david: so thank you, all, so much for watching this special edition of kudlow. we hope you liked it and you can catch me by the way co-hosting the bottom line in just an hour here on fox business. you don't want to miss that but you don't want to miss jason chaffetz. he's in for elizabeth macdonald tonight with a great show planned for you. jason? >> hey, thanks, david i appreciate it . we'll see you again in an hour but until then

i'm jason chaffetz in for elizabeth macdonald and welcome to this special edition of the "evening edit." as president-elect trump gets ready to take office, mexico launches an app to help detained migrants. while he teams up with tech leaders on h-1b visa program sparking debate and criticism, fox news matt finn is live in west palm beach, florida. matt? tell us the latest. reporter: a lot of sensitive meetings happening here in west palm beach, jason. the trump administration trying to get its ducks in a row for the first 100 days and these h-1b visas sparking discourse with elon musk leading the charge in their defense. musk saying he will go to war over the visas. president-elect trump essentially settling the matter for now telling the new york post that he is in favor of h-1b visas. he has people working for him

who use them and he's going to continue to support them. the visas historically have allowed qualified foreign workers into the u.s. for specialty jobs, and an estimated 85,000 plus each year. however some republicans and democrats tell fox business that the h-1b program should only be used to attract brilliant foreign workers. the visas should not takeaway entry level jobs from americans. and heading into the first 100 days, immigration all around a major topic. a judge ordered the biden administration to stop auctioning off large portions of president trump's southern border wall which it had been selling for pennies on the dollar. the incoming trump administration is looking to do a 180 on biden's border policies. some democrats have signaled they may be willing to work together. >> let's secure our borders but let's think about immigration slightly differently as an economic issue, and again, you might find there are some democrats like myself that are willing to work with republicans if they don't go too far.

>> the southern border is always talked about but the northern border is a concern as well. some canadian officials were here in west palm beach to have meetings with the incoming trump administration. president-elect trump has been threatening that 25% tariff against canadian goods. jason? >> jason: matt, thank you. appreciate it. president-elect trump telling the new york post that he supports immigration is visas for highly skilled workers siding with elon musk. he also says that he has many h-1b visas on his properties. the visas allow companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupation. let's welcome to the show incoming border czar, tom homan. tom? thanks for joining us. my understanding is theres something like 90 different types of visas that you can get through. where do you think this h-1b visa issue is going,

and i think enforcement of these visas when they expire you've gotta go home. it's going to be a big issue, right? >> yeah, the enforcement of the visas we're going to look at very seriously and i think it's a big part of illegal immigration, and overstaying the visas illegal and it'll be part of our operational plan. as far as h-1b visas the policies right now i'm not going to get ahead of the president on this but i can guarantee you when the president comes up with an immigration plan it will be good. during this last administration he based most illegal immigration, most legal immigration based on merit. he still had a cutoff for moms and dads, sons and daughter and family-type immigration but it wasn't about the lottery and stuff that was ridiculous parts of the immigration plan. his first immigration plan in 2016 i thought was a very good plan. of course that's with pushback on it because it wasn't giving away enough but i have total

faith when the president sits down with his new immigration plan which i'm sure i'll be part of that discussion that the h-1b program will be monitored in such a way it's good for the united states and i think people will support when he comes up with a final plan but i'm not getting ahead of what he's going to do because i haven't had a private discussion so we'll see what he comes up with but look the first plan was brilliant. i think the second plan is just as good. >> jason: gop lawmakers are split on capitol hill. republican congressman mike lawler of new york calls the visa program critical to the kherson but republican senator eric schmitt says the visa system needs reformed. listen to what he has to say and we'll get your reaction, tom. >> the context we need to keep in mind here is that the american workers have been left behind by this economy. many factories jobs have been sent overseas and the abuses of the h-1b program have been evident where you have sort of

the sons and daughters of those factory workers who lost their jobs with white collar jobs and they are training their replacements. the foreign workers undercutting their wages so i think the solution here, president trump is actually articulated in 2020 is to reform that system. you know, get rid of the abuse, make it merit-based and make sure that we're not undercutting wages and have americans replace or train their foreign replacements. >> jason: tom, actually, you know what? let's do this. i think the debate will go on and the job that i.c.e. and you have is to actually enforce the visas so when they do expire that people actually leave the country whether they are on a student visa, or whatever else. but one of the things that caught my attention today, i really want to get your comment on. if you go to foxnews.com they have his story. two girls, coming across the border dropped off by coyotes, 9-year-old girl, 5-year-old girl and a note, with a city and a telephone number.

