with these things that they're trying to do which is income-tested student loans, you're clearly going to have tuition inflation because now the universities can charge, they can charge anything and just forgiven if they don't have enough income. brian: it's the most broken economic system perhaps in our country right now, and these guys are bent on making it worse. we've got to leave it there. thomas and liz, great to see you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. brian: all right. "the washington post" fact checks biden on his personal stories. find out how they hold up next on "the evening edit." ♪ ♪

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brian: president biden downplays mitch mcconnell's health scare after the senate minority leader froze during a press conference earlier this week. watch. >> i spoke to mitch. he's a friend. and i, i spoke to him today, and, you know, he was his old self on the telephone. it's not at all unusual to have

a response that sometimes happens to mitch when you've had a severe concussion. it's part of, it's part of the recovery. and so i'm confident he's going to be back to his old self. brian: meanwhile, a new poll shows that 77% of u.s. adults believe that biden is, quote, too old to be effective for four more years. joining me now is former deputy press secretary for president trump, hogan gidley. good to see you. what do you make of that a knoll it's a 77% number top line, but that includes a huge chunk of democrats in addition to republicans. this is a bipartisan concern. >> i'm is so glad you said that. almost 70% of democrats think he's too old. look, age is a problem, don't get me wrong, but it's not the main issue i here with joe biden. he can't get through simple sentences. he can't get true to coherent thoughts. his cognitive decline is obvious, his physical decline,

obviously. the american people see that. and so while many on the left and many in the media will try to tell you, no, he's fine, age is just a number, it's a problem for someone like joe biden. and when he's given the questions to answers -- excuse me, the questions from reporters, he's giving the answers, he still can't get through those either. it's a real issue, and the american people go, wait a minute, we've got to have someone who's got to reduce crime, close our borders, fix this crumbling economy, gotta stop wars, and when a president goes overseas regardless of political party, what you want is for that president to emit strength. you want to see someone who's in control of the global stage not to mention his own country. joe biden doesn't fit that description, and it's going to be an issue for him moving forward in this campaign. brian: and that same poll found that 68% of adults would support setting a maximum age for candidates to be eligible to run for congress. so this is interesting, hogan,

this is the third oldest congress since 1789 and the oldest in the past century. but there's some questions about imposing age limits violating the constitution. look, i'll tell you just from my own standpoint, that sounds very reasonable to me. what do you make of kind of the growing sense that we might need a policy like that? >> yeah. look, again, i'm less about age and more about fitness, okay? mitch mcconnell is about a year separated from mick jagger, for example. [laughter] obviously, mick jagger's out giving concerts, doesn't forget9 the words, does his thing, puts on a great show. some of these octogenarians, it's not that their age necessarily hinders hem from doing their job, it's where they are at that stage. look, i worked for donald trump. he wasn't the youngest president by any stretch, but you couldn't keep up with the guy. in one could ever say with 2-hour press conferences in the morning, cabinet meetings for hours, hours on marine one,

hours on air force one, so not every 80-year-old is created equal, if you will. and so while some people are kind of concerned about it, i understand the age number, but it's really more about ability. some can handle it, some can't. brian: you talk about youthful vigor, you've got a younger voice emerging in the republican party, vivek ramaswamy, and he is taking heat from all sides. watch. >> vivek was completely wrong to say that we have to choose between the border or protecting our national security. we do it all. >> well, i think what surprised me was how ridiculous many of vivek ramaswamy's ideas were. >> he's wrong on foreign policy, he's wrong on american leadership in the world. >> the fact is that vivek says one thing, does another. he looks to me to be the worst of what politicians are characterized to be. brian: only got about 10 seconds, hogan, but how's he handling the incoming fire right now? >> well, thing we say in the

south, it's a turkey with the head raised that gets shot. he restauranted around that stage and raised his head. the fact that everyone went after vivek shows me the interim polling showing that bump that he he to got was absolutely real. he's definitely moving up mt. polls. brian: and he wanted to be in that spotlight. he raised his head, for sure. hogan, good to see you, sir. >> thanks. brian: all right. elon musk calling out an elite private school for turning his daughter into a, quote, communist who thinks anyone rich is evil. plus, we have the wyoming sorority sister who's vowing to fight to protect women's spaces after a judge tosses the lawsuit against a trans member in her sorority. and the washington post fact checks biden on his personal stories. find out how they hold up. all that coming up on "the evening edit." ♪ ♪

