larry: you know, this open astrophe down south is so important. i mean, i hope the republican senators really hold tight. there should be numerical caps on paroles, but i think there should be numerical caps on illegals, okay? we can worry about detaining

them later and deporting them later, but putting caps at the border would be a start. it would be a holding pattern until commander in chief trump comes along. and, of course, liz macdonald's coming along. she's going to take this thing and run with it. liz? elizabeth: i'm running up the field right now with the baton. larry, great show. thank you so much is. let's get right at it. joining us now, america first legal vice president, the one and only gene hamilton. you know, gene, this story, former president trump just a short while ago, gene, he blasted the new york civil fraud case. they're in the middle of closing arguments now. you know, gene, this threatens to wipe out his entire business empire right when new york city is broke. let's take a listen. watch. >> they don't have any facts, they don't have any if evidence against us. finish millions and millions of pages, years of litigation and all politically motivated. she campaigned on a i will get trump if you've ever seen any of her clips. they're horrible clips,

actually. the anger, she's got serious trump derangement syndrome. it's a shame. it's really, it's a witch hunt in the truest sense of the world. it's election interference -- word. and it just came out, just right now leety shah james -- letitia james. visited joe biden numerous times. elizabeth: what do you make of that, that lee tier shah james visited the biden white house? if we see this also with the case of d.a. fani willis in georgia in the trump 2020 case. what do you think? >> yeah. trump is definitely right. he's on to something which is that he is the subject of an unprecedented witch hunt. we have examples, hard or data -- hard data, that shows, for example, that fani willis or he tisch shah james or any number of folks were communicating with the white house during this time, during the investigation and, of course, before the charges were

actually brought. donald trump is being subjected to political persecution unlike anything we have ever seen in the united states. she is out to get his businesses, she's out to get him, she's out to take him out as a target right now and forever. and, of course, if you think that she is going to stop with donald trump, you are surely mistaken. elizabeth: you know, gene, so where does this case go? does it go to the supreme court? because the trump team is saying due prostitutional violations, you know, the judge entered the summary judgment against trump before the trial began with no jury, no witnesses in his summary if judgment, no evidence of cross-examination before he ruled, yeah, there was -- can you know, that trump committed fraud. plus a gag order. >> yeah. i mean, look, there has to be due process. this case has been a shining

example of everything wrong with due process and exactly why we need due process in this country. so i am confident that there will be appeals, and and i am confident that president trump will be successful at least at some level in his appeals of this egregious case. elizabeth: you know, gene, reportedly the judge made statements that trump is a bad buy -- guy, that the new york state a.g. should go after him. they didn't need to prove intent to defraud or show victims. i mean, trump is saying disclaimers in his financials meant banks had to do their own due diligence. he says banks were paid in full. bloomberg reported in november, gene, that a deutsche bank executive testified bank executives till got their loans, and it's not unusual for a bank to cut a client's stated asset value in half and approve the loan anyway as it did with trump. >> right. i mean, look, all the parties at issue to the contracts were satisfied. all the contracts were satisfied. there was no actual fraud that

occurred here. finish this is just an example of letitia james using the power of government to try to take out someone that a she views as an a opponent. that is sick and that is wrong. and that has no mace in this country. -- place in this country. we don't take our political disagreements with each other in a way that destroys each other's livelihoods. but that's the modern state of affairs, that's what we have in new york. that's what we see in georgia, that's what we see in d.c. they're all coming after him. elizabeth: yeah. and, by the way, he did give a closing statement in his closing argument, the former president did despite the judge saying not. he was allowed to speak. and he basically said, listen, i know you don't like me, that he rebuked the judge saying you have your own agenda. you hate trump, you don't want me to get elected. you got 10 seconds. >> look, donald trump is right again. every single american, whether you support donald trump or whether you're a person who doesn't, should recognize the danger that this poses to our

country. donald trump is being politically persecuted, and we will see him prevail at the end of the day. elizabeth: got it. gene, thank you so much. wall street pro carol roth joins us now along with "forbes" media chair and editor-in-chief steve forbes. okay, this story: inflation, steve, is rising higher than expected to 3.4%. i mean, that's reversing the cooling trend. what did you make of this? i mean, this is complicating the fed cutting rate es this year and also the 2024 race. >> it just goes to show the federal reserve shouldn't be trying to run the economy. and any idea they have that they can juice up the economy this year, i think, is going to be proven wrong. i think they will do and what a won't get many headlines, they're going to start trying to manipulate bank reserves, cut the costs of bank reserves to so banks start lending again, tell the regulators to try to juice the economy. elizabeth: carol, i want your reaction to former president trump last night. carol, he really stuck to policy. this was on the fox news town hall, carol.