they are just dropped off. now the inspector general has said that there are more than 30,000 unaccompanied minors that have court dates that didn't show up in the last four to five years and we know there are hundreds of thousands of these unaccompanied minors that have come across the border. as you deal with the expulsion of people that are committing crimes and that are here illegally, how do you prioritize this somewhat do you do about literally the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors that are now missing in the united states? >> first of all, i'll talk about the first subject. president trump, i have all the confidence in the world. he's not leaving american workers behind at all. he is america-first and you can be promised on that but president trump gave me three priorities. secure the border, run a deportation operation which we'll prioritize public safety threats and security threats and he wants to find the over 300,000 missing children that the biden administration can't find, that they released to

unvetted sponsors that they cannot contact. we need to find these children and that's a priority for president trump because we know that based on my three and a half decades of experience and child trafficking, many of these children are forced labor. matter of fact i.c.e. already found some. many of them being sex trafficking. many of them will be just fine but we need to find these children and rescue them. that's the hardest task of all three, because you know you and i, jason, we have a footprint, we own homes, cars, we pay bills, credit cards. children don't have a footprint so we've got to count on the footprint from the sponsors. sponsors that show identification that might not have been a legitimate dedication. it's going to be hard but we're going to help, we've got to count on american people to help us on this task because you're a parent, i'm a parent, every parent in this country has an innate ability to recognize when something isn't right with a child so there's a lot of

private organizations out there that are concentrating on child trafficking. we want to partner with them. it's going to be all government process and american citizens and saving these children. it's a priority president trump wants to do and it's hard but we'll give everything we got to rescue these children. we'll do the immigration consequences later. right now we need to save children because many are living a life of hell everyday. >> jason: tom, i know you feel the way i do and i'm so glad donald trump is coming into this because what joe biden and kamala harris did, what the democrats have done to entice and facilitate this human trafficking by the tens of thousands of young innocent people is absolutely one of the most disgusting and under-reported stories out there so thank goodness you're going to be after it on january 20. it can't happen soon enough. there are a lot of kids out there that need rescuing and we're all counting on you to make it happen so tom homan, thanks for joining us on the "evening edit." >> you can count on that. >> jason: absolutely.

auto insurance costs are up over 20% this year, with drivers expected to pay around $2,500 on average in 2025, and state farm is set to raise rates by 18% in california, oh, my goodness, sorry, california. starting in january, for more on all this , max gordon is live in los angeles with more. max? >> jason, well you said it right there. auto insurance is really expensive right now and a lot of folks are worried about their premiums going even higher. here at auto works collision center in los angeles, the co-owner says that customers are coming in and want to pay out-of-pocket and don't want to use their insurance. take a listen. >> now i have customers returning customers of mine that are willing to pay four or five grand out-of-pocket to avoid going through their insurance company. there's a fear of their premium going up and there's a bigger fear of their insurance provider

dropping them. >> this as auto insurance prices have been soaring. according to the bureau of labor statistics the cost of auto insurance is up 57% since january of 2021. according to nerd wallet the average cost is 598 bucks the average cost for full coverage $2,281. >> the rise in auto insurance has been driven by a number of factors including rising accident frequency and severity. we've seen a significant increase after the pandemic and also more fatalities and injuries leading to increased claims. >> according to the insurance information institute the uptick in price has also been driven by increases in the cost to repair vehicles because of supply chain issues, higher labor costs and increased tech menus in vehicles making them tougher to repair. the insurance information institute projects that auto repair costs with labor included

will rise 3.8% in 2025. now there's a big difference in the cost of insurance between the states for full coverage in louisiana, it is more than $4,000 per year. that's the cost in the u.s. the cheapest for full coverage that honor goes to wyoming at about $11 per year. jason? >> jason: max gordon, thank you. do appreciate it. that's because everybody is driving a truck in wyoming. they have got tough vehicles up there. all right let welcome to the show fox news contributor phil flynn and american action forum president doug holt dis: i want your reaction each of you. doug let's start with you. this is huge increases for the average american. >> they are enormous increases and a reflection of the fact that insurance is a backward-looking cost. you have to cover the cost of the vehicle being repaired and those costs all went up and then states often don't let insurers raise rates and so they get behind and now they are

jacking them up as much as they can, and so the bottom line is you still have to pay it out-of-pocket and american families are dealing with it. the inflation troubles are not over yet. >> jason: phil, what's your reaction? what can the average person do other than swallow the cost? >> drive safely. i guess? but it's crazy, because part of the thing when look at auto insurance, this is partly the biden administration. one of the costs that really drove up insurance was the pandemic and not being able to get parts but the push towards electric cars. it's incredible the amount it takes to ensure an electric car over a normal vehicle it's so much more expensive. the replacements costs are through the roof and you can't repair them, right? if you damage those batteries, that's a huge cost so that's one of the other factors i think that are driving up these prices. >> jason: yeah, these are huge costs. now, part of the solution i think is mixing it up and shaking up washington d.c.

