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secretary mayorkas touting a productive meeting with mexico, but sanctuary city mayors with are at a breaking point with the massive my grant influx and pleading for biden's help. plus, republicans in colorado fighting back against the state's supreme court and filing ap appeal to keep trump on the ballot. and former race car driver danica patrick attended a conservative event. oh, no! and was bashed on social media a for it. find out her or response to that outrage. i'm brian brenberg in for elizabeth macdonald can, "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ brian: warnings ringing out that president biden's re-election campaign could be in trouble. issues heading into 2024 fueling up. you know 'em, botched afghanistan a withdrawal, spiking inflation, crisis at the southern border, conflict in the marked for identificationing east, ukraine -- middle east, and, of course, his family corruption case wilding. and now voters in his own party from if pennsylvania reportedly leaving in droves.

joining me now is main street columnist for "the wall street journal" bill mcgurn and common sense magazine executive director chris bedford. welcome, fellas. bill with, let me start with you. so when with you look at that pennsylvania defection, let's call it, bidenomics is being named as one of the reasons that pennsylvania voters are not happy with the president. and it's blue collar democrats that seem to be most fed up. bill, the economies has kind of failed -- the economy has kind of failed as an issue in terms of its decisiveness up to this point in recent elections. how big of a role does it play in 2024? >> i think it's a big role. i think adding to this is the white house approach. joe biden chewed out his staff before that's -- thanksgiving, blaming him for his low poll showings. but i think the white house is always -- also over the last are few months been trying to explain, bidenomics is really great for you. you should be very happy with it.

and people aren't buying. because, again, they go to the grocery store. inflation may be down, but prices are still up from what they were two or three years ago. so i think he has a real problem with that. and it can't -- they seem to take every problem as a messaging problem, you know? he told the press just the other day report the real news. brian: right. >> it's never his fault, it's always people are too dumb to understand just how great he is. brian: i -- that is not a winning political strategy, i don't think, bill. but, chris, former president trump lost to biden in pennsylvania by almost are 80,000 votes in 2020. based on what we're seeing, it looks like it's going to be a heck of a a lot tighter this time around. what do you think's going to happen in. >> yeah. i think pennsylvania's going to be a state that's once again in play. when i was reporting just north of philadelphia and east of pittsburgh in pennsylvania in 2020 the, a lot of the blue collar places that had really gone out for donald trump before

and helped turn that state red in the private election were still feel -- previous election were still feeling that way. the frustrations are there. trump's problem ended up being in the cities it turned out like philadelphia and other spots where democratic voters before more motivated to come out and defeat trump. i wonder if that is going to be the case begun. the biden administration, like bill said, has been trying to fix problems with age, fix problems with the economy, fix problems with foreign policy simply with talking points. i don't know if that's going to have the same ring they did as when the nation was as a dialed as it was in 2020. brian: and not very good talking points at that. bill, i want to go back to 1979, okay? jimmy carter struggling to gain support for re-election. a then-senator named joe biden held off on endorsing carter. now it looked like president biden's in the same boat as carter. we know what happened in '79, bill. what do you think it could the mean now? >> well, obviously to mens

aren't -- the omens aren't good. it's very different, there's a lot of things that could happen on both sides, the republican side and democratic side is, to affect the respect are thive nominees. but -- respective nominees. but it can't be wished away. i think the age is a huge problem. people can see the mental decline of joe is biden from a year ago, there where from two or three years ago and go back to vice president. it e seems like a different man. you can't fix that by going out there and saying joe biden is, you know, has the stamina of a 30-year-old. no one believes that stuff because they see with their own eyes how he looks lost at meetings and so forth, and they wonder what that means when he walks in a room with a putin or a shi egypt ping -- xi jinping. brian: right. >> how they're sizing him up. breep brian yeah. when you've got to be at your sharpest, you can't afford to be wherever biden is right now. chris, fox news legal editor gregg jarrett says the vast

