points, first of all, let the idf do its job. wipe out hamas and take care of the hostages. they know what they're doing. second, united states wants to help re-impose the toughest economic energy, banking, commerce and business sanctions on iran. bankrupt iran will be a huge help to israel because it's iran that banks hamas and hezbollah for that matter. those are my two points. trust the idf and re-impose the sanctions and then everybody's got to watch liz macdonald right here, right there, following. elizabeth: thank you, larry. what you said about iran would help the world too. great stuff. tonight, this is being called absurd, iran negotiate ago deal

to swap hostages for air strikes in a war that's ignited but critics playing fire fighter and the white house contradicts themselves over iran. fbi director warns about a rise in terror threats and biden collapses the boarder and powerful donors push universities to condemn protest against israel and iran and arab nations called out for not taking in palestinians. there's a new report special council david wise investigating hint biden is jim jordan score as major win in the bat toll be house speaker. new constitutional fight over a judge put ago new partial gag order on president trump. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now.

♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. esteem and would highly respected retired general joining us and served as land component director and brent sadler, a 26 year navy veteran. gentlemen, good to have you on. great to see you. general, first to you, do you believe the reuters report that iran will not assist hamas and engage in military action against israel unless israel attacks iran. now talking about a hostage swap deal in negotiations for stopping a strike and do you believe this? people are saying it's absurd and arsonist playing fire fighterrer and that's a tinderbox. what do you think? >> good afternoon, liz. not really sure on this but i do know that iran in some ways may have said that as a face saving measure. knowing that if they were to strike at israel, the u.s.

military moving two strike groups to mediterranean and they'll have to tango with the power of u.s. military if they did that. but let there be no doubt that iran is behind certainly the funding of and they're behind and a bit of strong backer and supplier to hezbollah as well as others in the middle east. iran has been doing this proxy war against united states and allies in the region for decades. elizabeth: what the general just said, what do you think, brian, because isn't it an indication that iran is behind this despite white house denials if it's all of a sudden brokering deals here? >> welshing absolutely. there's moray than circumstantial evidence backing up the fact that iran has been actively supporting hamas and gaza as well as hezbollah in southern lebanon for the last two years in planning and preparation for this specific

series of events. >> if these actions continue and they're begun that lose proxies in hamas and may even lose them in hezbollah. if they continue down this path. i think it's real unfortunately for the world completely validated and vindicate in the gaza and basically to put an end to hamas. certainly that should be the low bar. elizabeth: israel is evacuated 28 border towns up near lebanon as hezbollah and israel are exchanging rocket fire, two israeli citizens now dead. do you think israel can shut down hamas for good? >> i think they can. in fact, they have to. they have to eliminate hamas. similar to what the coalition did against isis. and i do believe that the idf

can do that militarily. the big question is what happens in a post hamas gaza, and that's what israel has to figure out. eventually there's got to be a peaceful solution to the two state palestine and israel elizabeth: are you believing these reports, brent, that u.s. troops could deploy to the region? >> well, i think it's a very prudent thing i think you're talking about recent call up of about 2,000 service measures. that's a prudent measure and special forces to go in and opportunity avails to get american hostages out of gaza or else r. i don't think there's any indication of the united states going in directly in direct support with israel in gaza and no indication and doesn't serve u.s. interest and would complicate the battle space for israel going into a highly urban kind of environment, which is very complex for military operations.

elizabeth: there's concern of mission creep and sending our men and women in there. white house messages on what it's done with iran is all over the map. the president recently moved to release $6 billion for iranian regime and biggest state sponsor of terror and white house is accused of not enforcing sanctions against iran and it's 4 billion under tram and 80 billion in oil sales. brent, get your reaction. general, first to you and president here and watch the pushback against what the president is saying. watch this. >> iran behind the gaza war? >> i don't want to get into classified information but to be very blunt with you, there's no clear evidence of that. >> at this point no evidence that iran is behind any of this? >> correct. >> of course iran is complicit here and of course they're resources and training to hamas and it's helped hamas function and be able to conduct the terrorist attacks they've been able to conduct. >> notion that iran has been a speck stater in the crisis is on

