david: well thank you so much for watching this special edition of kudlow and if you think that's special, be sure to tune in on monday, larry himself will be broadcasting live from d.c. for inauguration day. you do not want to miss it, and you do not want to miss elizabeth macdonald whose going to take you through the next hour. liz: good to see you david thank you so much a great show. welcome to the "evening edit." i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> his mental acuity is great, it's fine, it's as good as its been over the years. all this right wing propaganda his mental acuity has declined

is wrong. >> what do you say to americans who feel as though you and other top democrats mislead them about president biden's mental acuity? liz: that was senator chuck schumer getting grilled by nbc on denying and misleading america about president biden's decline, but we've got this new new york times bombshell report. senator chuck schumer did know about his all along. tonight former trump deputy press secretary hogan gidley on the new and what people are saying are disturbing details in this time's report. plus this new debate in d.c. does this entirely overturn biden's legacy. also tonight this story. >> mayorkas let in about 12,000 murders, new york allowed 16,000 rapists, 600,000 people with criminal convictions. how many illegals will you plan to house in luxury hotel rooms and how about sex change operations for illegals?

liz: that was ohio senator bernie marino going after president biden and dhs secretary mayorkas for making america less safe by putting the border in a state of collapse. kristi noem really went toe-to-toe with democrat senators on how bad it is at her confirmation hearing today. she's going to be trump's dhs secretary if she gets confirmed. she's talking about how they want to fix it. we've got more sound to what went down but senate democrats are trying to stop trump's agenda. republican senator rick scott joins us in moments. he was at the senate confirmation hearing for kristi noem and will breakdown the fireworks plus this story. >> i'm going to make a bold statement. i'm not scared. i'll say what people can't say. if we cut one position, if we close one station, if we close one resource, the residents of los angeles are going to pay the ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. liz: we'll show you even more sound from that meeting of l.a. firefighter commissions, commissioners warning l.a. city

officials just three weeks before the palisades fire exploded that yes, people will die because of democrat budget cuts to l.a. firefighting. we've got new developments on the story coming up, fitness expert nutritionists and author jillian michaels is here to react and she's winning praise for being outspoken and compassionate about what's going on with the l.a. fire victims but first this story. >> you're acting like you're campaigning. he won the election and look at how they are still acting. it's all disgusting to watch. i didn't believe that man was the right man for the job. >> democrats including you were relentlessly harsh against special counsel robert herr for making an observation that proved pretty accurate about how joe biden might appear to a jury as a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. liz: that was espn's steven a. smith saying yeah, president biden was not fit to

run again, and then you heard from jake tapper pushing back on adam schiff saying robert herr's report on president biden was accurate. pretty accurate. it called out basically biden for essentially being "senile" and now nbc is rocking d.c. with a scathing story calling president biden"one of the great tragedies of american politics." that biden "leaves a nation divided" a democrat party in tatters, and the american people questioning biden's claim he respects the rule of law. joe biden's final interview on msnbc again dark, angry and bitter. joining us now, media chairman and editor in chief steve forbes. steve great to see you again on this friday. what do you make of all of this? >> i think calling it a tragedy makes it sound like sha shakessperian. back in america literally fell apart, and everywhere you look, whether it's the economy, open

border, inflation, overseas the cav afghanistan mess, whichd to ukraine, and israel when they responded october 7, his obscene cow towing to the iranians not rebuilding the military in the face of a chinese military build-up. everything you look at and spending bills which he's so proud of actually made the economy worse. took real sources from productive people, and put in the hands of politically motivated bureaucrats. liz: let's see , please get your reaction to joe biden's final interview on msnbc with larry o'donnell. again more falsehoods including claiming republican-led states "screwed up their state economy so badly" that biden just had to spend more taxpayer money on those states to fix them. you know, how about not shutting down and smothering them with mandates and hyper-regulation after the pandemic lockdowns. how about doing that in the first place. please watch this. listen. >> look the other thing,