majority of democrats hope biden will quit the presidential race, but i just don't know that we're any if closer to figure out who would take his place. do you see anyone emerging at this point, chris? >> well, the person who democrats have been counting on has really been gavin newsom, and i think that's really wishful thinking by the democrats. gash newsom, while young and energetic which is in sharp contrast to president joe biden, is someone who governs california which means he's going to have to answer for the different policies california's instituted over the years. when you awe him debating ron desantis, a lot of those policies came to the forefront, things that have caused an exodus from his state. while he's been trying to tamp down on some of the more radical legislation, vetoing measures that liberal activists have wanted, i still don't think that makes him palatable. democrats are in trouble. they thought that joe biden could actually one a general election. they made the deal knowing he was slower than before and and

old or, and now they're sticking with him. brian: yeah. bill, chris, great thoughts. by the way, i think newsom's looking at 20228, not 2024. thanks for being here. >> okay, happy new year. brian: you too. well, 2023 was an eventful year for unions with contract fights as a ups, the big three automakers, hollywood studios and more. economists warn the wins for union union unions could put pressure on prices in 2024. kelly saw a beforely is live in chicago with the latest. >> reporter: hi, brian. those strikes cost the economy billions of dollars, but more than half a million workers picketing in the u.s. this year and hundreds of thousands more threatening to strike. the bureau of labor statistics say there were 30 work stop thages with at least 1,000 workers or more this past year. kaiser permanent today employees saw a 211% increase -- 21% increase. uated autoworkers won a 25% pay

increase over 4 years for 50,000 employees at, ford, general motors and stellantis. ford saying that will add $9000 to each new vehicle -- 900, and the automaker will try to offset that. sag-aftra and the writers' guild of america won a 12.5% increase over 3 years. those contracts didn't come without a cost. just the autoworkers and hollywood strikes impacted the economy by 10.4 and 6.55 billion dollars respectively. sag-aftra president fran drescher told fox business that corporations need to be reminded that workers matter too. >> their first instinct over and over again was with to doing something that was not in the best interests of anybody but themselves. and then they had to be reminded that they're not the only people in the room. >> reporter: in 2024 unions could be emboldened to strike, and the bar will be higher for

new contracts. we'll be watching companies like at&t which has three contracts that apply to 322,000 workers -- 322,000 workers. another 30,000 boeing employees will need a new contract come september, flight attendants are still in negotiations. plus, we're looking at other fields like those for postal workers, teachers and many more, brian. brian: sounds like 2024 could be buzz su on the -- busy on the picket lubes. thank you for that. let's welcome "forbes" if editor-in-chief steve goshes. good to have you here -- steve forbes. okay, so 2023, the strike struck back. what do you think 20 2024 ooh's going to shape up like, and how do you think it affects the economy? >> well, whenever you have a period of rising prices, it's always followed by labor strike in any period in american history. so we're still getting the tail end of that, of inflation, price increases that started under joe biden in 2020 and '21. so that's running things, and people know with an election

year incumbents want to make people happy, so i think you're going to see a lot of push from government workers and hear rumblings about bailout of pension funds. so you're going to get a lot of wild promises made behind the scenes, but they're going to want to get those people out. remember, jimmy carter in 197. 9 created the education the president to try to win the teachers union. lord knows what their going to asker if this time. bloip so the creative line, get your base out there, i hate to hear that. i also want to talk to you about all these minimum wage increases coming in 2024 the because that sounds to me -- again, you talk about price pressures, upward pressure, strikes are one of those, minimum wage increases, steve, might be another. >> there's really where you don't have productivity. that is just a huge increase in cost for businesses that have low margins. you see in california $20, 22 ap hour. those people can't afford it.