outrageous lie because the iranian government has sponsored, has financed, we have considerable, credible reporting that suggests they played on operational role in planning this atrocity. elizabeth: so is the white house really -- is the president really going to have us believe 20 year-olds in the gaza strip somehow got rockets and ammunition and weapons to slaughter 1300 israelis? general, what's your reaction to saying there's no evidence that iran is involved here? >> well, clearly hamas has been supported and financed and supplied by iran. is similar to hezbollah. what the president is talking about and he'll have to answer for himself is specifically on this operation and the timing, did iran know about that? that's still in question. we don't know about that, but regardless of that, iran is a supporter of hamas. they've got blood on their hands also. so that's one reason why iran is

in check right now based on the movements of the u.s. military and what america and ally haves said in the region. that's why they did that face saving move of saying, okay, we're not going to attack israel as long as they don't attack us. they don't intend to do this and that's why the question omelets up whether or not hamas surprised iran on this and this is something iran may have not wanted to do. but let there be no doubt, there's blood on iranian hands. elizabeth: brent, your final word. >> it's important to note that earlier in the year in march, you had iran indicating to hamas that they were not satisfied with their level of vigor and aggressiveness against the israelis at the threat of actually cutting funding. so there is that too in addition to public statements made by senior leaders of hamas as well of iran's support. elizabeth: okay, major general dana and brent sadler, thank you

for your service to america and we appreciate your insights and perspective here. thank you for joining us. joining us from homeland security, senator ron johnson. what do you make of this story, now the president and fbi director wray and nsc spokesman john kirby say there's potential terror threats against americans inside the u.s., but the president collapsed the border. look at the numbers, 7.6 million illegal border crossings. we're tracking more than 1,042 terrorist caught trying to cross the border. what do you make of the president here? >> totally out to lunch. they're now first concerned about the national security threat of the open border policy as presenting to america. we've had about 1.7 million known got aways during the biden administration and close to 6 million people have been apprehend, not even apprehended and encounterered and disbursed

throughout america and enormous amount of people but 1.7 million known got aways and we don't know who they are and they got through the bodder without being enoriented or processed and you think there maybe a terrorist or two in there? more than 50 nations have been represented and people coming in illegally. hundreds of people on the terror watch list and this is the first time fbi director and president of the united states is publicly now seeing the fact that this just might be a threat to national security and he's just out to lunch. elizabeth: it took just 19 terrorists from saudi arabia to bring down the world trade center and, you know what, let's take a listen to what the president is saying here and the fbi director, watch this, >> in this lightened environment, there's no question we're seeing an increase in reported threats and we've got to be on the lout and especially for l lone actors that may take inspiration from

recent event to commit violence of their own. >> what we're seeing in the middle east is the threat of terrorism in the united states increased. >> we're making a major effort to make sure that doesn't happen. >> people on a terror list or family member or associate, we're at report numbers for how worried are you -- >> we're concerned -- elizabeth: so, senator, is concerned good enough? the president now says we're working hard to stop things after the fact. after he collapsed the border. >> listen the president's priorities are out of wack and he thinks probably the greatest threat facing america is climate change and spent hundreds of billions probably trillions combating that and fbi, department of justice said they've been tracking down, anybody in washington dc on january 6 and so we're not focusing on the real problem here and the fact we're

mortgaging our kid's future and open boarder and millions of people come in illegally and 1.7 is a got away. and then the further -- the extent you're weakening this country is elmore boldening our enemy overseas as well. elizabeth: critics say it's make america last under this white house. look at first two weeks of fiscal year and border patrol apprehended more than 30 iranians and five dozen syrianens and more than 100 russians and nearly 300 afghannies and chinese illegal immigrants at the border. is speaker mccarthy, former speaker mccarthy saying we don't know if there's a terror cell currently inside our country. have you heard anything about that? are you worried about that? i'm worried about it. i haven't heard any specific briefing on that . talking about 1.7 million people cross the board their never were even encountered by border patrol, you need to be concerned and it's nice that president biden finally is.

he is -- it's his open border policy that's made america vulnerable this way. i've said in the past if you're asked to develop the strategy to destroy the country and hard press to come up with one than what biden administration is implementing and daneous vender in afghanistan and -- surveillance render in afghanistan and 40-year high inflation and we need better leaders that certainly than what president biden is providing us. elizabeth: senator johnson, thanks for joining us tonight. good to have you on. tonight, senator kevin cramer, carlos jimenez, sam dewey and cj pearson all eyes on capitol hill. house judiciary chair jim jordan has the support of several gop skeptics ahead of tomorrow's planned vote for speaker. former deputy assistant general attorney john yoo and new bomb shell report and doj investigate e.g. and so is the special

