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>> people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them. >> you can only push people so far and then they start to take matters into their own hands. >> that the's why i felt, along with so many other americans, joy, unfortunately, you know? >> joy? serious? elizabeth: okay. we've got breaking news coming in. politico reports house democrats are scrambling to stop the damage from far-left democrat socialists elizabeth warren, bernie sanders and aoc trying to justify and excuse the cold-blooded murder of the ceo of the united health care. why? because it weakens democrats as trump comes marching into power. tonight, the growing debate about the rhetoric of the par left using a brutal murder as a launch pad to get government to control your health care. the shooter and his mom were not even unitedhealth clients.

and we've got copycats here too. tom may heroin to respond in a moment -- tomi lahren here to respond in a moment. >> fighting for illegal immigrants who haven't put a dime in this country. this fall it is on you! you're the mayor of this town. elizabeth: chicago residents outraged over their taxes going up to pay for biden's open borders. and illegal aliens. crime and gang chaos is soaring. now they're cheering on tom homan saying chicago will be ground zero for deportations, and they'll prosecute anyone who tries to get in their way. tonight that chicago resident you just saw will join us with the update. plus this story -- >> that is ridiculous. i would invade mr. kirby to come on out, let's go out one night about a 9:30, 10:00. i'll go out behind my town hall, and you can count them with me

all night. elizabeth: that new jersey mayor joining a growing chorus now calling out the biden white house to do something about the swarm of mysterious drones now found in multiple states including outside d.c. tonight that new jersey mayor is here to join us to speak out. but first, this story: this news coming in, president-elect trump's approval rating in the real clear politics average just hit a new high of about 50%. it has been trending up. he's coming in as an historically popular president. aishah hasnie if is now live in d.c. with the latest action happening now with the trump transition and his nominees. aishah, good to see you again. >> reporter: good evening to you. it's been a really great week for the president-elect and his nominees, and next week rfk jr. hits the hill. he's going to face tough questions about his policy stances. today senator elizabeth warren went after him on x after his lawyer reportedly asked the fda to to revoke approval of polio

vaccine, but he may also find some unexpected friends on the hill like independent senator bernie sanders who thinks rfk jr. is, quote, exactly correct in criticizing the food industry. so, again, we'll be following his meetings on the hill next week. all of this happens as the nominees head into next week without any public nos on their scoreboards. meanwhile, a source telling fox news trump is taking his defense secretary nominee, pete hegseth, so the -- to the army-navy if game tomorrow. things could get awkward since trump is also inviting florida governor ron desantis'. and recently-acquitted daniel penny will be vp-elect j.d. vance's guest at that same game. the trump transition is shifting to preparations for the inauguration while china's president xi will not be taking trump up on his invitation to atent tend this year. trump is getting a lot of

attention from system powerful ceos including amazon founder jeff bezos. he will join meta's mark zuckerberg in donating a million dollars to the inauguration fund. bezos will be visiting trump at mar-a-lago next week, zucker zuckerberg has already done that. house speaker mike johnson also be at the game to go over legislative priorities in detail as the transition goes full speed ahead. elizabeth: a lot to talk about at that football game. aishah a, thank you so much. it's good to see you. okay, let's welcome former economic adviser to president trump, look whos' here, the one and only steve moore. steve, we love having you on. if you could sit tight, we want to the read this tweet from historian neil ferguson, and i quote: german and french governments fall, bashar al assad flees syria. he says there's an economic chain reaction happening. bitcoin rallies, the russian currency weakens, china flies

deeper into deflation and iran's reeling. what do you think of neil ferguson on the trump agenda? >> well, look, i think there's no questions -- question that trumpism is starting to invade the whole world. i think you're going to see kind of populist revolts against big era government in europe, in the u.k., in france, in germany. it's so amazing, trump isn't just popular here in the united states, he's, he is popular all over the world world with citizens when want a return to people power, if you will. and so i think this is good for the economy. i don't agree with everything trump wants to do on the economy, but i agree with 80% of it. and this idea of putting people first, putting your own country first, i think it's a popular issue around the world. elizabeth: what's the 20% that you're upset about? [laughter] trump's agenda, look at this, i mean, we've got 27 states, 27 republican governors now moving to to push trump's agenda in

their states on the border, crime, reforming schools, away from left-wing ideologies, giving more power the parents' rights. what's the issue? if they need to get tax cuts front9 and center. >> well, of course. and, you know, larry kudlow and i and others helped design that tax cut back in 2017. it was a huge success. and one of the problems we're running into, liz, that i wanted to mention to you is that we've got this score from the congressional budget office that says it's going to cost $4.5 federal to extend the tax cuts, is craziness because we know from the first six years of the tax cut it didn't revenue because of the positive effect it had on the economy. more businesses, more people working, higher wages. the government got more revenue. so how can this cost -- elizabeth: you know, for years, the cbo analysis for years has been discounted for generations. but, steve, the real problem is spending fights.