they're going to either two out of business, try to put in more robots and the like because they can't survive. california's doing everything it can to push especially small business out of the state, and i think you're going to see a big constitutional case emerging in california. the idea that the state can dictate to what a restaurants what your working hours are, what your end benefits are. it's a virtual takeover without with -- brian: that is a great point. you know, the washington examiner is reporting about some of these restaurant workers saying hundreds are losing their jobs. and you mentioned this a second ago, and this is going to become a bigger story, it's kiosks, it's automation. now throw a.i. into the mix, i think what supporters of higher minimum wage don't think about enough is the substitution of technology for the worker, steve. and i think that's going to accelerate in states that are doing this. >> when you have that kind of artificial cost increase, it's going to happen. but the unions really don't care because they figure if they jack up the lower end of the spectrum, that creates pressure to increase wages of their own

members. so they see it from a very mare marinaro viewpoint -- narrow view point. you don't want to push a company over the ledge because then you don't have a company to squeeze anymore, but with government? heck, open sesame. brian: they don't have any competition -- >> they negotiate with themselves. brian: right. which is exactly why it's not a negotiation to given with. i do want to get your take on this though. the student debt debate now for a couple of years, obviously, student borrowers didn't have to paw because of pandemic policy. starting just in the last month, they've had to. the problem is only 60% of them are actually making payments. op their debt. so i'm stepping back and and thinking, well, what does that mean in terms of the credit situation and consumers as we head into next year? what do you read on that only 60% making payments? >> i think your going to see the democrats especially saying, don't worry, if we get reelected, all of this will be

swept away one way or the orr. doesn't matter what the courts say. and the fine print is they won't even report you to a credit agency for a year. they've given you an effective year's amnesty to make those payments. so a lot of people figure, hey, in a year's time, let's see what happens. brian: the problem is we started with vote buying, now we ended the interview with vote buying. i hate to hear it, but, steve, you've got to see through this stuff. that seems to be what's going on here. >> and what's happening in universities is they squeeze the students, make them go into debt, spend money on administrators and the like, fancy new buildings nothing to do with teaching in the classroom. brian: nothing to do with teaching real stuff in the classroom. steve forbes, always good to -- you're real stuff. you're the real deal. we're here, and we thank you for coming, steve. >> thank you. brian: all right. still the ahead, congressman chip roy, joe concha, batya ungar-sargon and podcast host ben ferguson. last week a colorado court reporter dropped the bombshell

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this is incredibly complex, and it seems like a very bad way to try to save democracy. what do you make of all this? >> well, i think that it is absolutely vital that the supreme court weigh in on the colorado supreme court's decision to remove president trump from the ballot. and there's a lot of reasons for that, and the constitutional issues are insurmountable at this point in my opinion. certainly, it's very important that the supreme court will weigh n. i think that they absolutely will because there are not just colorado at issue, but other states is have also a encountered this potential issue as well. certainly, that's folk to be the ultimate ash aer the of this, is the supreme court -- arbiter of this, the supreme court. brian: explain this one to me. it was the colorado secretary of state that says she's going to put trump back on the ballot. it's maine's secretary of state who's expected to rule on whether or not trump will appear on that a tate's ballot. that state's ballot. all these secretaries of state getting involved is. you've had the state supreme courts involved. to me, this looks like a mess

and none of it, again going back to my point, none of that is democratic. it's all the rule of appoint officials or bureaucrats. why is all of this the happening, katie? >> wedgier i think that the fact that all of these states are making different decisions and you have the secretaries of tates that are responsible for this in if of itself shows why this clause of the 14th amendment is not applicable to the president. the presidential race is a national race. all of these different states making difference conclusions about whether this particular section of the constitution applies to the presidency makes absolutely no logical sense, and that's precisely why you're running into this very happen happen hard situation -- happen -- haphazard situation. and that's why this certainly cannot practically apply to the presidency even if you get past all the other factual analysis. i don't think there's any applicability which is certainly what the pro-trump side is a arking. and i think that's right -- arguing.

