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hearing next thursday. why hunters that staged a walkout. i is randi weingarten defending biden on the uaw strike and manufacturing as public schools fail? more states push to keep former president trump off state ballots. legal process say it's going nowhere close shocking new video coming in, a car stolen in broad daylight out of a suburban garage. the owner in the driver seat. a major storm of government waste blowing into the government shutdown fight with little done to stop asking to $5 a gallon, oil headed to $100 a barrel. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> joining us from house ways and means congressman that then

dan and tom dupree, thank you both for joining us. let's listen to president biden that was a rambling speech. leaders from france, china and russia, uk and india were not there at the un general assembly to listen. you will hear that and spokesman john kirby say is somebody else's problem the administration falls control of 100 million dollars fighter jet lost. >> for one day my administration, the united states treated this crisis as an x essential threat. we also stand ready on issues where progress is on common efforts. nowhere is that more critical than accelerating the climate crisis and the accelerating climate crisis. our institutions and new partnerships, let me be clear,

certain principles in the system are sacrosanct. >> how does the u.s. military lose 100 million-dollar plane? that would be something they will investigate. >> okay, they are just going to investigate. what is your reaction? this is before the whole world. >> in my the only one waiting for him to be clear, let me be clear? we keep seeing uncle after bungle, it's embarrassing, is on the center stage for the entire world to watch. an embarrassment just on tv but the fact that he's got all the policies backing it up which is destroying our country. >> finish your thought. >> i'm just looking at the energy policy and his foreign policy and what we are doing at the border and with american businesses and how we demonize them in sinks ray cities. this is not just a bungling

president, it's a dangerous president. >> this was joe biden's moment to shine, the attention of the world and the spotlight, the microphone and he didn't deliver. the clips you showed is a difficult biden, not coming up with soaring rhetoric that drives people to act and build coalition. it's dispiriting when you hear it. if you are right in the democratic party, you got to cite, is this really the person who want to be our standardbearer into the next election? in the moment is high in the world stage lights around him, he delivers. >> that debate is not inside the democratic party, we see got out of the washington post and new york times so we've got the white house blasting house republicans for holding their first impeachment hearing next thursday september 28. reports are coming in that make subpoena hunter biden, james biden, bank records and hunter

biden's business partners including eric trawick who saw biden's bookkeeping, is that all correct, is that what is going on? >> we definitely want to get bank records to follow the mo money. i've been saying that for a number of months. follow the money and figure out why the administration is making the deals it is making. there are two separate paths, one is biden corruption and biden family corruption. millions of dollars for basically selling access in the president basically having his family pay family companies on center stage talking about how he's allowing ukrainian prosecutor pushing for the ukrainian prosecutor using u.s. dollars to enforce that and a separate path, you got the cover up. you got the president son who has these felonies already against him and anybody else

would be in prison right now, d.o.j., fbi, the cover-up going on for years that's preventing all of this transparency so what you see, these inquiries down to the bottom line and put this information out that's been hidden and prevented from being uncovered for all of these years and that's where we are going we will see how far it goes down, is it just the biden family or also affecting government like d.o.j. and fbi who have been paid off or just covering up for power? we need to get down to it. >> chair will demand d.o.j. send over documents and irs whistleblower was political obstruction in the d.o.j. probe into hunter biden. this is following the money trail and now the pole half of independent say yes, impeach

president biden. it's not just inquiry, they are talking about impeaching him. >> i think those numbers are telling because i think the democrats are trying to show it as just republican access and they are going overboard and the american people are behind it but the numbers are telling a different story, people realize there is something that deserves to be looked at. i don't think they can have faith there wasn't political interference in the investigation and one of the most surprising aspects is hunter biden is basically engaging in negation frenzy suing everyone around him which to me is a terrible mistake. i think lawsuit will probably be deemed meritless but will keep a spotlight on this and keep the story in the news and put attention of america on all the problems hunter biden and his administration are confronting. >> you were terrific, thanks both of you for helping us, it's good to see you. let's bring back into the show,