are you worried congressional house spending flights are going to bog down the trump agenda? final word. >> look, republicans often times don't want the cut spending any more than democrats. we've got to put a cap on spending. we've got to have the doge committee come in with hundreds of billions of dollars of spending reductions and inefficiency. but most importantly, liz, you know this, you're a supply-sider like i am, we've got to grow the economy, get the growth up to 3.5%, expect deficit will come down. elizabeth: okay. steve moore, you're terrific. thank you so much. good to see you. [laughter] >> thank you, liz. ♪ >> the motives for murder are never that interesting because murderers are just murderers. and the message some in congress have defended the message you can only push people so far. that is the thing that every estranged husband says before murdering his wife and children. the alimony pushed me so far, and killed. killers kill because they're killers. >> this is not to say that an

act of violence is justified, but i think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them. elizabeth: pretty heated rhetoric, right? first you heard from david promm. after they excused and justified the cold-blooded murder of the ceo of united health care calling it a warning. a aoc recklessly tried to compare insurance claims to to, quote, violence. joining us now, outkick host tomi lahren. politico's reporting house democrats are scrambling, they're worried these democrat socialists are going to wreck it for them because they're trying to use murder to justify a debate about government-run health care. so they're trying to to broadly denounce this, but what are you

hearing about what they're saying? what do you think? the. >> well, i'll tell you this, it's one thing for a fringe element on rhine to be cheering for an -- online to be cheering for an assassination of a husband and a father, and i would have hoped it would have stayed in the dark corners of the internet by anonymous trolls who were celebrating death. unfortunately, that's not the case because you have elected officials that represent not only their constituents, but represent the united states of america justifying ideologically-based violence. the loving and tolerant left strikes again. this christmas is holiday season, there will be a wife that lost her husband and two young kids that lost their father. and you have these individuals using the word but to justify it? but doesn't belong in this conversation, in this narrative, in this situation. and the fact that the left is turning towards political or ideologically-based violence more and more just as they did to excuse the trump assassination attempts, boy,

democrats better get their party back in line because this is not the message they should be sending if they ever want to win an election ever again. elizabeth: it's morally depraved. i mean, when you hear what they're a saying, there's this insincere throat clearing first about violence, and then they want to get to their point. so these democrat socialists are saying -- you know what? the the issue that's even worse, the suspected killer and his mother were not clients or customers of united health care, but they were trying to use this as a launch pad to get government-run health care. >> right. well, if they have an issue with the health care industry, they should take it up with barack obama and everything that he did with health care.dud. they should be talking about that and having this conversation. listen, this is the united states of america. you can debate and discuss health care systems, you can even advocate for medicare for all if that's what you want to do. but the fact that they're using this as a launching pad, somebody's death as a launching pad for this discussion and taking joy in the fact that

we're having this conversation spurred by a murder just goes to show you that the left really can't cultivate a conversation otherwise. why can't you have these conversations without celebrating a murder? there should be no room for a but, especially for people like a senator, elizabeth warren, who represents the united states of america. to use the word but and provide any understanding for minute's murder, that's just way beyond the pale. i hope that she apologizes. i'm not going to hold my breath. i hope aoc does as well. they should not be putting this i stuff online, they're already inspiring copycats. this is not the united states we want where we take out our grievances of the system through violence and murder. elizabeth: they're violating their oath to protect and defend americans. tomi lahren, thank you so much. >> thanks, liz. >> y'all sit and talk about how trump is so unconstitutional and how he's going to overturn the government and he's going to do all this. but i've been coming here for