brian: so in the meantime, you've got all these other states who have suits to ban trump from the ballot. they're watching this, they're watching colorado, they're watching michigan, they're watching the supreme court potentially. where do you think they're going to come town? -- down? >> well, i think that most states have realized that either the section of the 14th amendment does not apply to the president and even if they do believe that trump engaged in the insurrection which is a whole other conversation and certainly nothing that's ever been established legally, i think the they realize that would be queue surgeoning the democratic process -- usurping, and obviously disenfranchising a significant amount of voters in those states. i think those cob collusions have been correct in that sense, but the risk that a state could individually determine that trump is not qualified to sit on the issue is a huge dish ballot is a huge issue here. this section of the constitution has never been anized since it was implemented right after the civil war. so the purpose of the courts is to analyze that, to clarify the

applicability, and that's exactly what needs to happen here. brian: i noticed that the secretary of state in colorado is saying the supreme court, the u.s. supreme court must rule on this for her to put trump back on the ballot. a long time now it's appeared that the left is looking for ways to say the u.s. supreme court is biased to trump, therefore, we must if pack it or change it. do you see this issue becoming yet another call to reform, to pack the u.s. supreme court? >> well, i'm sure that there are certain people that would like to see not a conservative majority on the court, and so depending on what happens at the election, that will play a significant role here. but but they have to get involved, it's very vital a for this particular purpose. brian: i agree with you, the complexity theory dick louse. i don't think any of it is helping to save democracy. hopefully, supreme court can clarify things. katie, you have clarified things for us. thank you for being with with u.

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brian: secretary of state blinken and homeland security secretary mayorkas came home if if mexico city touting a priskt meeting with obrador, but how productive was it? joining me now, congressman if chip roy. congressman, they're saying lots of product it, lots of forward movement do you think so? >> well, to quote one of the county attorneys in south texas, i was talking to just this morning, they're tired of words. they're tired of photo ops. they're tired of, you know, strongly-worded tweets even by republican ifs. and now you've got our supposed leadership of this country who are directly responsible for wide open borders endangering the american people saying heavy gone down to mexico and they've, quote, made progress. the only progress they knead to make is actually enforcing the laws of the united states, and the only progress need to make in congress is to actually do our damn job. i actually think we should be in washington. i know some of our republican colleagues intend to go to the border next week, god bless them. i don't know what we need to

learn besides what we're seeing from bill melugin's great reporting and what we know about literally 3-0d-million people who have been released into the united states, something like 20 something thousand in eagle pass just last week. come talk to another mom in my district who has lost another loved one to fentanyl. don't fund a government that that's at a war with your own people. let's hold it up and say that we're going to demand change. brian: yeah. we've got the facts. you don't need to find them. >> yeah. brian: it seems biden is losing favor among democrat city mayors. watch this. >> our city here in eagle pass, we've been getting slammed with 2-3,000 people a day, and it's just an unfair, unethical situation. >> it won't just be the city of chicago that won't be able to maintain this mission, it's the entire country that is now at stake. >> those who should have been helping us in government every step of the way just critiqued us. i am not seeing the light at the

end of the tunnel from the federal government. and i think they -- we can't treat this as a policy, we have to treat it as an urgency. brian: the problem with these guys is the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a fixed border, it's just more money to manage the situation, congressman. that's -- i don't buy all their protesting right now. >> yeah. these are cities who are going around saying, oh, look at us, we're the compassionate ones. meanwhile, texas was taking it on the chin. and then governor ab a boot bot -- abbott, governor desantis, sent folks up north, and they're all of a sudden waking up and going, oh, this is a problem. and then they come back to congress and say give us money so that we can do something about this problem. and yet the federal government is the problem. the federal government is supposed to secure the border of the united states. and i told you that i'm talking to texans who are saying i'm tired of words, i'm tired of no action. from republicans too, by the way. i'm an equal opportunity basher

of democrats and republicans here for not getting the job done. now i have texans who are saying, congressman roy, what purpose is there for us being part of the federal government? why should texas continue to think we should be a part of this system that is endangering our people, killing our children, undermining our economy? we've spent $12.5 billion in texas to do the job of the federal government. but congress is totally m.i.a.. and by the way, i'm looking directly at the texas delegation, everybody involved in congress. where are you? if you home at christmas carving up the turkey? all i know is the people who i represent are sick of it. and when we come back in washington, we better damn well have a plan to stop funding money to fund bure9 accurates who are undermining our security, and we should do something about it. brian: yeah. >> and i would just say no security, no funding. brian: well, one of your colleagues in that texas delegation, democrat henry cuellar, is warning biden that they're losing democrats because of this. watch. >> we're losing democrats.