we've got inflation now veering toward 18% compounded under biden, and watch trump also say he's picked his running mate, but he's not revealing it yet. watch. >> who would be in the running for vice president? >> well, i can't tell you that really. i mean, i know who it's going to be. >> what about any of the people who you've run against? would you be open to mending fences with -- >> oh, sure, i will. i will. i've already started to like christie better. we're going to have the greatest economy in the world which we don't right now. we have horrible, horrible inflation. we were going to be energy dominant, energy independent. we had your bills down low. we had your gasoline for the car town to $1.87 a gallon -- can down to $1.87 a gallon. now it's at $4 and $5, and that's not acceptable. your home heating bills are four and five times higher than they were with me. i'm not if going to have time for retribution. we're going to make this country so successful again, i'm not going to have time for relate rely abuse. [cheers and applause]

elizabeth: that was the line. what do you think, carol? [laughter] >> i think that that could not come soon enough, liz. look, this has been an absolute disaster of a presidency. every single day we're seeing a new executive branch rule that is doing something to put bare ifiers the making the middle and working class successful, obviously, bidenomics has been a horrible, permanent tax on the middle class and things, you know, are just trending in the wrong direction whether it's with the economy, whether it's with energy independence, whether it's at the border. so hearing something like that has to get people excited, and i'm not sure that we can wait ool year for that to happen. elizabeth: what do you think, steve? because, you know, there's also this news coming in, you know, the biden white house wants to lek electrify the entire economy. hertz rental car giant, hay just said they're going to back off renting out electric cars. they're going to sell off a third of its electric vehicle fleet. that's, like, getting rid of

20,000 electric cars. >> just goes to show the american people don't want what these politicians are trying to shove down their throat. it's all part of a cult that the world's coming to an end, therefore, we have to force people to do what they don't want to do. take away a gas stove, junking things like pizza ovens in new york. and and the economy itself, you've got business investment being flat or down in real terms, you've got the situation where the economy's only improving because of government spending. you looked at that latest jobs report, where did the disproportionate number of jobs come. >> government, health care dependent on government. this is not a strong economy. elizabeth: yeah. so what steve just said. not a strong exhibitioner carol, and also this. -- economy, carol. we want your reaction again. we're going to listen to president trump touting his foreign policy. he's talking about reagan's peace through strength. watch what he said about that. >> victor orbon, the prime minister of hungary, and i asked

him, what would you to? he said, what i'd do is make sure the american people vote for donald trump for president because when he was president, china feared the him. china feared him, russia feared him, everybody -- i even got along with kim jong un. getting along with people with hundreds of millions of nuclear weapons is not a bad thing. it's a very good thing. but peace through strength. it would have never happened in ukraine with, russia could have never gone in. would have never happened, the recent attack on israel. would have never happened. it's not sustainable for our country. we have millions and millions of people here. it is not sustainable. we are going to have the largest deportation effort in the history of our country. we're bringing everybody back where they came from. [applause] we have no choice. we have no choiceful. elizabeth: carol. so he wrapped that up with his comments about the border collapse. you know, voters are saying shut the border. you've got to stop this. what do you think about everything he just said there,

carol? >> i think the most wild thing to me about the trump presidency is we all expected he would excel most when it came to the economy and business because that was his background, but i do think foreign policy really was his biggest strength, and it was just as he said, because we projected strength. and he's such a wildcard. he's such an unpredictable person. i think that nobody knew what to make of him and that he, you know, he projected that strength that he'd be willing to do whatever it took. he was obviously very focused on the border during his term. so, again, these are the kinds of things that we should be doing right now and and, unfortunately, president biden is really abdicating his duty as the commander in chief in terms of protecting this country. that's the number one thing the government is set. to do, and we're not having that right now. elizabeth: what do you think what carol just said? what do you think of the former president's remarks, stevesome. >> i think it asks a very simple question. the ukrainian -- iranians seized a u.s. commercial ship today.