two years, this is the democratic party! this ain't trump! elizabeth: chicago residents begging for help as chicago crumbles under the weight of biden's open border crisis. tonight chicago residents cheering on trump and his border czar, tom homan, that the windy city will be ground zero for deportations, and they'll prosecute anyone who gets in their way. that voter you just saw is chicago resident zoe lee, and she's here to the react. also tonight, this story -- >> over the town of rocksbury, i have a credible resident over there who told me there's anywhere from 30 to 40 a night, and every night they're in the same place doing the same things. so i have to say, mr. kirby, that's a lot of nonsense. elizabeth: a new jersey mayor over comments about the the drone swarm, it's now over multiple states and even near if d.c. coming up, we've got that new jersey mayor, or he is here on how he says the white house needs to act. and u.s. democrat senators agree

with him. also tonight biden white house, they're touting biden's pardons as historic. it's the historic because biden pardoned and commuted the sentences for really bad people. we're talking a drug cartel leader, people who stole millions of dollars. one of america's worst embezzlers of a municipality, a medicare scam artist and much more. did biden mean for the message to really be that crime pays? but first, this story -- >> it certainly was not an inside if job by fbi agents. >> where do you think this idea comes from, that this was somehow done by the feds? >> the debater said it was an inside job, it was. it's an inside job on the part of donald trump: >> republicans have blamed the fbi and said it was an inside job. elizabeth: okay. you know, the media and democrats pushed back on anyone questioning what happened with the fbi and january 6th. no one's saying that, basically, it was an inside job by the fbi,

but the fbi did deploy, you know, dozens of informants. it didn't have its workers there, but it had informants including a number who went into the capitol but were not prosecuted. so what really handsome retired nypd inspector paul mauro is here to react to the latest revelations from the doj inspector general's report after this. we'll be right back. please don't go away. ♪ ♪ >> this wasn't ever -- [laughter] labeled as a dangerous conspiracy, the fact that informants were involved in this activity, the fact that informants might have been reporting on summits of investigation -- on subjects of investigation if as is their job. that's their role with the fbi. that's not a dangerous conspiracy theory, that's the truth. that's how intelligence agencies collect information. ♪ ♪

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been extremely active in pushing people towards criminal conduct. we saw those allegations raiseed in the michigan case involving the governor there. the treatment of these sources are also going to be the a subject of continued debate. this is the department that had someone announce they were going to do a shock and awe a, they were going to go after everyone they could to deter future misconduct. and for these three, there was a lot to less shock and i awe involved in how they were treated. elizabeth: that was jonathan turley questioning why the january 6th fbi inform minutes were not charged -- informants while 1500 others were arrested. joining us now, nypd inspector paul mauro. paul, it's great to see you. help us out here if you can. you're the expert here. the justice department inspector general confirmed there were no fbi workers in the january 6th crowd, but there were more than two dozen confidential human sources, 26 of them.

4 go into the capitol, they were not charged or prosecuted. the fbi assigned just 3 overall to be there. what is happening here? people are asking questions about. >> so let's make a distinction. you know, the fbi agents that would be undercover are distinct from the confidential human sources that they're talking about here which are essentially flips. they're people that they have some leverage on. ultimately, they do end up paying hem. that's the general routine because it's the most dependable way to keep people doing what you want. what's disturbing is the vast majority of them, over 20, went there at their own behest. that's not to 4:you -- how you run a source. you can't have sources assigned to you who are supposed to have handlers, agents directing their activities, etc., if they go running off to something like this, well, then they're doing it on their own. you have to say who's running them, who's supervising them,

and is there reporting? they're not being directed, they're just acting independently as assets. that stuff becomes very problematic if and when you go to a prosecution which is, of course, what happened here. so at the very least, this was a really shoddy-run operation. and at most, at most it argues that that there was some willful blindness here as to how some of these assets were operating. elizabeth: yeah. i mean, the doj inspector general report is emphasizing none of the sources were authorized or directed by the bureau to break the law or encourage others to commit illegal acts, but we don't know what these sources actually did on the ground. four informants entered the capitol hill building, 13 entered restricted grounds. the doj found money of the informants were authorized to do any of this, but they did it. the i.g. report also says the fbi assets warned that violence was coming. but critics are asking why didn't they do more to stop

that? we've heard reports that nancy pelosi knew violence was coming and didn't do enough. that's been the criticism of her. that's been disputed. what do you make of all this? >> you know, what is the point of having sources if you're not going to use them to ascertain, hey, there's violence coming, okay? a big part of this whole thing is the fact that there was supposedly planned violence. these people were ready and able to go in to breach the capitol building, etc. well, then what were the sources doing if they weren't reporting that back to you? and i'll tell you something that's even more troubling to me, liz, and i have this from a source of my own, you know, somebody i know through media, but she tells me that the cry tier a ya for making the arresto scroll through the video, this was after the event. and if your foot touched the capitol steps, you were good to go. remember, a lot of these charges were trespasses. and while hamas is doing what they're doing, we have all this