lawrence. i've got a lot of criticism, understandably. we've invested more in red states than blue states for two reasons. one, red states really screwed up. in terms of the way they handled their economy and manufacturing and access to supply chains. liz: so really being poisonously divisive on the way out the door attacking red states, steve. let's show the viewer the government data. abc news reported red republican-led states led the nation in job creation and economic growth after the pandemic. what do you make of this what biden is saying? >> i think it just goes to show about this cognitive diplomat kline. i believe he thinks that stuff is true they feed him but more and more stories are coming out, liz, about how bad this situation was and the staff tried to cover up for it and how they tried to cutoff meetings when it was clear biden didn't know what was happening, people made decisions, without the president knowing about it, so i think he believes this nonsense, but the fact of the matter is inflation was 1.2%

when he took office. the economy was growing. look at the at situation today. higher prices, still concerned about inflation, a border now just being cured as donald trump comes into office, overseas now the u.s. is getting respect again. now they have a real president again. so everywhere you look this man is totally out of it and history will dam n him. liz: he keeps doubling down on falsehoods. the chicago fed and san francisco fed researchers also obama's top economic advisors, larry summers, steve ratner already said his government overspending did fuel inflation and i hate to get wonky but that pen wharton budget modthe inflad not reduce inflation. inflation is only down by 0.1% over the next five years. i mean, politico is now reporting historians saying he's a failed president, period.

full stop. >> well and then the facts show it. you mentioned about the red states. red states did well. why? because they cut taxes. you look at florida. didn't get caught up on the lockdowns that joe biden kept pushing. and things like that. regulations. we've had the tsunami of regulations, more regulations and peacetime in the last four years than the last hundred years put together and hurting the economy and the reason people are now beginning to be optimistic is the fact that relief is just around the corner as they used to say. liz: steve forbes great to see you again my former boss. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> his mental acuity is great. it's fine. it's as good as its been over the years. all this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong. >> what do you say to americans who feel as though you and other top democrats mislead them about president biden's mental acuity? >> look.

we didn't. >> and democrats including you were relentlessly harsh against special counsel robert herr for making an observation that proved pretty accurate about how joe biden might appear to a jury as a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory. liz: okay we're showing you that sound twice because this d.c. debate in washington, it is now blowing up. we're talking to sources there. this is the moment that the scandal of the hour, so to speak, that again jake tapper told adam schiff, special counsel robert herr's report that democrats attacked was accurate saying biden is senile and now the new york times report undercuts democrats including senator chuck schumer. chuck schumer has denied they mislead america about biden's cognitive decline. schumer is now the new york times saying knew about it for months. let's bring in former deputy press secretary to president trump, hogan gidley. hogan? let me please give you the details. the times reports senator schumer swallowed concerns for months and kept quiet about

biden's senility, but that senator schumer ultimately decided to privately tell biden, he needs to step down and cannot, in other words don't run again, he risks going down in american history as one of the darkest figures in american history. what do you think? >> you know, you said that this is one of the biggest political scandals of the hour. i think it's one of the biggest political scandals of the last 100 years. for everyone who knew joe biden, stories are now trickling out saying they were talking about his mental and physical decline. the media, after that debate, had no choice because the american people actually saw that joe biden was so far off the reservation at that point and they tried to pretend as though they had found jesus all of a sudden and said oh, we're just finding out about joe biden so spare me the media getting congratulations for recognizing what we all were talking about now for years, and even other stories have pointed to the fact that staff knew this almost on day one in

the spring of his first year, trying to pull him back from meetings. this was a horrific situation in the white house. this is the tip of the iceberg. we'll find out more in the weeks and months and years to come. liz: do you think trump is going to release more about this hogan? because the new york times report also says president biden even often forgot in the middle of their phone conversations why biden had called chuck schumer in the first place. he forgot what he had called about. so usa today says joe biden can't leave fast enough. how does this cover-up and biden senility recast his legacy and all of the decisions he made throughout his four years, because again, the new york times and "wall street journal" is reporting they did purposely, from day one, circle the wagons, cutoff access to biden, shutdown his schedule, he started at 10, ended at 4:00 in the afternoon, they just ring-fenced him off from everybody because they knew about his decline.