the would they do that under donald trump? elizabeth: no. they didn't do it at all. >> that answers your question. we're not a nation ast -- that's respected. where's the secretary of defense? oh, maybe he's under the table here. [laughter] people around the world are just fete up -- fed up and fearful the u.s. is withdrawing. they want a strong the u.s., and that's what this election's going to be about. strong at home economically and strong militarily. elizabeth: got it. thank you so much, good to see you. a hot show tonight, congressman bruce westerman joins us, lieutenant colonel bob ma guinness and we have even more shoes dropping, more revelations in the growing controversy over fulton county d.a. fani willis, more about alleged corruption behind the scenes. and new congressional scrutiny of the t.a.. -- d.a.. you have millions of dollars spent on illegal immigrants ahead of veterans. plus, a military expert

testified about the danger of the administration pushing far-left political ideologies into the military, divide requesting and roiling our troops -- dividing and roiling our troops. and the big new danger for the biden campaign of hunter biden pleading not guilty to all criminal tax evasion charges. there's a backlash here for the president. plus, we've got guy benson. president biden is so concerned he's losing democrat voters and donors, he's reportedly holding secret white house meetings with them. we're going to explain what they're really worried with about. all of this is coming up on "the evening edit." ♪ finish. >> he can't put two sentences together, and he's representing us on nuclear weapons with putin and xi and all of these very smart people. a guy like biden, there's nothing he can run on. everything he's turned out, it's turned out badly. i wasn't involved in wars. we beat the hell out of isis. biden drilled up the cost of energy. that's what caused inflation.

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elizabeth: okay, let's bring in, we love this guy, he's townhall.com political editor, guy benson. guy, it's so good to see you. >> hey. elizabeth it's good to see you again. hunter biden pleads not guilty to all criminal tax evasion

charges. when you saw this, what was your reaction? because here's the backlash, this is going to go to trial. that means prosecutors get to ask him how did you make more than $24 million selling the biden family brand overseas in nations that are u.s. adversaries? you know what i mean? >> if the prosecutors from the biden justice department want to go down that path, which i'm not sure they want to. they've sort of been dragged kicking and screaming into filing these charges at all. they tried to wrap it all up in the sweetheart deal -- elizabeth: yeah, but hang on. let me back up, because i covered the irs and taxes for years. when you have a tax case going before prosecutors, when they are trying to establish tax evasion charges, federal charges, they have to stipulate how the money was made and the dollar amount that was evaded. so when they do that in the interogg stories and in court, they could get him on the stand and say you made this much money, you evaded this amount of tax, why?

and, by the way, this keeps this issue alive for the biden campaign through the election. finish. >> oh, yeah, no, it's a big, big headache for the biden campaign and the biden white house, no doubt. my only point, elizabeth, was i think this justice department really tried to avoid coming into a scenario where these questions would get asked at all. remember, they didn't file the tax charges at first whatsoever even though the irs whistleblowers said, hey, this is an open and shut case of tax evasion. here's all the evidence. it's an outrage that they didn't charge. and when that blew up and when the federal judge looked at the sweetheart deal and said, wait, there's something wrong here, then i think their hand was forced to file these sub sent -- can subsequent charges. my understanding is it's a very strong case, there'll be some is very uncomfortable questions. i still suspect their going -- they're going to try to insulate joe to the best of their ability. elizabeth: well, maybe not, because the special prosecutor -- i'm going to push back -- and the prosecutors we've talked to, they're saying he faces up to 17 years in

prison. it seems like there's a hinge point, a turning point with david weiss. he's also, we're hearing a possible foreign lobbying violations. we don't know if this will happen. again, this is what we're hearing. this could change. we're not sure just yet, guy, but we've bot to move on to this. -- got to move on to this. "the washington post" is reporting president biden is holding, what do you make of this? he's holding private meetings at the white house, he's battling back and trying to calm democrat donors in. they're worried he's too old, he doesn't have the stamina, he doesn't have the energy to run again. what do you think of this? >> well -- [laughter] i wonder if those meetings are reassuring to these donors. first of all, is this selling access to the white house, question mark? i know maybe that would be the narrative if the shoe were on the other foot partisan wise, but i think these folks investing in the biden campaign and the democratic party writ large, they are seeing what the res of us are seeing. they're seeing rough polling in a lot of these states, a