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deputy assistant john yoo. john, you've studied this case, you've watched this progress, this is a big development. usa today bomb shell reports of the justice department and special council david wise are investigating hunter biden for foreign agent lobbying violations of the law and helping the family to make millions of dollars off of deals overseas hawaii do you think of this story? >> this is a story that's long time and coming, and shows how slow the justice department has been, how it's dragged its heels to investigate hunter biden. anyone who's seen the testimony on the hill from the government oversight committee involving hunter biden's par partners or e whistle blower testimony and the investigations funneled millions to hunter biden is he discussed trying to influence the government that . is a violation of the foreign

agents registration act if you don't -- if hunter did not disclose that to the government. could be up to five years in prison, up to $250,000 fine. why else was a company like burisma, why else were chinese companies giving huge sums to hunter bind with no experience in oil and gas industry and high level international finance? they're buying influence. elizabeth: john, usa today reports special council david wise is investigating whether charges should be brought. apparently they told a federal judge, david wise's team that charges could be possible against hunter biden. none have been filed and again, these are reports out of usa today. we also have seen, you know, reports about hunter biden's laptops, e-mails and text messages and the biden family and hunter biden set up the off balance sheet shell companies to bury the cash flows from overseas and not have to register as foreign agents with

the u.s. government. what do you make of all that? >> what would be shocks, shocking is that he were investigated for violating this statute because all of these indicators, concealing with the money came from and who it went to and levels and levels of shell corporations and looks like an effort to hide the money, an effort to conceal from the government that you are actually taking these multimillion dollar payments from countries not friendly to us like china and russia and then to use this the half of the companies and countries, his connections to obviously his father and other government officials he knows because of his father to try and influence the government. that's what the foreign agents registration act is designed to try to stop or at least if you do it, disclose it in public sot government knows about it. seems to be the opposite of what the bidens are trying to do and that's conceal it over.

elizabeth: charges over concealment as well because you know this, general michael flynn was hit with violations over a phone call. this is extensive. we're talking house oversight finding documents that hunter bind was talking to china about selling liquid natural gas out of five u.s. states. that hunter biden was working with the lobbying firm to lobby obama's state department to help burisma. so it goes on and on and gone but then tram's team, trump's aid gets hit with the farah violation over a phone call. >> the moving money around in miz tier yous ways and not report -- mysterious ways and not reporting it and that's what you see by drug cartels and criminal enterprises and laundering the money and getting into the real banking system because the hard thing for criminals is how do you get cash and put into the normal economy?

unfortunately that's the kind of conduct from hunter and assistants. if they want this to go away, put it all out in public. make it easy for the investigators to find it. show all the bank accounts. why hide it all? >> final word, vice president joe biden apparently knew what hunter biden was doing with the overseas deals and he was the one behind going after general michael flynn again over that phone call with the foreign lobbying violation. final word. >> well, if this is the thing that i think the house has got to dig into because the u.s. attorney and special council has been nowhere near this, which is how closely was vice president and now president biden involved. that's really the important question here. elizabeth: john yoo, you're terrific. thanks for joining us tonight. gatt good to see you. >> thank you. elizabeth: this story, 180, chuck schumer denouncing u.s. protest supporting hamas and against israel but also now criticizing the far left democrat squad for attacking

israel. congressman carlos jimenez joining us and -- carlos gimenez joining us and jim jordan score ago big win ahead of the floor vote tomorrow. that's coming up on "the evening edit".

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us looking for another leader, et cetera, makes no sense whatsoever. 96% ---elizabeth: sorry, forgive me. with the eight house republicans change their vote suddenly? >> no, but now 210 of us have to change our vote for the eight. we voted for mccarthy. this is bizarre where eight republicans tell us the 210 we have to choose somebody else because eight of them along with 208 democrats decided to oust kevin mccarthy. where in the would does that make sense? elizabeth: does is seem weird that the eight will change their vote to go back to mccarthy? >> i'd rather 210 change eight than eight change 210. we're doing contortion because the eight align themselves with the democrats. who are the real republicans here? the eight that aligned themselves with the democrats or

the 210 that wanted to keep our republican speaker in his chair? elizabeth: looks like house judiciary chair jim jordan got a major win locking down vote from house armed services chair mike rogers. mike rogers was intensely opposed to jordan as house speaker as late as last friday and defense haabs were worry that had jordan cuts spending for the pentagon and signaling he's not going to do that and knew buchanan and wagner going for jordan. would you at the end of the day and all else fails, go for jordan? >> the problems i have right now they started on voting for kevin mccarthy but the tactics used in this race and misinformation. people are calling me -- not calling me but there's tweets about me that i'm somehow going to vote for jeffries for speaker of the how many times i was one of the guys that voted to keep kevin mccarthy, all right. the only way that jeffries can become speaker of the house is because of the chaos caused by matt gaetz. i've been consist.