they feel that the democrat party, that the president is not doing enough. we're going to lose a lot of democrats, and it's because we're not doing the right thing at the border. brian: what do you think? >> well, henry's a friend, he's exactly right. i just wish henry would poke his democratic colleagues a little harder to work with us to do our job. i wish republicans would stand up and put it all on the line and say, look, we're going to get this done. we can't wait ool year where we just had, what, 300,000 ap e mentions in december, 300,000 in november? how many gotaways? how many dead americans from fentanyl poisoning? how much empowerment of cartels and china? we can't wait another year to win seats. i'm all about browbeating democrats if their -- for their wide open borders. major mayorkas and biden should both be impeached. they're literally ignoring their giewt to enforce the borders, and thereby endangering americans and texans. so we should do something about it as republicans now, not just

make it a political issue. brian: and work from home's not boeing to cut it, that's a great point. congressman chip roy, good to see you. thanks for being with us. >> you too, brian. happy new year. brian: you too. 2023 saw a huge push across multiple industries for diversity initiatives, but many companies are now starting to cut back. lydia hu has more on this. okay, lydia, so which company are saying, you know what? maybe we went a little too far on this? >> reporter: hi there, brian. we are seeing some major companies making revisions and pulling back. this includes are blackrock, jp if morgan chase, american airlines, lowe's, yum brands -- that's pizza hut -- and con tour brands. that's lee jean ises. all of this is coming from a reuters survey that showed revisions to dei policies from these companies are being made after conservative nonprofits, american first legal and america's civil rights project, promised legal action if consideration of race or sex in employment by the companies does

not stop. now according to the report, blackrock removed -- [audio difficulty] was describing a scholarship as, quote, designed for specific underrepresented groups. jpmorgan once promoted programs described as a, quote, advancing hispanics and latinos and, quote, advancing black pathways. now those programs invite applications from students of all backgrounds. advocates for the elimination of dei such as a the conservative-leaning group consumers research say the policies don't serve company shareholderrers. shareholders. >> they distract them with political issues and internal complaints away from what they should be doing which is serving their consumers. so as these companies have looked for ways to cut costs in a more aggressive interest rate environment, the first thing on the chopping block with has bee- [inaudible] >> reporter: a commune cautions from the president writing this, work that addresses the systemic

equities limiting opportunity for historically marginalized groups is not discriminatory. still, job listings for dei professionals are are down 23% in november from the same time last year. that's according to indeed. and, brian, the debate around dei could heat up on the campaign trail next year. republican presidential candidates florida governor ron desantis and former president donald trump have both previously signed executive orders banning dei niche incentive -- initiatives. brian: if lydia, great report. thank you for that. all right, let's bring in for reaction cohost of "the verdict with ted cruz" podcast ben ferguson. ben, i want to get your thoughts on the cutbacks in these initiatives, but i want to especially point not just to the boardroom, but to the operating room, the medical sphere where you have surgeons sounding the alarm on this. and i totally get it because,

look, if i'm in the hospital, i don't want somebody who's tuned in to microaggressions. i want somebody who's tuned in to the problem i have that their training is supposed to address. what a do you think about this? is. >> yeah, look. if you're going under the knife, the last thing you're worried about is how much equity and inclusion training they had. you're wanting to know they can save your life and do well with the surgery that they're supposed to be performing. and what you're seeing now is that we've seen this woke ideology infiltrate the classroom on even the most serious levels. this is in medical schools specifically now. and if you talk to surgeons, several of my good friends or that are in surgery, neurosurgery, they said the quality of the intern which turns into a real doctor that they're seeing now has shockingly fallen over the last 5-10 years. part of that, they say, is because they're trying to hit quotas in medical school for all of this inclusion, but then also the time that now is being taken