president who seems listless and not at the top of this his game a lot of the time. they're nervous. they feel like this is an election that is absolutely lose bl for their side, and if joe biden can convince them, no, i'm still a good bet, i'm sure that's the goal, he's got maybe an uphill climb with some of them. but he's not always his best merge, liz. i mean, that's the thing -- elizabeth: stay on that, because what about the debates? listen, we don't want to see anybody infirm and being put in such such, you know, a tough job like this. but when we' the president literally told where to go, where to stand, you know, he's complaining also frequently behind the scenes about his record low polls dropping into the 30s, there seems to be serious confusion on his part, and the border is in a state of collapse, guy. how is he going to handle all of this in the debates? if. >> that's why i, i think i'm being more cynical than you are during this interview, liz. i would not be surprised if we didn't see a general election

debate between joe biden if and if donald trump if those are the nominees. maybe one, maybe zero. i think heir going to try to avoid that almost at all costs for the fears that i think you're speaking to. elizabeth: got it. guy benson, you're so smart. we love having you on. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: and we've got this story coming up, congressional lawmakers scrutinizing the virginia. the -- the v.a. the v.a. spending millions of dollars on illegal immigrants as the backlog of veterans' health claims has exploded, now veering toward half a million untaken care of, not taken care of. veteran health claims. also this new danger for the biden white house, we're going to dig in even further into hunter biden pleading not guilty to criminal tax evasion charges. again, this keeps the issue alive through the election. also the house is moving to hold hunter biden in contempt of congress. the news on all of this coming up on "the evening edit." ♪ >> hunter biden showed up today

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elizabeth: okay, hunter biden pleading not guilty in federal court in l.a. to criminal tax evasion charges. this came down the day after he crashed his own contempt of congress hearing on capitol hill. this more and more feels like rules for thee but not for me. kelly o'grady live outside the courthouse in l.a. with more. kelly, good to see you. >> reporter: great to see you as well, liz. the hearing lasted about 30 minutes. ing as you mentioned, he pled not guilty to those 9 charges. that was as a expected. it was a much more traditional affair today versus yesterday, very much in contrast to that chaos on the hill.

his approval wasn't theatrical, he was taken in the back in those suvs that you see there. during the hearing he exchanged a few whispers with his attorney. he looked very serious. he is going to be released on bail, we found that out, the same provision as his delaware case are going to apply here, so that's everything from no alcohol, that he must be drug tested to the fact that he also must be employed. now, going forward what can we expect? there's a motion hearing set for march 27th. that's something to watch, liz, because remember this all started because of a plea deal last summer that fell apart, if and biden's attorney indicated he will be filing a motion concerning how unusual a case this is because of that as well as the delaware one. so it look like we are going to go to a trial. he's facing those nine charges of tax evasion, three are felonies. according to that indictment, he failed to pay $1.4 million in federal taxes, and he faces up to 17 years behind bars if convicted. you did mention the chaos on the hill yesterday. two committees yesterday voting

to hold him in contempt, and that does set up a full house floor vote against him as early as a next wednesday, we are hearing. liz, i'm going to close with this: the l.a. trial here, it is set to begin june 20th. and my colleague, david spunt, he pointed out something very interesting, that's who months before his dad is set to take the stage at the dnc, so if hunter is convicted, he could be a convicted -- convicted tax felon by the time his dad is on stage accepting that nomination, and i dug into his record, the judge here is very hard on these types of cases. back to you. elizabeth: wow. kelly to o'grady, thank you so much. let's bring in julian epstein. julian, we love having you on. we've watch with the you, you're a straight shoot or. you know, the trial date, it's in june. that's right in the middle of the campaign. what do you think of this? >> well, personally, liz, i don't like the idea of these political prosecutions during campaign season. there's something that i just think rings wrong about that.