we need to go back to kevin mccarthy. elizabeth: it's now two weeks without a speaker and senators are shocked at the mayhem in the house. we've got this new usa today -- people want to get a move on. house republicans want to get a move on. divot wise is investigating hunter biden for breaking foreign lobbying laws and new ap poll and 35% of u.s. adults think the president did something illegal. show the poll? 33% think he behaved unethically and time to get a move on with the nation's business. >> i agree, 100%. look, one of the things this episode has brought out is we need to have a way for the speaker pro tem to have power and everything stopped because of one individual is insane. the fact it hasn't come to light for 250 years and now we know. imagine in the future and some speaker g gets injured or has an

illness and incapacitated for weeks and months. the business of the house stops? we need to rectify it right now and we get on the way of choosing our speaker. i'd rather get it right than get it fast. that's what i want to do. elizabeth: well, the fears of u.s. recession is growing, the fed's raising rates to battle inflation. mohamed el-erian see as lot of comparisons to the banking crash of 2008 when banks tightened lending standards and a holt of americans saying it's time to move on. >> i think you need to ask matt gaetz why he put us in this position. i think we need to get the right speaker so we can be unified and it doesn't happen again in the future. that's what we need. we don't need -- because i fear if this goes on and this somehow ouster is finalized, then we will have this again in the future and god knows what situation we're going to be. we don't need that. we need to go back and

re-instate kevin mccarthy because he's the rightful leader of this party. elizabeth: got it. thank you. lawmakers and gop contenders call out iran, call out arab nations like jordan, for closing and shutting the door to palestinians as the war rages on not letting them in. the squad is saying bring them here but what about the arab nations taking them in like iran? also the fight over u.s. protests supporting hamas, democrat senator chuck schumer steps out of the democrat box and criticizes the far left squad, aoc, cori bush, and'indian that pressoly's attacks on israel and rashida tlaib. that's coming up on the eveningg edit".

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elizabeth: okay. america's elite colleges and universities now increasingly pressured by wall street financkers and of israel and outside harvard university in cambridge, massachusettss, where the latest. mollie. >> good evening, liz, a week after the horrific attack on israel, there were protest here on harvard's campus. on sunday, more than 1,000 gathered outside the library for a vigil to stand in solidarity for the victims. many held candles and some wrapping themselves in israeli flags. the day before in harvard yard, more than a thousand rallied supporting gaza and rooting out hamas and rescuing children. organized by graduate students formal stein, they called on graduates to stand with

palestinians under siege. harvard president claw dean gay pushed back on calls to hold student groups accountable after more than two dozen call #-d israel entirely responsible for unfolding violence saying the university both rejects terrorism including the atrocities perpetrated by hamas and the free expression. >> that extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. had we do not pun irk or sanction people for expressing such views. >> as rallies represent the on going attentions on campuses and one college president, former senator ben sass, president of the university of florida called out elite cassioppi deem that as weakened dc -- academia as weakened confusion. >> why don't some of the university presidents stand up and read the hamas charter on their campus then grapple with the call for the genocide and eradication of the jewish

people. >> the way university leadership responded to the hamas attack on israel may cost some big money and wealthy donors are contemplating or promising to drop future donations. liz. elizabeth: great to see you. always great journalism. joining us is the host of the wrapup and cj pearson and we have to ask you, don't jewish lives matter? >> they do. i find it absolutely disgusting but not surprising to see the same universities that groomed on entire generation of young people to hate america have now groomed them to hate israel too. our strongest ally in the middle east all in the name of woke. liz, wouldn't did if become woke to stand by terrorists and stand by people killing innocent, raping young women, kidnapping little boys and little girls? this is how dilutional these people are disgusting.