chairman, kevin o'leary, it's good to see you again. democrats are urging biden to show up on the strike, trump is meeting next week with workers but the white house is blocking. the ua has not endorsed them, what do you think about this? >> it's a very significant issue developing but as an investor what i'm looking at, what is the likely outcome of this negotiation? you think about the automotive sector, it's not only domestic but in local competition, every country is not advancing on ev and automotive manufacturing particularly china doing low cost options so let's talk where we are right now, all of this is positioning who shows up and who supports who but here's the deal, general motors offered seven and a half% increase. the likely outcome is 20 to 25% wage increase, very infla

inflationary. here is the killer. the union wants a reduction in the workweek down to 32 to 34 hours. we cannot do that to america. we be so unproductive, uncompetitive in this sector we get slaughtered by our competitors if we did that and we are just dealing with detroit, we got competition domestically with tesla going on here so if you reduce the workweek to 32 to 34 hours, you're talking 50, 60% increase in costs, the industry can't do that. it will go bankrupt again so i don't know how this will play out but somebody has to understand these are no can do deals. >> four day work week, bernie sanders saying you a w reported this workweek. what's happening, they are blaming biden for job loss in this electric car push. 117,000 jobs could be lost in

biden's transition to ev and now they you a w threatening to expand the site tomorrow if they don't get what they want by friday. we are hearing they can bankroll until thanks giving. >> but that doesn't settle the policy issue. whether it biden or somebody else who says we should have a top-down mandate of a product like electric vehicles, that's not how the market works. the market has to be left alone and be the market. if people want to buy ivs, they will buy them. you can't mandate this from the top, it's not going to work. it's going to cause chaos in the infrastructure of the automotive sector it's not really a political issue, it's a policy issue. this can't go on, it's very bad we tried to negotiate labor and at the same time say we are going to mandate ev's when the market doesn't want them, but

the market be the market and stop making the mandates. >> top stop trying to do market coercion but what's happening right now, you are not hearing the white house talk about how they have mandated electric cars. they are pretty much backing off and they are silent about this. let's listen to the president here. >> the great american road trip will be fully electrified. >> investing $135 billion to advance america's electric vehicle feature. >> i announced $52 million grant for the american rescue plan, that the partnership in detroit including the big three united on workers and trained workers and extract factories for electric vehicle revolution. >> it feels like the u.s. is living in a wild moment right now, a big science project that went awry. auto dealers now say they don't want electric cars on their lots. inventory has been doubling

unsold since spring. ap markle, 47% don't want to buy an electric car. market coercion doesn't work here. >> america is the greatest economy on earth, it doesn't matter who's in the white house. the reason is so powerful and successful hundreds of years people make their own decisions. nobody likes to be told what to buy or what to do. let the market the market and we will have and continue to have the most successful economy on earth. this centralized control top-down mandates, it's not how america works. i don't care who's in the white house if this is bad policy. it's not just politics, that policy at the time when we can't afford to do that, the automotive sector negotiating wage increases, very bad policy. >> kevin o'leary, come back, we loved having you on. coming up tonight, former utah congress and jason chaffetz, press secretary to donald trump, hogan and retired sgt. ricky

smith, all ready to go. james horrible sounds the alarm on biden's siding poll numbers. alex nester is here. why is it the teachers union boss randi weingarten way in defending on the strike? why is she talking about all of this? public schools are failing. talk about that. coming up on "the evening edit". ♪ 's. >> all of a sudden when it's about our students, they challenge it, the corporations challenge it. student loan challenges that. that is not right

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would notify students if their children identify as transgender. it's a string of decisions by this county school board that has parents concerned. officially fairfax county schools does not teach crt but some parents worry about projects being sent home that could polarize kids by gender or race. >> i think this school board eroded the trust of the community because they've stated they are trying to marginalize parental involvement so the trust has been broken and needs to be reestablished. >> other parents worry school boards moved away from basic reading, writing and math as parents get alienated. >> sensitive topics like anything to do with race or religion or gender identity, that's in the home. that's the families job to discuss those topics, not the job of the school to tell the kids. you search in of government power. >> emily harris went after florida last week for what she