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brian: a new lawsuit alleges thousands of e-mails show then-vice president biden used three personal pseudonym e-mail accounts to talk business and forward government information to his son hunter. fox news' david spunt is live at the justice department with more. hey, david. >> reporter: hey, brian with, good evening. you know, it appears this group, the southeastern legal foundation, will eventually get some documents, but it's not clear how many they'll get. it's been over a year and no documents at this point. they're fighting back and forth, that's why they filed this lawsuit. it is not uncommon for public figures, cabinet secretaries and others, republicans and democrats, to use pseudonyms in e-mails to be able to send e-mails and not have a very public e-mail address where they're just inundated with thousands of e-mails from the public. however, this group claims that then-vp biden did the not only that, but talked business with his son hunter via e-mail. fox news has not independently confirmed that hunter was copied

on any of these e-mails, but according to this lawsuit filed just this month by the southeastern legal foundation, the national archives is sitting on thousands of e-mail messages from then-vp joe biden's office with the following pseudonyms: robin wear 456 -- robin ware, and the third is robert l. peters at pci.gov. the national archives wrote this organization and said we performed a search of our selection for these records and have have identified approximately 5,138 e-mail messages, 25 electronic files and 200 pages of potentially responsive records that must be processed in order to respond to your request. >> we haven't moved up in the cue in 14 months. -- in the queue. we've been trying to get these. it's not where we just file this without my back and forth as anyone can see by reading the complaint. so we're hopeful they'll start

or producing them. >> reporter: a source familiar with the process at the national archives, brian, tells fox news that it may be some time before they get these documents if they get all of them because a lot of them may be covered under the presidential records act, aka the obama administration. both sides would have a chance, meaning barack obama's representatives and joe biden's representatives, to look over some of these e-mails, but group remains hopeful they'll get something out of this. brian? brian: a long way to go, david spunt. thank you very much. >> reporter: you're welcome. brian: with me now, cornell university law professor william jacobson. i just want to get your reaction to david's report. this looks like a potentially explosive set of e-mails especially if there were, was correspondence about business. but are we going to see these in the next year, two years? it sounds like the delay could be a very long time. >> well, the the delay is what it's all about in terms of the biden administration. they don't want this coming out

before the 2024 election, so they'll stall. i don't know whether we'll get them before the election, but it's certainly very suspicious. it is true, as your reporter indicated, there's nothing in and of itself wrong about using a pseudonym, but it's very unusual for a vice president to be doing, having conversations with business partners of his son while he's vice president. so what was the purpose of these? and we won't know til we see them, so we need to see them. the public needs to know. brian: you know, talking about other things we'd like to get some information on, president biden tried to laugh off a question about whether he'll hand over bank records requested by house speaker mccarthy. watch this. [inaudible conversations] >> -- bank records to congress? [laughter] >> let's talk about why i'm here. [inaudible conversations] brian: i don't think it's a laughing matter. he's laughing about it, but it always seems to be the case that he's never in a pot where he's able or -- in a spot where he's

able or willing to talk about these bank records. but, of course, the more we learn about what's going on with these records, the more we see the kinds of ties that raise questions about his business dealings. are we going to see anything on this count, sir? >> well, this is going to be another stall job. i think we probably will get those records, but whether we get them in time for them to make a difference mt. election is the point. look what happened with the information in hunter biden's laptop before the 2020 election. they just stalled and denied and distracted. and so there is a big problem here with the biden family's business dealings while joe biden was vice president if whether he essentially sold access or allowed his son to sell access to the vice president of the united states. so it's so important to get these records. but given the the history, i'm not confident we will get them in type. brian: let -- in time. brian: we're talking about these stories and it's, like, well, there's e-mails and bank records, but we won't get those

for years and they'll stall. is there any way to cut through any of that? is it just the case that the stalling is the way it works and there's no way to deal with it, or is there some kind of way you can cut through the roadblock and just find out what a actually is going on with our president when it comes to the potential situation of bribery? >> well, i think, you know, one of the ways in part is public pressure, that this needs to be the centerpiece of the opposition to the joe biden and the campaign no matter who the republican nominee is. we need full disclosure. and if he's unwilling to give it, that should be a campaign issue in and of itself. the court system's an option, but it took years for -- that takes years to go through the court system. brian: right. i've got to get your take on this, "the washington post" issued a scathing fact check saying president biden's stories, or you know, the ones he tells at press conferences -- he doesn't do press conferences, but out on the trail, are not

credible. watch. >> i had the great honor of being arrested with our u.n. ambassador on the streets of -- angelo negri, senior conductor, walked up and said, joey, baby. grabbed my cheek, i said, he's okay, he's a friend. true story. two men kissed each ore -- other, and i'd never seen that before. i looked at my dad. he looked back at me and said, it's simple, they love each other. my grand pop died in the hospital i was born in two weeks before i was born. i almost lost my wife, my '67 corvette and my cat. brian: william, really quickly, this is why people don't trust him on the bribery issue, isn't it? >> that's right. i mean, the fact checker, i think, said these are unverifiable. that's just a polite way of saying he lied. brian: exactly. the more you do this, the more people say what can we trust, mr. president? not much, it appears. thank you for being with us,

appreciate it. >> thank you. brian: elon musk calling out an elite private school, also we have a sorority sister in the lawsuit against the inclusion of a transgender student in her sorority after the case was dismissed by a federal judgement. all that next on "the evening edit." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the biggest ideas inspire new ones. 30 years ago, state street created an etf that inspired the world to invest differently. it still does. what can you do with spy? ♪