stuff the on campuses, we had the 2020 summer of love where they were tearing apart our the cities, this is what the fbi was focused on, scrolling through the video of the january 6th event to look to put trespass charges because your foot touch toed the steps? very, very troubling. and i have a feeling especially relative to the case that was apparently on kash patel, i have a feeling that when donald trump gets in there, there's going to be a lot of revelations about this entire thing. elizabeth: that's really interesting. paul mauro, appreciate it. merry christmas to you. >> and you. >> chicago's in trouble because your mayor sucks and your governor sucks. and we're going to start right here in chicago, illinois. elizabeth: that was trump border czar tom homan taking the fight right to to liberal sanctuary cities like chicago, saying don't get in the way, we're coming to deport criminal illegal aliens and doing much more. chicago will be ground zero for deportations. it's the kickoff city. coming up, we've got a chicago resident who says people are

happy about it. but first, biden's pardon parade. he pardoned and commuted the sentences for if really bad people. a drug cartel reared, a fraud -- leader, a fraudster who stole big thyme from medicare -- bigtime from medicare. also a judge in biden's hometown who got kickbacks. next, ben ferguson is going to take it on, he's fired up. also we've got this, the new jersey mayor who's calling out the white house and john kirby for discounting and downplaying the drone crisis. the mayor's inviting them to come on up and see for themselves. that new jersey if mayor, sam morris, joins next to speak out. we're excited to talk to him. please stay right there. >> that is ridiculous. i would invite mr. kirby to comp on out or -- come on out and let's go out one night if about 9:30, 10. i'll go out behind my town hall, and you can count them with me all night. ♪ ♪

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elizabeth: welcome back. the backlash growing against this, the white house called biden's pardons and prison commutations basically historic. it's for the wrong reasons. biden commuted the prison sentences of bad people, a drug cartel dealer, more drug dealers. also a america's worst embezzler of a municipality. she stole 53 million from the small town of dixon, illinois. an investment manager who defrauded investors out of $665 million. he also commuted the sentence for the ringleader of a scheme to steal $26 million from medicare. joining us now, podcast host ben ferguson. your reaction to this. it sounds like crime really does pay. >> yeah, it does. and i think it's very cheer that he's taking orders from insiders in the democratic party that are saying, hey a, you've lost your power, and you've lost all standards for pardons when you pardoned your son, so now it's time for us to to get what we need. look at the woman you just

mentioned that embezzled millions and millions -- sorry tens of millions of dollars. it was so egregious, that apparently she went and ate at a steakhouse every night on the dimes of the taxpayers embezzling money and was also ordering extra steaks that she would then take home every night and feed to her dogs. she became one of the most horrific breeders of horses in the country embezzling the tens of millions of dollars. so she's living this lifestyle and then trying to capitalize off the money she's stealing doing these most, you know, extreme businesses, horse breeding and then feeding her dogs steak from the steakhouse that the taxpayers are paying for. and this is who joe biden decides is deserving of clemency. you look at the list, and it's clearly the democrats saying take the worst among us, and let's give them what you gave youren son. and it's just open -- your son. and it's just open season for

people that have broken the law and, most importantly, abused their power. this is abuse of power by the biden crime family are, no different than the woman on the screen right now. elizabeth: yeah. they was a town comptroller, and it's being called the largest municipal embezzlement in u.s. history, and biden commuted her sentence. she bought luxury goods, real estate. also this, biden outraged residents in his hometown of scranton. he pardoned former county judge michael conahan if who had pleaded guilty to to wrongly putting in prison juveniles in a cash scandal. in exchange for $2 million in kickbacks. >> $2 million in kickbacks. so you're buying what you want from these corrupt individuals. but, again, when your son gets away with more than a decade of criminal activity, then everyone can walk in and say, well, this is the new standard. this is no standard. you can be someone that breaks the law, that's been convicted,