says is reteaching a version of slavery. >> to suggest we should not pay attention to race, not pay attention to gender, should not pay attention to where people start out and then make allowances for how they can compete equally. >> and of the fight over what kids read elevated to a senate hearing. john kennedy read from two books children have access to, most of which could not be aired on tv. >> but they want it in school libraries. thank you so much, alex nester from parents defending education. this story coming in, hundreds of students in pennsylvania valley school district walked out of class after local school board, the school board failed to enact a policy requiring transgender students to use the bathrooms corresponding with their biological sex. you have been all over this, parents are talking about lawsuits based on constitution. the intentional violation of children's fundamental right to

privacy and includes 14 a minute, are you seeing this? >> we are seeing it and hear this from parents all the time. you brought up a very important issue about parental exclusion in schools. there are over 1000 school districts with policies that say parents might not know if and when the chillers decide to live as the opposite that at school including using different restrooms and locker rooms. i think all kids need to be in the classroom especially right now when we know scores in math and reading and history are done but these girls are upset because the adults in charge are failing them and the feelings of a small group of people over there, they are not protecting the girls in this district. >> watch this mom here on this subject. >> they are making these policies without taking into consideration how they affect

the students and how uncomfortable it is just to be a teenager in general but now have to be faced with the invasion of their privacy in those areas where they should deal safe and private. >> so why doesn't the safety matter most, why isn't that priority? >> it's a great question. the biden ministrations proposed changes to title ix would expand protections to people based on gender identity and not biological sex. most americans disagree with that push and these changes. like this mother said and like we see all over the place, parents just want to be involved every step of the way. schools are pushing away parents and shifting toward these policies we know most parents don't want to see in the kids schools. >> with got randi weingarten head of the teachers union, she's talking about the uaw hollywood strikes and defending the white house and u.s.

manufacturing as public schools have been failing. you will see this and we want your reaction and new york democrat jerry nadler seemingly oblivious to biden's border crisis hitting new york city public schools. watch this. >> let me say it this way -- look at what's happening in both the entertainment industry and in the auto industry. look at what's happening in terms of ai and what president biden has done in terms of giving the auto industry the kind of tax credits and other credits true inflation reduction act and other things to do that transition, the workers have to be part of that. look what happened, manufacturing is coming back to america. made in america is now a thing so let's actually invest in the workers who have made these companies more profitable.

>> the schools in new york city. >> what about them? >> jerry mathers reaction. what about them? why is randi weingarten -- manufacturing numbers were wr wrong. they seem to be all over the map when it comes to what really matters to families and schoolchildren. >> we know she's not in it for the kids. first and foremost. joe biden, the whole electric vehicle push is part of this. workers are striking over that because they know overtime is going to be, their jobs will be cut and who wouldn't want a 46% increase in their wages -- >> but getting back to schools, the school issue you going to see parents and parental rights groups like yours, are you going to file lawsuits based on the constitutional rights to privacy? >> when we file our lawsuit, it

is a long process. when we have clear examples and information, obviously these are cases we are interested in and want to look at here so we got a case in iowa and ohio right now that uncovered this very issue and we are always looking for more bites. >> thank you for coming on tonight. we got this story coming up. we are finding even more states happening now in california and colorado. the debate is on to try to keep from the president trump off state ballots. why that push is going to fail and also, former utah congressman jason chaffetz is here and he's fired up. democrat strategist james, he's sounding the alarm for the new york times on biden's plunging poll numbers. we got the story coming up.

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okay, u.s. government hit an all stork his work all-time high. unfazed and untroubled, they want to force all u.s. companies to go next zero. guess heading to possibly $5, oil $100 a barrel. hilary vaughn has this story on capitol hill. >> good evening, the biden administration spending $400 million of taxpayer cash to help president biden achieve his green goals by making new construction more crime from the end they are using their power to convince investment groups to continue to invest in climate from the things that promote the presence climate pledge. the biden administration started to take applications to get the $400 million and going out to help states have more energy efficient building codes. the idea that new buildings