elizabeth: how is it -- sorry. how is it a political prosecution? he's charged with nine charges, three of them felonies for evading his taxes. he evaded something like $1.4 million -- >> sure. i'm not arguing it's politically motivated. by no means do i mean that. but i use the same logic for the trump prosecution as well. i think the trump prosecutions on january 6th attack on the capitol, i think the mar-a-lago, i think these are getting so close to campaign season that i think the idea of these prosecutions with such incredible political implications would be better off to be done outside campaign season. i've made the argument many times that i think it's completely inappropriate that the justice department took until year four of the biden administration to prosecute trump on these charges and the same for the state prsmghts so i'd like to try to keep law enforcement away from politics as much as possible. elizabeth: yeah. >> that said, a lot of this was

created by the biden justice department which i think mishandled the hunter biden matter and is now sort of paying a serious price. i think also the fact that it is the biden justice department that is prosecuting this case sort of takes away an argument from the democrats on capitol hill who are saying this investigation is illegitimate. if the biden-trump -- if the biden justice department is prosecuting hunter on subject matter that is, you know, integral -- namely, the tax charges -- it seems hard for me, hard for the democrats to be making the argument that the comer investigation is completely illegitimate. elizabeth: yeah, we hear you loud and clear. now, this story, we know you don't like it to be politicized. again, your point's well taken that the justice department dragged its feet for years and

now here it is. again, if he pleads not guilty as expected for evading $1.4 million in federal million tax, this goes to trial right in the middle of the campaign. we understand your point about politics. he's going to face a barrage of questions. how did his family make at least $24 million selling the biden family brand overseas in places like china, you know? if that's what devon archer, business partner of hunter, testified to. again, this is bigger than hunter. it's about the president. it's about a bribery allegations involving the president. it's about tens of millions of dollars pouring into the biden family via off-balance sheet shell companies. it's about dozens of phone calls the vice president held and after the vice presidency with hunter biden. it's about meetings, dozens of meetings with the vice president at the white house or, you know, the vice presidential property or restaurants in d.c. this is a bigger story. it involves the president. >> i agree this is a legitimate inquiry, and i've said that

this. i don't know that all the facts are on the table. i don't think one can say necessary arely that joe biden has committed an impeachable offense, but it is also true at the same time as you point out, liz, that-a massive influence peddling scheme that occurred while joe biden was vice president. joe biden enabled the influence peddling scheme. he misled the public about it when he said that hunter was not receiving money from china, and there are many questions about what these clients got in return. so i think the investigation is completely legitimate. i think the president should advise his son to comply with the subpoena, and i think the biden family would be well advised to get as much of this information out into the public domain and to cooperate rather than trying to strongarm. elizabeth: julian epstein, so smart. we love your perspective. thank you so much. it's good to see you. this story, veterans affairs facing growing questions over millions of dollars spent on

illegal immigrants. the backlog of military veterans' claims has groan. kelly saberi live from chicago with the story. kelly, good to see you. >> reporter: good to see you, liz. according to the v.a.'s very own web site, over 400,000 claims have piled up, and the v.a. is adamant that the department does not pay for care for immigrants in custody. let's break down what's happening here. the v.a. has the claims processing center in austin, texas, and it says it's contracted ten of its workers the deal with immigration and customs enforcement-provided health care. in the 20222 fiscal year, the center processed over 161,000 i.c.e.-related claims, and according to the department of homeland security, i.c.e. health services paid out about $94 million in taxpayer money. the v.a. saying, quote, it does not provide or fund any health care to i.c.e. detain knees. -- can can detainee ifs. there is a 2002 payment

processing agreement in which i.c.e. pays for the fse, the v.a.'s financial services center, to process payments for i.c.e.-funded health care. this involves no more than ten employees, is fully paid for by i.c.e. and has been in place for every administration since 2002. it has no impact on veteran care or services whatsoever. the issue for those the blasting the department is that the v.a. is providing its manpower to help i.c.e. representative derek van orden is a former navy seal and an outspoken critic of the v.a.. he's also a member of the house committee on veterans fairs. >> every hour those ten people spend that are working for the v.a., every hour they spend processing paperwork for someone that the entered the country illegally is an hour they cannot spend processing paperwork for someone that served the nation. >> reporter: the representative tells me these claims piling up