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now moving to this, a federal judge dismissing a lawsuit challenging the induction of 21-year-old transgender woman art miss langford into the wyoming chapter of the kappa kappa gamma sorority. members claim she joined despite not being a woman or making efforts to the appear e female. also claiming langford made them feel uncomfortable. for more on this, let's welcome kkg alumna kali hogan when is vow dog protect -- vowing to protect members. what was your reaction to this being dismissed? >> we were very disappointed to hear that's what the judge's decision was, but it's honestly just made us want to fight this harder. it's inspired us to work harder at us as well and taught us a few lessons too. we know where we can change a few things and be more successful in the future. brian: can i ask you, how has this impacted other members of

the sorority? if obviously, one of the goals is to create unity and bring people together. what impact has it had on what the group is doing? >> it has pretty much torn apart our sorority. my freshman year we were pretty sound s and i've watched it only get stronger over the years. and by my senior year, we were as close as i've ever seen. any of the girls could be talking to anyone, and it was the really great because we all really relied on each other. and after this whole situation happened, the house became so politically divided that it was very uncomfortable to live in. fortunately, i had graduated and i don't have to live there, but i do really feel for my sisters who are still stuck in the house. brian: so you're talking about a house, actually a physical house here, allie. is langford living with the sorority sisters right now, actually in physical proximity living in the same space at this point?

>> not this school year, but that could change. brian: okay. but that was the situation in prior school years. >> this member was given membership last year in the fall semester, so it's not something that we've dealt with yet with this person living in the house, but it is something that could still happen. brian: right. okay. cassie, you're helping to represent al here in this legal fight -- allie in this legal fight. the case was dismissed. do you have recourse, next steps legally to do anything? >> yes, we fully intend on refiling this lawsuit with a litany of additional claims. the retaliation from headquarters in an effort to spread their woke social contagion keeps coming. they've exhibitedded extreme retaliation against these girls, and that won't be tolerated. and to your point about the individual living in the house, although this individual isn't living in the house yet, that could change at any moment. and frequently comes in for

breakfast, dinners, interactions with the young women. and as our complaint outlined, has been caught attempting to photograph these young women and make them very uncomfortable within their own living quarters where i think shower and are frequently there at night. brian: this person was trying to photograph other women in the sorority. did i hear you right? >> yes. brian: okay. >> this is exactly the reason why -- brian: why was this -- >> this is exactly why this suit is so important. because this is a woman's space. women join sororities at a very important time in their life for safety and comfortability. this is their new home away from home. and so to have that intruded upon in such a dangerous way was completely overlooked by this judge, and that's why we want about to refile it with some additional information and evidence just to show the damage that this has caused these young women. and it's, in our opinion, the women's generation issue. i mean, this is the fight that will continue on. and if somebody doesn't step in

and stop this, our plaintiffs feel very strongly this can have impact for our own daughters, their own ability to have a bathroom that's private. this sort of issue is so important. brian: i mean, it's just shocking to me. and the level of threat when you have somebody coming into that kind of space and doing things like taking photographs, i mean, i don't see how a sorority system can actually persist urn conditions like that. i guess that's what this fight is about. allie and cassie, we're out of time, but thank you for being with us. we will follow how things go. please keep us updated. >> thank you. >> thank you. brian: okay. the pentagon just launching a new web site with declassified information about uf if os -- ufos. plus, we have the owner of a popular san francisco restaurant that's closing after 14 years in business due to crime. but first, let's check in with dagen to see what they have coming up next hour on "the bottom line." dagen: hey, brian.

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brian: crime is devastating small businesses around the country, and leaders in blue states and cities are doing basically nothing to stop the it. especially in san francisco, california. a victim of this is the owner of gracias madre, a popular are vegan mexican restaurant that had to shutter its san francisco location this week. first of all, welcome. thanks for being with us. you had to close your location in the mission district location can, san francisco. what led you to do that? >> well, over the -- first of all, thank you for the invite. over the years since covid, really business has just continued to decline. there's little or no tourism now