would be built with better more energy-efficient construction. today treasury secretary janet yellen telling asset managers their pledge to be net zero should include oracle to limit the global temperature. the way to get there, invest in people making the switch from coal to solar or wind. advising quote some forms of financing they align with several of practices, capital directed to utility company replacing old power with solar and wind generation. the money to pay for these new building codes is coming from the inflation reduction act. goldman sachs now says green subsidies and that will cost upwards of $1.2 trillion, three times more than what they formerly thought. >> thank you so much, they never seem to shut off federal office building lights or shut them down to 25% full. former utah congressman jason

chaffetz, that was quite a story. what you think? >> you will spend almost $400 billion on this and the inflation reduction act and what she reported, oops, we were off. it's three times bigger than that. again, nobody can answer the question, does that get you at the end of the day? much does that reduce the temperature? they can't answer these questions. it always involves more taxpayer money by the hundreds of billions of dollars. >> that is the answer in the issue, this story coming in, president biden told the new york city fundraiser last night quote, i get it about my age. now you have james cargill telling the new york times democrats may not get the voter turnout they want because of the issue by being too old to run again. what you think, jason? >> is not just his age, it's his

lack of cognitive abilities. he's just not very agile. the poor communicator to start with and make things up. he lacks confidence in energy and having to bow out of events. this is the most vigorous job in the world. you wouldn't even let joe biden fly an airplane, why are we letting him fly the country? he's not getting good backup from kamala harris. she's a poor communicator as well but the fundamental problem i think is that policies. you implement policies they've done in the economy is flailing and they could try to roll out this various statistics and tell you it's better than you think but people know when they fill up their f1 50, it will cost them north of $100 and they don't like it. >> hunter biden will plead not guilty to federal gun charges. we knew that was coming but we want to show you this fight, will watch about president biden's polling, the media is

not taking it on or comprehending but this is an issue and treasury secretary yellen not able to explain why americans are so unhappy with biden's economy. >> i'm sorry, he's not up to the job? democrats might be concerned about his age. >> majority of democrats believe he's too old and they don't want him to run again. >> but they like the job he's doing. >> do they want him to run again or not? >> sure. >> a disconnect between the numbers we are seeing and how you account for it. >> i agree there is a disconnect and i don't have a simple convincing answer. >> no simple convincing answer. let's show the viewer, this cnn poll, majority of democrat voters saying the president should not run again. why isn't the media, why isn't

the biden white house officials, why don't they understand this is an issue for voters? >> the secretary of the treasury doesn't have an answer to this so why do they think masses of americans would have the right answer on this? they just don't get it, they don't want to believe it. >> we will keep reporting the facts. jason chaffetz, we appreciate you coming in, we will have you on again soon. >> brand-new video coming in, carjackers stole a martin from a home garage in a predominately safe neighborhood in westport connecticut. the owner was still in the car. also former deputy press secretary hogan, the push to keep former president trump state ballots coming up on the evening edit. >> the monopoly party in this country.

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look who's here, former deputy press secretary to former president trump, hogan gidley. good to see you. california democrats are asking for democrat california attorney general rob bonta to get into court to keep former president trump off california's 2024 primary ballot based on the 14th amendment about you can't have insurrection and run for office. what you think of this push?

>> he wasn't charged with insurrection but they are going to try to use it to kick him off the ballot? is insane but california is a horrible state for a lot of reasons. the policies usually don't make sense and hurt the people they are supposed to protect so it's obvious california would leave the fight here. it's a dumb idea across the country. someone like jonathan turley, a really good well-established smart, brilliant, legal mind saying it's one of the most dangerous theories we could even entertain using and if you opened the door, if you break discuss, understand democrats that it's broken. i'd be less concerned about the 14th a minute here and i'd be more concerned about the 25th amendment removing the president from being incapacitated joe biden clearly is. >> we have more than 13 states debating this. new hampshire recently said no but there's a lawsuit to keep trump off colorado ballot that reportedly will be hurt by judge later this fall. >> it's going to be invoked, no