>> having served with president trump in the white house in the first term, it's not a 10-4:00 job. it's a 24 hour job. obviously joe biden wasn't up to it. but his legacy is one of failure. in large part because the policies he put in place hurt the american people. of course wide open southern border, wars breaking out all over the world, crippling inflation, crime speaking in our streets but this cover-up of his mental and physical decline, i think, still, is one of the biggest scandals in american history, especially as it relates to what people did for this president. the cover-up and the carrying of water from the mainstream media. this person is in control supposedly of the nuclear codes. this person is leading the world's leading superpower and he wans in with it? we're finding out now, cabinet secretaries, senators, staff knew it and no one said anything and for all of the talk of getting trump out of office, using the constitution, everyone knew this about joe biden and no

one said anything and tried to have him removed is just egregious. liz: one part of the story is disturbing is that ranking members of house arm services could not reach president biden during the afghanistan crisis. they felt he was way too optimistic, way too polyanish about oh, this is okay, kabul will be fine, afghanistan will be fine. 13 troops now dead and reports coming in that he did just want that heed line that the american pulled out in time for the 9/11 20th anniversary. >> of course and one of the worst decisions by a president ever. and when i was in the white house, i got calls all the time from reporters who said people at the pentagon say this. what say you? joe biden didn't get a single question when he tried to pretend as though no general told him this would lead to disaster the way he approximatelied out and we find out he was told that but he wanted the political headline. what a disgusting move by joe biden and 13 people who served this country are now dead because of his decision.

he owes those families and this country an apology, monday, cannot come soon enough. liz: hogan gidley thanks for joining us we appreciate you so much. >> absolutely. >> i'm going to make a bold statement. i'm not scared. i'll say what people can't say. if we cut one position, if we close one station, if we close one resource, the residents of los angeles are going to pay the ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. liz: okay, we've got more of that sound from the l.a. firefighter commissioner's meeting, warning l.a. democrat officials just three weeks before the palisades fire exploded that people would die due to democrat budget cuts to the firefighting team. more locals now calling out the dangerous negligence and wrecklessness of what went on. speaker johnson even telling governor gavin newsom, stop focusing on repeatedly tweeting selfies of yourself on twitter. focus on the l.a. fires. look whose coming up we're excited to talk to fitness

expert, nutritionist and author jillian michaels is here. again, jillian is winning praise for being outspoken and honest about what's going on in l.a. plus trump's inauguration ceremony monday will now be indoors due to extreme cold. peter doocy will bring you the latest but first this story. >> laken riley be alive today if you had been the secretary of homeland security. >> senator, my hope is that that be true, yes. liz: gop senator bernie marino today questioned if laken riley's life could have been saved under trump's tougher border security agenda. we've got more of that sound of the fighting in that confirmation hearing and we're hearing democrats will try to stop trump shutting the border. senator rick scott, he was at the hearing to confirm kristi noem as dhs secretary. we will talk to the senator on what went down. coming up, next. please stick with us we'll be back in two. >> the number one threat to our

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liz: welcome back. president trump, he's set to take office in just three days. we've got the latest details on the inauguration just around the corner. fox news peter doocy is at the white house with more. peter. reporter: the capital one center is home to the waysides ands and the washington capitols but on monday it will be home to an inaugural viewing party. the capacity, 20, 356 is way smaller than the national mall but that's where trump supporters and others who are in town will be able to view a live feed of the swearing in that's inside the capitol rotunda for the first time since ronald reagan had that, and the president-elect playing forecaster on truth social saying there's an arctic blast sweeping the country.