in san francisco. there's a lot of homelessness, a lot of drug and small crimes. and it just became an unsafe neighborhood. guests no longer really wanted to venture out in the evening and just slowly, over time, the deterioration of customers and people feeling good about going out and enjoying themselves. so, yeah, it's become nearly impossible to do business. brian: and we're talking about, i mean, this location for you was, like, people lined up around the block. i mean -- >> yes, it was. brian: right? this wasn't just like getting by, it was hugely popular. now nobody wants to come there because there's so much crime. >> the yeah. it was a very vibrant, vital business for years and years. some of the employees in that restaurant have been with us for almost 20 the years because we've had other restaurants as well. and so, yeah, it's been a big shame that this has happened, and it's super sad to see the

condition of what was once a very beautiful city that people saved up their whole life to come to just once. brian: awful. you've got other locations in west hollywood and newport beach. have you seen similar issues at those locations? >> well, i think business is down all around. since covid i think the experience of hospitality, of getting to bo out and celebrate has been -- go out and celebrate has been different. but i think we've done a good job of navigating that although san francisco was definitely more difficult. and some of the laws that are being passed make it very hard for a small business to thrive and do well. brian: yeah. let me talk about one of hose potential laws, a new crime bill in california would fine business owners who don't have dedicated security officers up to $18,000 if their employees attempted to stop thieves from stealing from their the stores. i mean, i gotta believe you

can't afford to hire dedicated security officers which means you'd get -- you'd be bankrupt if you tried to keep people from stealing your stuff! >> yeah. brian: how do you operate in california with that? >> yeah. it's not fun, you know? our business was always about providing great service, great food, a great product and just appreciating our people and, you know, serving, serving what we call love, loving to serve and loving to serve people. and you just can't do it in the environment of having to always take a defensive position to protect yourself from crime. it's not fun. not fun for anyone. brian: no. i am so sorry that your thriving restaurant had to close because your city couldn't provide the basics of fighting crime and dealing with homelessness. that is so sad. we've got to leave it there, but thank you for sharing your story with us. it's important and we appreciate it. >> thank you. yeah. thank you so much, we appreciate

you. brian: well, the truth is out there and available to the public. the pentagon just launched a new web site with declassified information about ufos. and more than half of us will leave home this labor day weekend paying a lott for gas. we'll -- a lot for gas. we'll talk about it next on "the evening edit." >> disrespectful. it's just incredibly high. and for the last two weeks, it's just been going up. >> i just want to hop on the public transit, but not everybody has the time to hop on public transit. ♪

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♪ after months of anticipation, the pentagon has officially unveiled a new website for declassified information on ufos putting pictures, video with assessments and explanations. this follows a whistleblower telling the house oversight committee in july he believed the government had possession of alien technology. joining me now is congressman tim. congressman, thanks for being with us. this is not my cup of tea, but this is yours. are you happy that this new website is up and you think it will be helpful? >> it is an agency that loses over a billion dollars a year. it is never passed an audit.

they told us since 1947 that ufos do not exist, it is a figment of our imagination. now, all of a sudden, chuck schumer is talking about a new department over there and guess what, all of a sudden ufos do exist and we will bring you out so very poor quality footage and some things that most people in the ufo committee of into it. they will allocate more money. look, why would you trust a group since 1947, since at least braswell they said these things don't exist and now the switch turns on. they have seen folks like the good folks at fox like yourself that are covering it in over half the population believes in it so they can ask congress for more money. i want transparency. don't bring me any little green

men, just bring me transparency. >> what would actually look like a good first step in terms of transparency? what would you like to see for them to be taking this seriously now? >> anything that has to do with ufos. they change their names. don't kid yourself. they are not being honest about anything. anything that has ufo in it that they would release it. just release it. they won't release the kennedy files. killed over 60 years ago. it's about secrecy, it's about money and dishonesty which is pretty much what washington is built on. we try to do these hearings and it's like pulling teeth. deny, deny, deny. we have witnesses scared off by the pentagon. even our own committee staff try to block us from having our own people there.

this is a cover-up from day one. let the american public see the files. >> i want to ask you about a more terrestrial issue here. the house transportation infrastructure committee. record travel for the labor day weekend. you have hurricane idalia. with that people will be in the skies. out there talking about airlines and how well things will be handled. what is your confidence level? >> very low. mayor pete, we cut debt, we paid cash for schools and gave raises without more taxes. he is just the exact opposite. he rides his bicycle, he writes his suburban up to the entrance of his office and he makes his security team get his bicycle out. that is what he is about. about show, no go.

the united airlines, i fly united, about to go on strike, uf tsa problems all over the country. you name it, the price of gasoline is through the roof. more people are trying to travel >> that is a pretty picture as we head into the weekend. thank you. we appreciate your insight. thank you for being here. >> trying to be a little more positive. >> fox corporation has made a donation to hurricane idalia efforts. to help visit online. you can catch me in the big money show 1:00 p.m. eastern right here on foxbusiness every single weekday. that is it for the evening that appeared now it is time for the bottom line. dagen mcdowell and david standing by. dagen: thank you. ♪