are not just a small headache for these veterans. the outstanding bills can contribute to drug and alcohol use and often times suicide. elizabeth: kelly saberi, thank you so much is. let's bring in the chairman of house natural resources, congressman bruce westerman. congressman, it's good to have you back on. >> liz, good to be with you. elizabeth: it's good to see you again. so you heard that report, and you're also raising the alarm about illegal immigrants being housed on federal property. what do you say? >> yeah, we were raising this flag back in september when the biden administration if announced they were going to waive all the environmentallal rules, two through a rushed process and house migrants at a floyd bennett field there in brookly? a. no they greased the skids, and it was in record time for the federal government especially to allow new york to build these migrant shelters which are turning out to be the disaster that we warned them that it would be, but they the wouldn't listen. they were only focused on

building these encampments on national park service land and, again, waiving every environmental law that's out there so they could do it at breakneck speed. and now we're seeing the evacuation of that shelterer because of the high winds. they put the migrants in a high school, displaced school students. and we've got another storm coming this weekend. and they knew that this was an area that flooded, that there were problems with it being on national park, but they were hell bent to go forward with it. elizabeth: you know, it's like the white house collapsed the border, the president took dozens of actions to weaken border security, and then it's -- the message is, you know, to all cities and states, you're on your own, you know? if we're not going to help you. you have to deal with the humanitarian crisis we caused. and now this breaking news is coming in, reports are coming in that the state of texas is seizing government property around eagle pass at the border in order to start enacting deportation, state deportations

and arrests of criminal illegal aliens and illegal aliens who cross the border. so this is what's happening now in texas. there's a report coming in that under emergency powers the state of texas is now seizing city property and government property in order to enact, you know, enforce the new tate the law in texas. state law in texas. this is kind of what's happening down there at the border. what do you say to this breaking story? >> liz, this just highlights the disaster, the ultimate disaster that this administration created. it was an unforced error. we were on a good track to mitigate the massive amounts of migrants coming in, and this administration came in and undid everything and invited all these migrants to come in. and it's, it's -- the rest are of the country's experiencing what texas experiences every day. it's in new york city, it's in chicago, it's in every community across our country because of the failed policies on the border. elizabeth: got it.

if chairman bruce westerman, thank you so much for joining us, congressman. it's good to see you. we've got new reports, this coming in, the january 6th committee, "politico" is reporting that committee helped fulton county d.a. fani willis in her 2020 case against former president trump. it's raising questions if this committee gave d.a. willis info that it did not give january 6th defendants. plus, georgia congressman marjorie taylor greene is demanding the governor of georgia and the state attorney general launch a criminal investigation into fani willis because of the conflict of interest involving her hiring her boyfriend as a special prosecutor on the case. all a coming up on "the evening edit." let's hear from dagen and sean. what have you got coming up on your great show, "the bottom line"? sean: thank you, e-mac. the american crime crisis has had an impact on small businesses. we have congressman roger

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elizabeth: let's welcome to the show former doj attorney hans von spakovsky. hans, it's good to see you again. okay, this story: we have more shoes dropping in the controversy swirling around fulton county d.a. manny willis. you know -- fani willis. politico is reporting, hans, that the january 6th committee quietly and secretly held d.a. a fani willis gave her preferential, favorable treatmenting giving her information for her to 2020 case e against trump, but it blocked, that committee blocked the justice department getting that same information because democrats feared federal prosecutors might have disclosed this evidence to january 6th

defendants. what's going on here? this doesn't sound like anything credible. >> well, this is a real problem because what it means is that the specific defendants in hero coe prosecution -- her rico prosecution in atlanta having their due process rights violated by this prosecutor not turning over to them potentially excull pa if story information. -- exculpatory information. prosecutors have to turn that over, and the fact that she has kept that secret, informs, has refused to provide any of the communications or documents she may have received -- as you know, the house committees have demanded this who are investigating this -- that's just more unethical conduct by fani willis which is what we've come to expect from her. elizabeth: you know, hans, this -- to what you're saying, this is coming on top of reports that fani willis hires her boyfriend, nicholas wade, and then nicholas wailed as a