certainly that is felt in outgoing new hampshire governor chris sununu on why he wants americans to embrace the fiscal responsibility, shake-up the establishment in washington d.c. here is governor sununu. >> my argument to the republicans on the hill here are america has stood up in 2024 and said they want to breakthrough the establishment, the traditional bubble of washington d.c. and want a little bit of disruption and some fiscal sanity and the way i put it they want to ensure that compact with america, that families have to balance a budget, washington has to balance a budget and that reinstills some of the trust this place has lost. now elon is very unique in that he's an engineer, obviously very partial to engineers. he's always looking for efficiency. you have to know how the system works, otherwise you'll be a lot of talk and nothing will move on the hill so he's got to build a team around him that understands to be done with executive order, on the hill.

>> jason: phil, look, i find governor sununu to be very reasonable but it's interesting how more centrist people and more non-fiscal conservatives react to elon musk and doge and quite frankly president trump. >> well they are losing their minds, right? they are throwing everything out the window and they are so concerned about elon but look at all of the billions of dollars we could potentially save. listen. we can argue about the causes of inflation and the concerns about it but at the end of the day we know it's government spending. our deficits are through the roof. we're spending too much money, and the problem is, is that we're wasting a lot of it. i think everybody would love to see their taxes actually come back to them but when the government just wastes it, that's hurting the economy and i think really if you can get government spending under control, get rid of government

waste, i think that's going to be the first major step and ending the inflation problem we've had. >> jason: doug i want to move on and talk about what donald trump is telling the european union. he wants them to buy more american-made oil & gas or face tariffs all the way as he calls it. tariffs all the way. what do you think of the president's plan and push to sell more oil & gas to europe? >> well, i have loved the fact that he's got a plan to get the government out of energy markets, out of oil markets, out of gas markets. i'm not so sure he's putting himself back in the middle to be honest. i see no problem with natural gas. the biden administration was dead set on limiting the amount produced and exported, and going the other direction of both of those be fine. on oil markets, if the europeans are going to take more oil its got to come from somewhere so then the question becomes does it mean it comes at the expense

of saudi arabia? does he want to do that? does he want to take it out from other customers? so you get into this sort of picking winners business, i'm not a big fan of that and ultimately, i do think you have to wonder how effective this will be. he made a great push to put tariffs on china, continues to do so. we haven't changed china's behavior one bit so it takes more than just a tariff to change these kinds of behaviors. >> jason: well, phil, and doug, thank you so much for joining us on the "evening edit." wish you had more time but we've got to keep moving on. >> thank you. >> and i want to thank mike johnson. i think he's doing a terrific job. terrific job. >> jason: president-elect donald trump says that speaker mike johnson has his complete and total endorsement. major boost for the top house republican ahead of the critical vote on friday. west virginia congressman-elect riley moore joins us next to

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fight to hold on to the house speaker-ship. let's welcome to the show west virginia congressman-elect riley moore. congratulations on the victory. you're in for the ride of your life. i serve in congress for over eight years and first vote, most important vote. voting for speaker. how are you going to vote and what do you expect on what is expected to be a very tight vote? >> well jason thanks so much for having me on and thank you for the craigs. yes, first vote will be for speaker of the house. i am voting for mike johnson. he has the full and total endorsement of president donald trump. this is a state that i represent here in the second congressional district that voted for donald trump over 70% of us voted for donald trump in the great state of west virginia. donald trump certainly has a mandate to govern and i plan to be there to help him fulfill that mandate as a member of congress. >> jason: all right i want you

to listen to some of the other lawmakers on their potential vote for speaker johnson. listen to this. >> mike johnson inherited a disaster when matt gaetz and several of my colleagues teamed up with 208 democrats to remove kevin mccarthy which will go down as the single stupid thing i've ever seen in politics. removing mike johnson would equally be as stupid. >> do you support speaker johnson or not? >> i think that mike has done a admiral job under tough conditions but i'll keep my options open. with thomas massey already saying he's a hard no people like victoria sparks saying they are likely a no that's concerning. >> just raises a lot of concerns about how we're going to do things. are we going to work within our conference to get the solution or automatically going to run to the democrats to get votes? there needs to be a better communication between the leadership and the membership. >> jason: all right, so, what do you say to your colleagues,