i don't want to see people hurt or injured in any way. it's dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of law enforcement, first responders, police canines and horses and will be hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours on the 20th in any event if you decide to come, dress warmly. there's a private trump event at his virginia golf club including a fireworks display once he gets to town. we've not been told if that's canceled yet but the timing of everything remains the same so the transfer of power is going to happen even though president biden keeps claiming it could mean the end of the system as we know it. >> i really am concerned about how fragile democracy is. it sounds corny, but i really am concerned, because you've heard me say it a hundred times. i really think we're at indiana flexion point in history. reporter: we expect president biden and president-elect trump to get quality time toking behind the scenes but after the swearing in we don't expect

presidents obama, bush, or clinton to stick around for the inaugural luncheon. liz? liz: peter doocy thank you so much. >> mayorkas let in about 12,000 murders, how many would you target to let in this country? >> my goal is to have no murders allowed into this country. >> mayorkas allowed 16,000 rapists how many would you target to let in? >> everyday i'd work to make sure there was none let into the country. >> he let 600,000 people with criminal convictions, how many would you allow in? >> we would work everyday to make sure people are safe and those with criminal convictions are immediately removed. >> how many illegals will you plan to house in luxury hotel rooms in manhattan at a cost of $6,000 per month? >> sir, clearly, senator during this election the american people said they did not support at and that that would not be a part of this new administration. >> how about sex change operations for illegals? how many of those would you suspect you would fund? >> senator, i believe that the department of homeland

security will be re-evaluating its mission in this country to not allow that going forward. liz: that was president trump's nominee to be dhs secretary kristi noem reconfirming yes she will help trump secure the border after the chaos that happened under biden. joining us now, from senate homeland security florida senator rick scott. senator? you were at the hearing today. how did you think kristi noem's performance? >> first off governor noem did a great job. she knows the importance of transparency. she knows the importance of accountability. she knows the importance of securing our border. no rapists, terrorists, traffickers none of these people coming into our country. so look i don't know how somebody could vote against her. i don't know how you could do it because do these democrats want an open border? they want more criminals? more rapes? more murders? that's what they are voting for if they vote against her.

liz: we're hearing senate democrats put up a fight against trump's agenda. what do you think of that? >> well of course. i don't get it. president trump won the electoral vote big. he won the popular vote. he is the president for the next four years. why wouldn't the democrats want him to be successful if they care about this country? but starting with chuck schumer, and all these democrats, they are going to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. they are going to do everything they can to prevent trump's agenda from getting implemented. they are going to slowdown all his nominations. fight all of his bills. i just don't get it. i don't know why they don't care about this country. they continue to support sanctuary cities and open border. they are going to continue to support high inflation, more spending, more debt, all these things. i do not get it. if they would listen to the american public they voted against those things. liz: okay so president trump is saying, day one he will do at least 100 executive actions

including fixing the border. he's going to reinstate his remain in mexico plan. he's going to get rid of biden'scbp 1 app, and stop flights of illegal migrants directly into the u.s. and stop mass parole but democrat senators tried to go after kristi noem. looks like they couldn't get any traction on what went down on kristi noem. watch senator richard lumen all here. listen. >> i just want to call your attention to an effort i've led to help reunite children with their parents, children who were separated as a result of the so-called family separation policy in the last administration. >> the trump administration never had a family separation policy. what i'm alarmed by is the over 300,000 children that went missing during the biden administration. >> unless my time is expiring i'm going to interrupt again

with apologies to say let's put aside. >> well i can't put aside 340,000 children. liz: so senator? how could senator blumenthal put aside hundreds of thousands of missing migrant children under this biden white house? the dhs did lose track of them. >> he doesn't care. he doesn't care about those children. he doesn't carat all. if he did, i'm on the committee. i've been on the committee with him for six years. he doesn't care. he did nothing to bring people together. he did nothing to make sure that whoever these kids were sent to were vetted. i have a bill that would require proper vetting before anybody, a child's release to them. he doesn't support it. i've not seen him do one thing to secure the border, to prevent the rape, prevent the murder, prevent these kids from being lost by the biden administration. not one thing, and in the entire four years that biden was in office so i think the democrats if they are smart they will come to their senses and understand

the american public is fed up but maybe not and you look at his questioning, he's not there yet. liz: senator scott, thanks for being with us tonight. we appreciate you so much. good to see you. >> bye-bye. >> i strongly believe that 50% of the people who lived in the palisades are not going to be moving back. >> people are already trying to sell their dirt. >> wow. >> knowing they aren't going back there. liz: even selling their dirt. their homes that have been burnt to the ground that was celebrity realtor josh altmann telling tmz, the upper bracket taxpayers in los angeles will flee. they will leave california. never come back. why? because of the mismanagement, the gross wrecklessness of the officials in the l.a. fires. what's going to happen? it means taxes will go up even more in california. it's just one more reason why more and more locals in california say yes. governor gavin newsom, democrat mayor karen bass, they've gotta go.