that has done horrible things and abused their position of power many government, and we are going to let you -- ask you to let them out or give clemency and he's saying, sure, no problem, because this is what my whole family did. i think the most important part is this, i think why he's doing this now is not because he cares about these people, i think he's setting up for the next round of pardons which is going to have the last name biden all over it and business associates of his family business practices with all these corrupt leaders. this is setting him up to say everyone in the biden crime family, you're next. stuart: -- elizabeth: ben pirg theson, thanks for joining us. mysterious drone sightings spreading across the united states now. sightings from new jersey all the way to california. the drone crisis has hit the white house. fox news' nate foy live in elizabeth, new jersey, with the story. nate, good to see you again. >> reporter: hey, liz, good to see you. president-elect donald trump just posted on truth social moments ago applying some

pressure on the biden administration saying either get some answers to the public or shoot these drones down. this is after a busy night of reported sightings across the entire country from if coast to coast. we had one in california last night and also in maryland where former governor larry hogan took the video himself. take a look at this video. he said that this was from right outside his home about 25 miles from the nation's capital. he says that they were out there for about 45 minutes. but i mentioned a busy night. take a looked at these new videos, a triple box from new jersey, connecticut and california. connecticut senator richard a blumenthal is now requesting an immediate briefing from the faa writing, quote, this briefing should cover all details available regarding these drones as to ownership, operation, impacts on aviation, national security and privacy. fox news spoke with a drone expert this morning who agrees with the fbi's assessment that many of these sightings are

actually manned aircraft operating lawfully. >> i have looked at hundreds of videos at this point. every one of them is an airplane. do not be scared. sleep well at night. be worried that your neighbor's a bad pilot with their small drone and crashes into your window or something like that. but in terms of large drones flying over, unfortunately, they're just not there. >> reporter: a lot of people don't believe that though, liz. in fact, tonight whatever they are in the sky whether it be drones or airplanes, people think they're drones in yonkers, new york. state police confirms that it's investigating with federal partners, and congressman jeff van drew of new jersey said that according to reports several drones have been seen near critical infrastructure in new jersey if including a nuclear power plant in salem county. we'll send it back to you. elizabeth: bad stuff. nate foy, thank you. appreciate you. >> reporter: you got it. >> on review of available imagery, it appears that many of

the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft that are being operated lawfully. >> that that guy's an idiot. colonel of the state police said one of his helicopters was hovering above a 6-foot-wide drone, and he landed that helicopter because he felt unsafe for his pilots. >> i'm incredulous about that. that is ridiculous. i would inmate mr. kirby to, come on out, mr. kirby, and let's go out one night about 9:30, 10:00. elizabeth: first, that was white house spokesman john kirby and then new jersey officials not liking what he said about drones swarming the skies over new jersey. they've also been spotted in pennsylvania, new york, connecticut, california, oregon and outside d.c. joining us now the mayor of mine hill, new mexico new jersey -- new jersey, who was in that sound clip, mayor sam morris. it's great to have you on, sir. your honor, what are you seeing in your town?

what are you hearing about the response out of washington about this? >> well, in our town, you know, i will tell you around this northern morris county area it's gotten a little more spotty. they're not as common as they were every night in every town. a last night my town was very quiet. other towns near me were abuzz with activity. i would say this, i would say that mr. kirby just called the security people at the arsenal liars, the ocean county sheriff's department liars and the state police of new jersey. in his statement he said it has never been corroborated by officials. our federal military facility did a press release saying they believe they've had up to 16 different encounters with drones. ocean county sheriff's department has said the same thing, that they actually tried to chase them with a drone. i think that was a couple of

days ago. and then, of course, mr. bergen referred to the state mis' statement. -- police's statement that. we got from colonel callahan of the state police who is the most credible guy in the state of new jersey. and i don't understand why mr. kirby would say all three of those entities are not telling the truth. i don't think he wants to deal with it. elizabeth: who do you think is flying them? >> boy, do i in the want to speculate on that one. but i -- there is a bigger and bigger part of me that thinks that this is some kind of a publicity stunt, for lack of a better way the say it. they don't hide. they come out about now and they go until 11 at night, 12 at night according to state police. i saw one the the other morning at 5:15 in the morning, before day break, and they're not hiding anything. part of me thinks that it may be some kind of military contractor who wants to popularize their drones. they may be some company with super high-tech or something

that thinks they're impressing people. i really don't know though, you know, as far as what it actually is. i'm not sure. elizabeth: all right. >> i will tell you, and i share this with a lot of people, if whatever this is was trying to hurt us and people are very scared about that, i believe that they would have done it and they would have done it in more stealth and in the middle of the night at two or three in the morning, not at 8 p.m. elizabeth: all right. mayor sam months, thanks for joining us -- sam morris. >> thank you for having me. >> when you look at this attorney general, this department of justice, of all the things you can say about it the one thing you really cannot say is that it operated as a political arm of the white house. i can attest to that. finish. elizabeth: okay. a former top biden white house aide, anita dunn, we're going to show to it. she got shut down by trump adviser jason miller for trying to claim lawfarety not exist in the biden white house. we've got multiple people saying, yeah, it did.