away from surgery so that they can teach this type of woke ideology. and so what you get is you have now surgeons that are not prepared to do surgery on their own as a full doctor instead of when they're in residency. that's putting people's lives at risk. and this is one of the big problems when the rubber meets the road. the reality is when you have doctors going in to be doctors, teach them about being a doctor not a woke ideology and not trying to connect, fill box withs or say, okay, we have this many many people that are this color, this many people that are women, this many people that that identify as x, y and gz --z. brian: all i want is competence in that moment. >> bingo. brian: former nas scar and indycar driver danica patrick is refusing to apologize after she was blasted on line for attending a turning point usa conference and sharing her

experience on instagram. commentators said they, or quote, lost all respect for danica, and she sports the party that is, quote, trying to destroy our country. danica fired back saying in part that she's somewhere between the reare palin and ine dependent. republican and independent. the shes we should be able to speak freely. she said the reaction was interesting because all she said in her initial post was that she loves this country. ben, how dare she say that. [no audio] >> -- it happened early on in hollywood where you could get blacklisted, but it's now transferring over into sports, and that concerns me the most. whether it be turning point, i've had the privilege of speak at turning point several times in my career. many conservatives also a speak at cpac as well. and what they're doing now is they're trying to take people that are not in the political world, maybe sports or music, and blacklist them from what they're doing in their careers. that is, again, a terrible

problem in this country. brian: look, if you say you love the country and you're getting canceled, i don't know, it might be worth getting canceled. ben ferguson, good to see you, sir. >> good to see you. brian: we have the list of the seven host annoying people in the world. also a new poll shows 11 in 5 -- 1 is in 5 of gen-z have a positive view of bin laden. let's check in with jack key and sean to see what they've got next on "the bottom line." sean: jackie's with me today. [laughter] we have a great show coming up, is the government going to get funded? we have two weeks of funding. i don't know, but tom emmer, the whip of the white house, he's going to join us, congressman from m. as well as biden wants more american manufacturing but keeps piling regulations on. we have tudor dixon on that. jackie: we've also got rich row lowery talking about the state of the 2024 race. all of these candidates, nikki haley, vivek ramaswamy, asa hutchen hutchinson, they continue on the trail.

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congressman jared moskowitz sounding the alarm after a new poll found a large percentage of young americans, one in five, have a positive view of osama bin laden. finish joining me now is journalist batya ungar-sargon. great to have you in studio. this is a disgusting statistic to me, not because -- it's probably right, but how in the world did we get to this point? you know, not even a generation, maybe a general ration away from 9/11, and this is the view kids have. >> i have to say i was surprised that it was so low -- [laughter] brian: really? if okay, all right. >> yes, 20%, it's not great, but it's a lot better than i would have expected if you had asked me to guess, and that is because where are these young people getting their views? they are getting them on tiktok. and unfortunately, there is now a new anti-america network, and it is made up of the chinese communist party with its favorite weapon, tiktok, which is indoctrinating young people to hate america. you've got iran with its favored

weapons, hezbollah and hamas to attack us through our closest ally, israel, and then the you have the elite university system where -- with its woke mind virus all pushing the same idea, which is that the west and america and jews are bad. and anybody who fights them in the most disgusting, aggressive way is good, and that includes "the new york times" report that we had today of the mass rape and mutilation of israeli women that everybody should read. brian: and this is, you know, we talk about what's going on on campus and talking about whether president claudine gay should reseen, to me -- resign, the me the conversation should be so much more serious and thorough-going in temples of how we support -- in terms of how we support colleges because of issues like this. we can't afford to meds around on the margins when you've got one in five, maybe it's higher than that, young people who can't make a distinction between osama bin laden and someone when's actually a hero.