special prosecutor -- wade as a special prosecutor, again, a special prosecutor on the 2020 case, he goes to the biden white house, sits down with the biden white house including the white house counsel -- by the way, he charged taxpayers for two 8-hour-long meetings before the trump indictment. by the way, he even charged, i think he billed for 24 hours on a single day. really in he worked for 24 the hours? so back up. so when you see that going on, that the biden white house is involved too, what's your take on it? >> well, my take is this raises serious concerns about the biden white house being involved in trying to engineer if a prosecution against their potential opposition in the 2024 presidential race are. that -- look, that's the kind of hinge that goes on in third world countries. it's not supposed to happen here. and all of this is on top of fani willis perhaps having not just violated state ethics rules, but state raws -- laws

and even potentially federal law by hiring a man that she was -- a married man, she was apparently having an affair with and paying him upwards of a million dollars in taxpayer funds. and then going on trips with him that he was paying for, apparently, with the money he was receiving. finish there are so many potential violations of the law there that the this could sink the entire prosecution that she's conducting. elizabeth: let's go through the it. congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is demanding that the governor of georgia and the state tomorrow general there do a criminal probe. this is what she's saying. potential violations of public oath, improper influence of a government official, criminal conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the government, false statements, concealment, also fulton county's gift ban, also georgia public corruption crimes. how in the world could any prosecutor think it's okay to, you know, allegedly hire their

boyfriend as -- to be on the team and then they go on luxury travel, on cruises like royal caribbean, they go to napa, they go to the caribbean with taxpayer paid-for compensation to that guy? it just smacks of something that smells really bad, hans. final word. >> well, it just shows a complete and utter contempt actually for the law and is not the kind of thing we would expect in a prosecutor. elizabeth: hans von spakovsky, it's good to see you. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: okay, this story, house oversight, the subcommittee there, held a hearing on the dangers of far-left political ideologies flooding into the u.s. military. now, republicans are warning the pentagon is prioritizing dei and other far-left political ideologies instead of getting our soldiers ready for combat. we've got retoured lieutenant --

retired lieutenant colonel bob ma guinness who will be breaking this all town on "the evening edit" next. ♪ ♪ ♪(song in french)♪ (♪) (♪) (♪) (♪) book in the hotels.com app to find your perfect somewhere.

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maginnes. it is good to see you. this story coming in. what was your reaction when you heard national security subcommittee held a hearing where military veterans warn far left political ideologies are hurting military preparedness. >> i consider dei as i'm moral and illegal, our young people, must be prepared to give up their life or to kill the enemy and break things. you know, i stay in touch with young service members all over the army today. i talk to them, i find out ithey are spending in some cases doing more time on the dei nonsense instell of training to kill the enemy, we're in desperate times. the world is unstable, we don't need more distractions. base your military combat

effectiveness on merit, not a social experiment that some leftistments to push on our military. elizabeth: fights for -- for freedom and democracy, one witness testified he testified that west point cadets are criticizing west point as an enstution for racism. -- an institution for racism. resounded off on this. >> i criticize the military i did diversity, equity and inclusion trainings at my own base were illegally occurring despite an executive order from the commander and chief, the diversity, equity and inclusion is steep in critical race theory and routed in anti-american marxist ideology, i watch dei trainings divide our troops and sew seeds of animosity. elizabeth: the last point, dividing. division in the troops,

there is an mos animosity to america, that is not good. >> not at all, liz. i went to west point, i was there with lloyd austin. high knows. -- he knows that is nonsense, we're about killing things, and you know destroying the enemy, yet we're -- you know we're taking funds, and taking all sorts of our energy in the wrong direction. no wonder our military today cannot recruit enough good people, we told our sons and daughters, don't go in you are wasting your time on die dei nonsense is wrong. it needs to be corrected. elizabeth: a witness testified, that history is littered with quha examples of military propolitical ideology -- collapsed and hurting those nations national security.

>> the soviets, chinese are good examples of how things do fail. and if you put ideology in front of merit and combat effectiveness and building cohesive teams you will ruin our country and your military in the process. elizabeth: is this why you think that recruiting is down? >> yeah yes, it is down and because in part, because of the this nonsense this administration is pushing. elizabeth: got it, colonel bob mcginnis thank you for your service to america, we appreciate you. good to see you. i'm elizabeth macdonald, thank you for watching the "evening edit" on fox business, we appreciate you watching, we'll stick with you through 2024, get you breaking news and headlines you need to know btime for my buddies at "the bottom line," take it away with a shot show, dagen and sean. dagen: thank you, emac. elizabeth: sure ♪