we're going to show you the sound of that takedown. liz peek is going to take it on. also this story -- >> what was the purpose of you raising your right hand? what was the purpose of that? that's crazy. you are many violation of the constitution, the u.s. constitution, the law of the land, the supreme law of the land. elizabeth: chicago residents have had it, they're in a world of pain from biden's open borders. rising crime, gangs, taxes going up, chaos. trump border czar tom homan is going to ride to the rescue. he says chicago will be ground zero for the first deportations of illegal aliens. and he says he'll prosecute if anyone trying to stop it. that chicago resident you just saw speaking out is here to respond. but first, let's check in with dagen and brian to see what's coming up on "the bottom with line." brian: hey, liz, good to see you. okay, so drones, drones, drones. did you to know we actually have

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saying kamala harris basically cost democrats their jobs in d.c. because of her historic loss to the trump, and that was jason miller, a top aide to trump, with the takedown showing why a realtime fact check of anita dunn, a longtime biden adviser, was needed. she tried to downplay lawfare that destroyed democrat credibility. let's welcome back to the show liz peek, fox news contributor. great writer. weren't there five cases against trump, 91 charges? didn't the supreme court have to to deal with this? >> uh, without a doubt. and, liz, all you have to do is look at the documents case where donald trump was prosecuted, indicted for having unsecured documents in his house. by the way, as president he was allowed to take those documents out of the white house when he left office. gets, you know, in tremendous legal trouble whereas joe biden who was never allowed to take secret documents out of congress as a senator or the white house as a vice president is basically

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get in the way, he's going to prosecute them. look who's here, chicago resident, member of chicago fripps red sow -- flips red, zoe lee. we're excited to talk to you. what is going on with your democrat mayor here, brandon johnson? is. >> he should be convicted of treason. elizabeth: why? >> that's number one. [laughter] we are dealing with a mayor who is a democratic socialist. and he's bringing agenda to chicago that's just not going to work. and it is an agenda of illegal immigration that has gotten out of hand since last year because i believe that the city of chicago believe that president biden was going to continue to send funding for this illegal immigration invasion, and it did

not the happen a like that. and now they're all over the place because they don't have any money to cover this situation or this mess that's in chicago. elizabeth: so, basically, this was a money machine, a money machine operation with federal money coming out the door through nonprofits, what are called ngos. it's sort of this secret infrastructure where cities and democrats are run -- they're getting funding for it, is that what's happened? >> yes. and it's gotten out of hand, you know? chicago pushed back very fast, especially the south side and the west side of chicago because of all of the money that was stolen because of the immigration scam. they thought that they were going to be able to put the illegal immigrants in our communities, and we were going to allow that. elizabeth: so you guys are for deportations. can you talk to us about the crime in chicago?

can you talk to us about the tax situation? if because we're hearing democrats there want to raise taxes on water bottles, on even grocery bags, on streaming tv and even uber rides to pay for this. >> yes. because we are $1.2 billion in a deficit because of this illegal immigration scam. i call it a ponzi scheme. i remember when the first 51 million was voted on, and i said i don't even understand why they passed that the because that is not enough money. that's going to be nowhere near enough money the take care of the immigrants. and it's shown that. i believe we are almost at $2.2 billion over, and it's getting worse. the crime in chicago is getting worse especially now that we don't have shot spotter, what was a detection when it comes to

people getting shot. they took that away saying that it wasn't working, and they were supposed to replace it with another technology or thing like that, but that didn't work. it's on 20 bodies where shots fired used to be -- elizabeth: okay, got it. yeah. listen, zoe, we hear you loud and clear. you did a great job there. we want to have you back on. you were terrific breaking it town for the viewer. thank you so much, zoe leigh. thanks for watching "the evening edit." now it's time to send it over to dage