there's no two sides, there's one side and it's the side of good and that's israel. elizabeth: it's good versus evil and now chuck schumer denouncing the protests against israel and protests in favor of hamas. when he was asked about the democrat squad support of hamas, he reportedly said "if a threat of hamas is not eliminated, they'll do it again. and the irony is hamas would have killed those same individuals that are backing them in those protests. senator schumer said iran will never see another penny of $6 billion in frozen funds and senator schumer is pushing back on his own party. >> good for him but he has a tough road ahead of reporter: you're absolutely right a. lot of people proteges the streets on behalf of hamas would be kill if they ever even stepped foot into gaza. i've been seeing these t-shirts that say queers for palestine and reminds me of chickens being for kfc. makes zero sense whatsoever and they don't know that because they live in some cosmopolitan elitist environment and they've never even been exposed to the

real world whatsoever and it's a shame. elizabeth: cj, listen to senator marco rubio and he wants legislation to stop these colleges and universities holding demonstrations in support of terrorists and you'll see, gnat torr -- former senator ben sasse here and former president of the university of florida. >> you do not have a first amendment right to argue on behalf of terrorist organization in this country, one that not only has committed violence but has pledged to commit even more violence in the future and we most certainly should not be subsidizing with federal taxpayer dollars paying for student aid so all the wack koenens can go to school and be further indoct indoctrinated ane murder of jews. why are we paying for this? >> so many universities around the country speaking about every topic under the sun, halloween costumes and micro-aggressions and somehow at a moment of the most grave, grotesque attacks on jewish people since the holocast, they all of a sudden say there's too much complexity

to say anything? elizabeth: what do you think, cj? >> i'm a staunch advocate of freedom of speech and you're not free in your speech. some people on the internet seek to end defend these state of the unions from being blacklisted from the job because they stand by the terrorist organizations. no, these people need to learn the lesson these words are not okay and they'll never be okay. what's interesting to me is that all of the leftists created cancel culture and now they're somehow against it when people are holding them accountable for making the decision to stand by a terrorist organization that's killing innocent people. no, they can lose their jobs and they can learn their lesson, and it's been something we've had to deal with on the right for a long, long time, and i have no sympathy for them. elizabeth: okay, cj pearson, thank you so much for joining us. it's good to see you. >> thank you for having me. elizabeth: this constitutional fight, it's ramping up, could former president trump take this to an appeals court, a federal judge grants a partial gag order today on the former president

barring him from slamming special council jack smith and court staffers in the 2020 election case. we have senator kevin cramer and senate armed services and state department faces increased pressure to turn over documents related to investigation into former iran envoy robert malley for appeasing, aiding and abetting iran for policy. check in with sean duffy with what's coming up next hour on the bottom line. >> hey, e mac, how he took trims with members of congress to israel and we have making money host charles payne breaking down the economy for us and former blm member talking about the odd connection between the left and hamas as well as liz peek as she talks about john kirby telling us that joe biden has held iran accountable. it's a great show. jackie deangeles is in today in

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terrorists are blocking and killing civilians from evacuated. blocking americans from leaving, wanting to use gaza strip civilians as human shields, blocking the border crossing to escape to egypt and e i didn't want not taking them in, jordan not taking in the palestinians and iran is not doing that and neither is saudi arabia. watch gop contender nikki haley here, watch. >> you're going to hear all of those arab countries vilify israel for what's about to happen. you're going to hear them all say how dare you not do more for the palestinian people, but where are the arab countries? where are they? where is qatar, lebanon, jordan, egypt? why aren't they taking the palestinians? because they can't vet them and don't want hamas in their neighborhood. the arab countries aren't doing anything to help the palestinians because they don't trust who is right, good, and evil. they don't want it in their country. so they're going to come and blame america, they're going to come and blame israel, and don't

fall for it. elizabeth: your reaction, sir? >> i'd be hard pressed to improve about anything nikki haley says on this topic or many gop political topics and some issues that require nuance and complicated and some are not and this is not. i agree with her 100% this. is the challenge particularly for the united states of america who should be in the leadership role of negotiating these things. you need to hold people accountable and that's one of the problems we're having is that we have a weak president whose weakness invited some of this activity. granted he's saying some of the right things now, but he needs to get allies together and hold every nation accountable and start negotiating some sort of a humanitarian way out for some of the palestinian folks that should feel more comfortable going into egypt rather than coming into into israel for example. these are not complicated. elizabeth: moving onto this

topic, some in the white house criticizing iran. appeasing iran and the biggest state sponsor of terror in the world and compromise the top iran aid robert malley and what did biden's former top envoy to iran do to be suspended without pay, security clearance is yanked and fbi now probing him and aced of mishandling classified information. gnat torr, hamadas it get -- gsenator, how bad does it get to get kicked out like that? >> it's pretty amazing. the whole story, liz, the way it's unfolded to the point you made up front in that little monologue there, that fact that congress didn't know about this till such time as congress was calling on him to come in and testify and he wasn't available. that's how congress had to learn about it. this is a guy that goes back to the clinton administration. this is somebody who helped create the iran nuclear deal and