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>> we have fewer resources today than we did in the 1960s when our population was 57% what it is now. this is simply unacceptable. yet, 61% of the time, l.a. fd resources arrive past the national fire protection association recommended four minute mark and in fact in 2020, the average emergency response time was seven minutes and 53 seconds. nearly double the nfpa recommendation and i'll make a bold statement i'm not scared. i'm going to say what people can't say. if we cut one position, if we close one station, if we close one resource, the residents of los angeles are going to pay

the ultimate sacrifice and someone will die. liz: that was the president of the l.a. fire workers union, warning l.a. fire commissioners just three weeks before the palisades fire exploded that l.a. mayor karen bass' budget cuts democrat budget cuts to the l.a. fire department would literally kill people. now, at least 27 are dead, at least three dozen are missing in the l.a. fires. you just heard him say that literally, the l.a. fire response has doubled. it takes now eight minutes for a fire truck to show up, previously it was four minutes in 2020. joining us now author and fitness expert jillian michaels. jillian was born in los angeles. you know, jillian we're so excited to talk to you. we're looking to speak with you about this. i mean, jillian, words really fail at the reckless negligence and destruction in l.a. americans are really shocked at what's going on. what's your reaction to all of this? >> to be fair, equally as shocked but moreso outraged

almost to the point of being at a loss forwards, and the reaction time was not seven minutes. it was actually around 45 minutes and i happened to be exactly where the fire broke out on sunset and pacific coast highway working out at the new equinox and i was at the gym for 30 minutes and nobody showed up while the fire was burning and now it was roughly 45 minutes before anyone arrived on the scene and this is the tip of the iceberg when you start to break down how horrendously this has been mismanaged from top to bottom. liz: what else are you hearing, jillian? >> oh, my gosh. let's go back in time to my fire in 2018. this was caused from a faulty hook on a pg &e, private utility company's electric line and since then, nothing has changed. gavin newsom let them off

the hook, no pun intended. that equipment was over 100 years old and now, the word on the street is that the eaton fire was caused by southern california edison's outdated infrastructure, and i can't wrap my head around this. we've seen this happen now year after year after year. how many people need to die? how many lives need to be destroyed? people need to lose their homes, be financially devastated it's disgusting and unnecessary. why are you cutting the fire budget? why is the reservoir of 117 million gallons, why is it dry? how come you're vetoing bills as the governor of california that would help manage forestry, it was ab-2330 i encourage you to look it up that would have facilitated forestry management and helped prevent this kind of madness. the list is so long. i don't think we have enough time over the course of the remainder of your show to go over all of it. liz: jillian what you're saying is we hear it loud and clear.

governor gavin newsom is getting called out by even house speaker mike johnson for focusing more on tweeting out videos and selfies of himself on twitter. we're talking to locals in l.a. they're saying they should be held criminally liable for mishandling this disaster. i mean, pg &e has given a lot of money to gavin newsom. pg ande has been accruesed of krill tacriminal felonies and tr vice president of electric operations now runs the l.a. water and power department and gets paid 750 grand a year so it went from four minutes to seven minutes before the fire so now 45 minutes for a truck to show up. >> you have said this better than i could have. you have articulated it so perfectly. that is exactly what's going on. it's beyond incompetence and beyond negligence and it's pure corruption and it's year after.