because only if two of them go no, he can't get from here to there, so what's your message to those who are thinking about voting no? >> well what i'd say is that we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of unified republican government under president trump. this is obviously his final term in office and we need to come together to accomplish his agenda within the first 100 days. we don't have four years. we probably don't even have two years to really get across the line the things that president trump ran on and many of us ran on to save this country and restore it from the destruction that has been wrought by the biden administration and liberal left over the last several decades so we have to all come together and get on board with president trump and the america-first agenda. i certainly understand there's been communication problems and i think that was pointed out by a couple of the previous folks

on the show that you just pointed out and that's fair. look it's fair criticism but look, let's improve that process but not lose sight of the moment that we are in right now. we have to get this done, because if we don't, and we somehow lose control of unified government, in the mid-terms, believe me the democrats will work very hard to stop everything president trump is trying to accomplish. >> jason: riley moore we're figuring out why you were elected from west virginia. congratulations we'll see you there on the floor of the house. coming up before the end of the week. thank you so much. all right, still ahead. we remember the life and legacy of former president jimmy carter. beyond his time in office, carter spent decades working to eradicate diseases, working on bringing life saving treatments and sanitation to people around the world. president carter passed away at

the age of 100. we'll be right back.

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>> jason: former president jimmy carter has died at the age of 100. carter served as our 39th president from 1977-1981. fox news jonathan seri is live in minutes, georgia where the former president passed at his home. jonathan? reporter: hi jason. we're learning more about funeral arrangements. fawn all services for the former president will begin on saturday, january 4 and run through january 9. the events will involve viewings in atlanta and washington d.c., a service at the national cathedral and a stop outside his boyhood farm here in the small town of plains, georgia, a city where he was born and where he embraced the rural and religious way of life. >> our american traditions and values, we need to bring that

back, and it's going to be hard, but we can do it. reporter: even those who did not always agree with mr. carter politically praise his humanitarian initiatives post-presidency, and his deeply-held christian faith that guided his charitable spirit. >> we're part of the bible down here in georgia particularly in south georgia, and i would submit to you that jimmy carter may be remembered more for his faith than for his politics. reporter: on his truth social platform president-elect trump writes about mr. carter. while i strongly disagree with him philosophically and politically i also realize he truly loved and respected our country and all it stands for. he worked hard to make america a better place and for that, i give him my highest respect. in tribute to the memory of his predecessor president biden has ordered flags to fly at half staff at federal institutions for a period of 30 days and he's designated january 9, 2025, as a

national day of mourning. the former president's legacy lives on in the carter center. the international non-profit organization he created in partnership with emory university to help eradicate disease, promote fair elections and negotiate peace. and jason, mr. carter, who was 100 years old when he died, will be buried next to his beloved wife roselyn, his wife of 77 years. he will be buried near a willow tree on the couple's property near their residence. jason? >> jason: jonathan seri, thank you. president jimmy carter also leaving behind a long legacy in public health. spending decades working to eradicate diseases a working to bring life saving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world. for more on all this let's welcome fox news senior medical analyst dr. marc siegel. i read that in the 1,980s carter

and his wife set out to eradicate this horrific disease the guinea worm which is an infection that has no treatment other than painstakingly drawing out the parasite over days or weeks. it just sounds awful. tell us about the progress they made and what the carters did to fight what it sounds like a horrific situation. >> extraordinary and the carter center is still involved in this work on his behalf. now that he's gone. 1986 they started this , there was three and a half million cases in the world that year in 1986 in sub sanctuary hera africa and asia, and now, in 2023 last year, there were 14 cases. that's how effective their work is and what these guinea worms roanne sones what you just said, long worms that they make wounds and they literally have to be physically extracted and could

affect joints and they can make you quite disabled, and what's really extraordinary is the public health measure that gets rid of them, jason, is simply filtering water, using filters, which the carter center helped to spread all around the world in these affected regions and to teach people that if they are infected with it to stay away from water other people are using. that's how simple it is. in this case it's not a treatment. it's not a medication. it's not an effective vaccine. it's that public health education that's so important that he spread. extremely impoant accomplishment unprecedented to literally wipe out a disease that way. >> jason: it is amazing. living in the united states, we hit the lottery because we take clean water and housing for granted and yet there's so many people around the world that don't have that, and it's hard for people to even fathom that. dr. marc siegel really do appreciate you joining us on