don't we have to be a little more serious about the college thing than just who's the president today? >> what i want to see is americans not having to go to college in order to achieve the american dream. brian: there you go. >> that is the legacy of clinton and obama. it's not enough to say, look, these places are a stain on america, we should stop fighting them, amen. we need to create a pathway to the american dream for people who choose not to go to college. invest in the working class for a change. brian: i couldn't agree more. we need a total rethink. it's not like who's leading these places, it's not where's some of the money coming, from rich donor ifs, it is all the way down to the bottom who are the professors in the classroom, where were they trained, what are they teaching. and if we can find a way around that, i think it works better than trying to reform some of these places. but you've got the students on these campuses protestingen on campus, now you've got them, you know, we've seen around new york and other cities, now they're e at the airports, lax and in new york city i think up to ken do -- kennedy. i don't know what they're tying

to do with these won't let you into the airport thing. are hay trying to win friends? support? >> right. you're seeing them protest christmas trees and events celebrating religion for christians. we're seeing them blocking working class people from getting to their families on the busiest travel holiday of the year. finish they are not trying to convince good hearted americans to support the palestinians. they only want the right to feel morally superior to you, so they want to upset americans because they don't want them to be the convinced because they want to be part of a tiny elite and lorded over everybody else. brian: there's never a convincing moral argument in any of these -- >> never. brian: it's never let me per seed you that're on the right side of ethics, it's just how can we make ourselves feel like we're the virtuous ones. >> 100%. brian: you spoke a lot of sense today. thanks for being here. all right, we have the merge's joe concha on randi

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brian: well we're all looking forward to starting fresh in 2024, but, a new op-ed is not letting everyone get off ead -- easy, opinion piece highlights 2023 most annoying people in the world, not one of them is joining me now this is joe concha he he wonderful, let's talk about who made the list, i notice number one on fox news list is randi weingarten. i'm not arguing with that how about you? >> as someone who has young children, absolutely. the undisputed champ. as far as this is the person who shut down schools who did so when the data and science said it was safe to put kids back in. and in places like new jersey, where i live kept children on ipads and. zoom les,

now, test scores here are at 30 year low. as far as the scores she is the reason why, randi weingarten take a bow you are the champ. brian: and o our favorite climate activist, greta in at number two, and number 3 spot, late night talk show host. >> yes, stephen colbert, and jimmy kimmel, they are not comics, they are activists and annoying, they are repetitive, it's trump, trump, trump, every night, i feel that i'm watching cbs or msnbc when you are confirmist and all the same, leno was different from letterman and different from carson. these guys you can't tell

the deference. brian: this next group, more lamentable than annoying. >> any time you ask f for context around genocide of jews. i don't know if it has context genocide, that is an unambiguous thing in the kate of claudine gay she -- plagiarized 14 times and she should how still has her job. my kids are not going to those schools. brian: i know you have your own list. for most annoying this year. pull that up, it is interesting. kamala up there at number one. joe, why? >> always happy, always cackling despite 78% of

voters saying country is in the wrong direct, she all foam and no beer vice president. annoying and unfortunately one heart beat away from presidency, sleep tight america. brian: number two is lebron james. why what is annoying to you about lebron? >> he just sat during the national anthem that is annoying and a perpetual whiner about this country but never say a peep about human right abuses in china, that is where his money comes from, lebron james will never be confused with real number 23, michael jordan, who never lost in the nba finals period, and don't do "space jam" when michael did it. brian: i do want to get to you have the view down there on the list. the entire cast, joe, you think they are annoying? >> joy, whoopi, sunny, anna

and whoever so-called conservative is, they all sing from the same sight of music this is a angry dishonest predictable program and not what barbara walters envisioned 25 years ago. sean: joe concha, not annoying, inciteful, always a delight. good to see you. >> happy new year brian. brian: you too. >> joining us tomorrow former acting i.c.e. director tom homan and i am brian brenberg in for elizabeth warren, thanks for watching the "evening edit" on fox business, i will slowly, surely turn it over to our friends jackie and sean who are just getting their mics on right now,ed with to go on "the bottom line," will they appear in two seconds. sean: you stretched that out really well,. brian: i am a limb