question, a lot of states are trying to do this because they are afraid of it. he's leading the polls amongst republicans by 40, 50, 60-point and now pulls coming out swing states saying donald trump's ahead of joe biden. joe biden tries to pretend as though all the problems we face in this country are happening to him. but they are happening because of him. the american people know they are paying more for gas and groceries and rent and car payments, everything is worse off now. we are not energy independent, we rely on foreign nations to heat and cool our homes to drive our cars. wars of breaking out all over the world, crime is up. the border is a mess, 35000 people coming across the last three, four days. these are all joe biden's problems and they know they are not popular with the american people so the democrats are doing what they do, utilizing the system to try and stifle, stop, sensor and silence any opposition and it so happens to be the former president donald trump saying the polls are

squashing this one. >> now we got president biden saying trump and maga republicans are going to destroy american democracy. what is your answer to that? >> nothing new. he said this before but the fact is the american people want change in the white house. they see somebody who frankly, isn't up for the job. he's in steep cognitive decline, physical decline regardless of where he is, questions in front of him and no what reporters to call on. he's got the answers in front of him, he can't get through it so he can chirp and chime in about maga extremists all he wants, it's the left's opinion, the left policies that do not put the american people first and they are rejected by mass numbers across the country. maga agenda, make america great mantra is supported by 70 to 80% of the people. they don't want foreign wars,

they want cheap gas, cheap groceries, it's the biden policies in the extreme and the american people don't like them. they are rejecting them and that's why they want somebody different. >> with got it. hogan gidley, thank you for joining us. we got the story coming in, a major storm blowing in. we are seeing government waste and abuse piling up and the government shutdown right. also coming up, police veteran retired sgt. bessie smith. stealing a home garage and predominately safe neighborhood in westport connecticut. don't you want to hear what's coming up at the bottom line? let's find out with dagen and sean. >> we have joe biden beating climate change to "at the control. we have steve forbes talking about the uaw in washington running the auto industry.

>> the fine state of montana on governors of half the union, 25 states want to know, how many migrants are crossing the border? plus congressman mike kelly on left-wing lawmakers, want to stop financing fossil fuel projects. ♪ can't make it up. we dig in and get mad. top of the hour.

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from comcast business. it's not just possible. it's happening. look who's back, retired chicago area police officer, the one and only sgt. bessie brenner smith. sgt., you seen it all, you seen so much in your stellar career but you look at this while video thieves stealing broad daylight out of the garage and a safe neighborhood in connecticut. the guy was sitting in his car. how do you think suburban voters will react to this? >> i hope they understand that they need to pay attention to who they are electing on their city councils and who is there prosecutor and sheriff. they just announced they arrested a couple of people for this crime and they found for other high-end vehicles and

firearm with extended magazine, the 16-year-old is in custody and a couple of people charged with everything including theft of the vehicle and strangulation. that's one thing we are seeing, these carfax are turning into violent crimes because they don't wait for you to leave the car, they just pull you out of it and do what they've got to do to you and take your car. incredibly dangerous. >> a 16-year-old in the gang arrested. you bought crime for years, you fought crime for years in illinois, what you think as illinois to fully get rid of cash bail? this went into effect yesterday, was going to happen with crime? war criminals on the streets? when is it going to stop? >> that's the thing. who's the first person they let go no cash bail in illinois? a woman who pepper sprayed for police officers, she was the

first one to get out. this is going to wreak havoc on the state of illinois. my native state of illinois is the number one most flood state in this country. our government doesn't seem to want to do anything and the mayor of chicago and suburban mayors, they think it's a great idea. i'm hoping voters however, have had enough and they start to vote out local politicians and pro- criminal policies. >> minnesota seeing record police staffing. d.c. seeing record lows. you see it in new york and l.a., crime is so bad in the backyard of congress and the white house, police officials held a special briefing with lawmakers on capitol hill staffers on how they can avoid being crime victims, isn't it striking how you see silence from the democrats? you see as 29% spike in homicides? violent crime up 38% to where is

the defined police movement now? >> the d.c. city council just tried to rewrite their entire and put a stop to it but now what they have to do is have basically crime prevention classes for politicians and their staff because it's getting so incredibly dangerous in the district and surrounding areas but you are right, the politicians seem to be quiet about it but we have a lot of city and county elections coming up in november. the american voter needs to pay attention to those local elections and pay attention to who you are electing, do they care about your safety or their own political group? >> minnesota democratic representative angie craig assaulted in the elevator of her apartment building. a staffer for senator rand paul