the "evening edit." >> thank you, jason. >> i can proudly proclaim tha the golden age of america is upon us. it's going to be a golden age. there's a spirit that we have now that we didn't have just a short while ago. >> jason: still ahead, a new shocking report from the washington post. president biden privately regrets dropping out of the election. and insists he could have beaten president trump. i know former white house chief speechwriter bill mcgurn will have a lot to say about that, but first, let's check in with our friends jackie deangelis and david asman to see what they have coming up at the top of the hour on the bottom line. david: we have so much coming up i don't know if you can handle it so strap down your seat belts. tomi lahren is first up. democrats what they have to promise that themselves as their

new years resolution. the first step is promising that they will recognize reality. then we've got greg jarrett on how trump and homan plan to take down criminal aliens in sanctuary cities. jackie: city maloy will join us first we'll talk about the oil & gas revival to come, under the president-elect but he also says don't start popping the champaign just yet for the death of esg, so we'll find out why he's saying that. i hope he's not right. we'll see you at the top of the hour.

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>> jason: could have, would have, should have. president biden reportedly regrets dropping his june decision to dropout of the presidential race. according to the washington post, he has since told others that he still believes he could have beaten president-elect trump in november despite his poor debate performance, low approval ratings that forced him to exit the race. fox news lucas tomlinson has the latest details live from st. croix, in the virgin islands where the president is on vacation yet again. lucas? reporter: well, good evening jason. that's right according to the washington post president biden has reportedly told aids he regrets dropping out, despite

having a 39% approval rating of course that approval rating has been under water since that withdrawal from afghanistan and was just two years ago that 75% of democrats wanted somebody else to be their nominee to run for president of the united states. we had some reaction to that washington post story from the national review. >> biden and his aids may very well breve they could have defeated donald trump. that's not what the data suggests. the data suggests that joe biden never led over the course of a year into the campaign. reporter: and biden reportedly has another regret as well. according to the washington post biden has also said he should have picked someone other than merrick garland as attorney general complaining about the justice department's slowness under garland in prosecuting trump and its aggressiveness in prosecuting biden's son hunter and what would not likely have helped biden's re-election chances, jason, are these newly-released photos showing biden shaking hands posing with chinese

businessmen, alongside hunter and his business associates during a december 2013 trip to beijing when biden was vice president. biden has long denied any involvement in his sons overseas business dealings. the white house reacting to these photos. "this trip which occurred over a decade ago is old news. house republicans already wasted years and millions of taxpayer dollars proving that the president was not in business with his son. it's pastime to call it a day." now, jason, hunter biden is with his father here in st. croix, both spotted leaving mass yesterday in downtown christiansted, and it's something to note is that hunter's lawyer, abby lowell says these photos are nothing new. jason? >> jason: yeah, i'm sure they aren't new. they just wouldn't release them to the public. lucas tomlinson, one of the best jobs in america right now, covering the president sleeping on the beach there in st. croix.

keep up the good, hard work, lucas. really appreciate it. >> little busier yesterday. >> jason: enjoy your time. happy new year. for more on all this let's welcome main street columnist for the "wall street journal" bill mcgurn. joe biden, he still thinks he would have won if he had run. what do you think of that? >> well that's the reason he was dilutional, but i think in his mind, in a way the outcome pleased him, because he can still say he's the only democrat that beat donald trump and they took him out. what he ignores in that is that at the time he left the race, people were seeing and his candidacy through the filter of that disastrous debate, where he was incoherent, looking confused like he didn't know where he was and he would never have caught up with him and i think

democrats are mad, not because he lost, lost in the election. i think what they're really mad is that the debate exposed him. many of the same people, including nancy pelosi, that now say biden should have left earlier and that he cost us the white house. they were telling us he was fine, sharp as a tack. remember all those press conferences where karine jean-pierre was saying he exhausts the staff es half his age and people turn to tv and see him hobbling off a platform. >> jason: yeah, no, i think it was one of the more under-reported stories. in fact the cbs news reporter, he blasted the media for ignoring president biden's cognitive decline. have a lac look at this , bill. >> under-reported and that be joe biden's obvious cognizant decline that became undeniable in the debate. unquestioned, and you know, it's