this is somebody who knows -- evidently caught or suspected of mishandling classified documents and three assistants, three aids with close ties to all this mess. this is really, really bad. what's striking me as what were the conditions of which he was hired by the obama administration and clinton administration. how does he get to this point without better scrutiny and right now it's congress has to step in. and be part of this scrutiny if you will, not just an inside deal. elizabeth: it's not the first time the obama campaign. obama campaign in 2008 kicked out malley and the biden white hired him. did they purposely funnel billions through iran for lack of sanctions and enforcement and sanctions relief? it's something like $80 billion iran has gotten over the last 2.5 years under the white house. >> these are all the questions that you have to wonder about, you have to ask, obviously and

your imagination can run pretty wild but you're right about the $80 billion. a lot of that, liz, came, maybe most or maybe all. it's an administration that hates american oil production so much that they've actually sought oil from our enemies. they've unleashed venezuela for crying out loud. they've relieved sanctions on iran, allowing them to sell around the world and then they sort of look the other way if you will when it comes to things like china buying a lot of this oil from iran sort of under the table shipping with the ghost armada ships that are flying other country's flags even though it's not that country's. we need to clamp down on all this and this requires major leadership from our president to amass the g7 nations and other allies and know your friends and who your adversaries are and get the collective economic might of g7 and other allies so we're not just going this alone and the

adversaries know there's serious consequences. elizabeth: got it. senator cramer, good to see you again. hope to have you on soon. can former president trump appeal this as unconstitutional. a federal judge officially place ago partial gag order on the former president in the 2020 election case. how will impact the 2024 campaign. we've got former congressional investigator sam d dewey breakig is down next on the evening edit. ♪

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elizabeth: well, look who's back with us, form ere congressional investigator sam dewey, great to see you again, sam. do you think former president trump could win this on appeal. we've got today, u.s. district judge tonya chutkin officially placing a partial gag order on him saying it can criticize special council jack smith, prosecutors and court staffers involved in the 2020 case. he can call jack smith things like a thug or deranged and the judge did not like that. what do you make of this? >> so i think first of all there'll be an appeal and second i think that the part of the gag order that is most concerning, and i should emphasize that we haven't seen the final written order, and the words are going to be very important, her specific wording and the final written order, but going off what was said today, i think the concerning part is the inability to criticize the special council because the special council is

exercising a lot of powers that the department of justice and there is arguably a political angle there. it relates to the attorney general, to the administration, it's on, i hit shakiest grounds there. elizabeth: so, legal experts say this may not survive on appeal. it's a first, fifth, and sixth amendment that, those rights belong to the defendant, not to the prosecutors. a gag order that stops the defendant from criticizing the government of public figure, it's less likely to survive in the appellant scrutiny and gag orders are heavily disfavored under first amendment law. >> right and the purpose of the gag order would be obstructing cerumen stensively to prevent the jury pool from becoming tainted or in some extreme instances prevent threats, harassment, of court personnel and this one i think clearly

goes beyond it when you get to special council and get to we'll see whether or not the judge can be criticized, both of those grounds are concerning under that and you're right. it's also, you know, a bit odd to say that there's a concern about tainting the jury pool in this case. we've heard it before and everybody know this is is a political case. there's a concern and improperly intimidating challenging jack smith or the judge for being biased publicly doesn't carry water to me. i think there's a good chance he'll win on appeal again with a caveat that we need to see the specific language in the final order. >> i mean, former virginia governor bob mcdonnell. he said jack smith overcharged him and really went after him in that case tossed out and finally october of last year, judge cutkins slammed trump during a sentencing for january 6

defendants saying "it's behind loyalty to one person who remains free to this day. but he can't talk outside of court. final word. >> no, that's the extremely concerning part to say the judge is biased or to say that jack smith is acting politically not just, not in relation of trial frankly and relation to other reasons trump is going to be speaking and that's fairly concerning and where the appellant court has issues. sam dewey, thank you so much. tune in tomorrow for congressman russel fry and tudor dixon podcast host, tudor dixon and charles payne joining us. thanks for watching "the evening edit". i'm liz mcdonald. time for the bottom line. jackie deangeles filling in for dagen and sean duffy comin