stabbed multiple times in march walking down the. how do we look to the world on this? >> i actually travel internationally and i have a lot of international police officers saying to me, what are you doing in america? why are you letting criminals out on no bail? why aren't you prosecuting? why do you let district attorney's control what happens to your people? >> sgt. betsy brantner smith, thank you for your service to our country. you are a hero. we've got citizens against government waste, we got a major pork hurricane, a pork storm blowing in. government waste and abuse piling up in the governor piling up in the governor shutdown, you won't believe what we are finding out coming up on "the evening edit". ♪

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elizabeth: well, look who's here from citizens against government waste, he's tom schatz. you're the perfect if guy to the talk to about this. we needed you on this story. looks like there's a big pork hurricane in the government's shutdown fight. we've got heritage foundation, long list here. tom, what do you think of this? first up, senators chuck humor and kirstin gillibrand of new york, they want more than a million bucks for environmental justice organization, and hen there's $3.5 million for parade balloons in michigan? if i mean, is anybody minding the store in d.c.?

>> the the parade balloon story is interesting because on the company's web site, it says they do not get any money from the federal government, and that would certainly change that. and the million dollars to the group in new york, the quote-unquote environmental justice group, they have a budget of about $4.8 million, so they don't need any more of the taxpayers' money. it's typical of the appropriations bills. there's more pressure at the end of the year with a shutdown. there's really only been one time in history that a government shutdown hasn't led to more spending, and that was a deal way back in 1996. elizabeth: sow -- so, yeah, a way back in '99 # 6. a $4 million sewer hine for a city of less than 100 people in the tiny city of pelican, alaska? that's more than 40 grand per person. and then a tiny airport in maine gets $20 the.5 million for their minuscule international airport? this is like the bridges to nowhere fight under george w.

bush. >> well,s the airport has two flights a day by united airlines to knew work, which is their, quote-unquote, international connection, and it's the only open two hours for the first flight and two hours for the second flight. so that is a massive waste of money. people can drive to the nearest airport, it'd be cheaper to buy them all cars, the people that leave there. earmarks, pork come out all the way, and the house, by the way run by republicans, 7.4 billion, and republicans are taking about 70% of those ear earmarks. if they really wanted to cut pending, they would cut the aeromarkings as well, but with -- earmarks as well, but they like bringing home the bacon. elizabeth: don't we have a record level of debt right now? >> i think so. every day it's a record, and yet they are not doing enough to cut spending. again, the house budget committee's trying. they have a bill that would the budget, or a budget, i should say, that would be in balance in

10 years. the senate's already said no. they want to cut 8%. you can cut 0% anywhere and -- 10% anywhere and get done what you need to get done, but here in washington the answer is let's go create a new program instead of solving problems. elizabeth: that's the issue voters are looking at right now. they see it. they see their tax dollars, you know, going out door towards stuff like. weren't earmarks banned by congress in the wake of that infamous bridge to nowhere in alaska? >> they were in fiscal year 2011, and then they brought them back. and the republicans in the house, unfortunately, two-thirds of them voted to bring them back because they don't understand that earmarks are the most corrupt, costly and inequitable practice in the history of congress. money goes mostly to the members of the appropriations committees, leadership like chuck schumer that we've already mentioned x it's an a unfair and really expensive way to do this because members vote for these expensive appropriations bills because they get a few million

dollars for their districts. elizabeth: who's the worst offender? >> well, gen was the former senator richard shelby. we haven't fund out yet this year, but last year he was the the top pork and, of course, he's a republican. from what i've read in the house, the top 60 recipients so far are all republicans, and in one bill alone, 365 members, each of them got 1 earmark. elizabeth: goodness gracious. tom schatz, thanks for joining us. it's good to have you on the show. we'll stay on the story. tomorrow night we've got tom emmer, house judiciary chair jim jordan, art laffer, former economic adviser to president trump, steve moore: a jam-packed show for you, let's send it over to dagen and sean and "the bottom line." dagen: thank you so much, e-mac. ♪ ♪