starting to emerge now his advisors kind of managed his limitations and reported in the "wall street journal" for fours, and yet he insisted that he could still run for president. we should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit for office for another four years. >> jason: oh, sure now he say this , after an election. it was obvious it wasn't just the debate, bill. there were so many signs of the cognitive decline years before this. >> exactly. the stories about the people in the white house for four years covering this up. so many people knew better, and they decided to cover it up instead, whether the animosity to trump or favoring biden, and that's why they're so mad, because the debate exposed their lie to everyone in america. now they are all joining that it's biden's fault he stayed on too long. they should have talked to him

before this election began and persuaded him to step down then but they didn't. instead they opted to lie. also, they still aren't being honest. why did joe biden step down? you know? the reality is because people saw he couldn't do it mentally but they never explained the explanation is being a statesman to make room for a better candidate. >> jason: yeah, if he truly wanted to pass the baton to the next generation, he could have done so a year before and taken the last year of his presidency as a victory lap, but he chose not to do that. bill mcgurn thank you for joining us happy new year. >> happy new year to you, jason. >> jason: all right, so some sad news to report. charles dolan, the founder of cablevision and richard parsons the former time-warner ceo, they have both passed away. dolan started multiple companies including hbo. he also introduced 24 hour local

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jason: president trump has asked supreme court do delay potential tiktok ban, trump's attorneys saying thain coming administration should have opportunity to decide what happens, with more on the story we go to grady trimble at the white house. reporter: it is looking unlikely that tiktok sells in the next 20 days, so that could mean that potential ban could go into effect the day before president trump is inaugurated. so what he is asking, the supreme court, through his attorneys is for court to pause the potential ban, to give him time to worko a solution to concerns about tiktok and chinese parent company bytedance, an attorney for trump writes to

the court: >> concerns which president trump himself has acknowledged. to that point be you will remember in 2020 then president trump is one of first to suggest that tiktok needs to be banned because of its ties to china on the campaign trail he used it to reach young voters and promise that social media platform is not going away. >> we love tiktok, i'm going to save tiktok biden wants to get rid of tiktok, he has no idea. he idea what the hell he is doing. reporter: president trump's attorney filed this new petition. we expect doj on make the case for divester ban law over national security concerns, tiktok will make

the case against it saying it violates first amendment rights of roughly 170 million americans who use the app. we note that tiktok ceo, is among many tech leaders who have gone to mar-a-lago to meet with the president e, he is fighting for survival of tiktok. jason. jason: thank you grady. >> for more on the future of tiktok. let's welcome the federalist reporter, brianna line man. what do you think about president's effort to allow him to negotiate a solution? >> i think his convictions are sincere, negotiating can his bread and butter, i think both sides of the argument are interesting, you have one side saying china poses a national security threat, and go after tiktok, i would go

after dozens of acres of farmland being bought up or fact that biden commuted sentences of chinese spies, then you have free speech folks it is great, it is important. or hunter biden laptop story, i think that donald trump is is only person who understands there is a bal lance -- balancing act. jason: if we pull up this map in the world on what bans are it is interesting. about the potential ban of tiktok, a lot of real estate there by brianna. >> china uses tiktok as a spy app we know in 2023 we had information that bytedance was tapping to people's ip addresses, including two american journalists who were critical of tiktok. there are legitimate concerns to be had.

does it make me feel better that u.s. government would have their own opportunity to work with whoever owns tiktok in america, we know that the government colludes with big tech companies all of the time to censor americans, i don't know if we're getting a better deal but there is reason to be concerned about china having their involvement. jason: tiktok and china is not the same tiktok we have in united states of america. that is for sure. i want to move on, brianna, short time we have starting january 1st, in florida children underage of 14 they will not be allowed to have their own social media accounts is this still the direction the states should move towards? >> absolutely, another part is this you know, things like pornograph you have to have age verification, this is how you win the culture war, children have been hyper sexualized by the left, and limiting their exposure, going on-line at 11 or 12 does help keep

generation st -- safe and prosperous and allow them to be kids without the aggressive companies pushing things to young children. jason: yeah, interesting story, we'll see how this plays use, brianna lyman thank you. >> happy new year. jason: i am jason chaffetz, i appreciate elizabeth macdonald for allowing me to sit in for her, thank you for watching special edition of "the evening edit" on fox business, dvr the show, for us old school people, tape it. time for "the bottom line" we welcome jackie and david, looking forward to your show. >> thank you, jason. david: happy new year. you don't have to tape it watch it liv