we got to stop, even if you were to put this on climate change, that's a red herring. if that's the case, and it is in fact climate change, it would require that much preparation. if you want to hear something else that's just unbelievably upsetting, they knew about this fire on january 2nd. you could have put a command center in place. i was interviewing michael shellenberger on my podcast. they could have had a command center in place and spent $100 million recruiting firefighters from other states, asking canada and mexico ahead of time, knowing to the national guard, pre-positioning fire trucks ahead of time but that's not what happened. on january 4, the mayor left town on a trip funded by the los angeles taxpayers for business that had nothing to do with running los angeles and gavin newsom didn't call in the guard until january 8.

liz: wow. >> it's absolutely infuriating, and i want to say this. this is not a red issue. this is not a blue issue and the more we make it republican versus democrat the more democrats refuse to see what is right in front of their face, this is negligence and this is corruption at the highest level, and it is time that people are outraged and demand change and certainly going to need it when it's time to rebuild this state and we haven't even see the beginning of the fallout from these fires yet. liz: jillian michaels you just gave voice to a lot of people desperate in the l.a. area. we appreciate you so much please come back on the show again great to have you on good to see you thank you, jillian michaels. >> thank you for having me. liz: coming up watch this. >> i don't leave that we use dei as i primary hiring metric. i would say that we have not lowered our standards. >> yes or no please. >> if i could finish. it's not a yes or no question. we have not lowered our standards and the facts back that up.

liz: okay that was fbi director christopher wray down playing dei at the fbi, but this new development, why did the fbi just quietly drop? it's costly and distracting dei unit right before trump's inauguration, and why is president trump talking about a possible "corruption probe." next up former nypd paul mauro he is here to react to the details also this story. >> can you guys fighting for some illegal aliens who haven't put a dime in this country, this falls on you. liz: okay, chicago residents are outraged that far left democrat like the mayor there literally giving away their hard-earned taxpayer money, spending it on illegal migrants but now they ty their anger is intensifying over a major move by chicago democrats involving criminal illegal aliens. chicago voters say this new move cohen danger their lives. coming up, an angry chicago resident will join us to react

but first let's check in with our friends dagen and charlie hurt to see what's coming up on the bottom line. >> thank you, e-mac. we'll be talking to former acting dhs secretary chad wolf about the ticking time bomb of the biden administration's bureaucratic nightmare as well as the hearings today with kristi noem when she filleted them. dagen: and then jim desmond from san diego on the insurance nightmare that is california, and patrick murphy will try to explain all the kidney shanking going on in his party. you know what, charlie? bitter never tasted so good. top of the hour.

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corruption probe. what's the corruption here? what do you think is happening? >> yeah this is really developing into something that we didn't see coming. the trump administration has signaled that they were not going to be looking to engage in any lawfare or these sort of backwards-looking investigations, but this looks like they are quite serious about it. when you put them on notice that they better not destroy any records you don't need to be sherlock holmes to see there's an initiation of a probe. liz: but why would you say this is lawfare because he's saying the fbi shut the dei office days before his inauguration. senator marsha blackburn -- >> i'm not saying that it's not justified. just to be clear. you know what i meant by that is the fact they are going to initiate a probe. it is almost certainly justified in light of the fact that if you look at the fbi history over the last four years, we've had things like the arrival of tren

de aragua relative to the group i've seen and conspiracy cases and they turned a blind eye to that. you had jewish students on campus who couldn't get to class. we saw no federal investigations there and then we got reporting that iran, in fact, might have been funding some of the groups that were engaged in that so when you have that level of reporting, and you have christopher wray saying all the red lights are blinking relative to threats and yet we're not getting those kinds of cases -- liz: you're not getting the cases but senator marsha blackburn is questioning why the fbi focused on it in the first place saying focused on catching criminals not winning participation trophies. the senator and lawmakers led by senator blackburn did say and they warned dei dangerously distracted the fbi in that new orleans terror attack, focusing on dei and not prioritizing safety in the area when that was

an isis-inspired terror attack new years day. final word. >> very clearly, our federal law enforcement agencies and some of the local agencies have decided that law enforcement is not their first social engineering is, this is stuff that comes from the top when we had a rudderless executive and very clearly it ends but i think this drama is just beginning because i'm sure the trump administration has a good idea of what they see when they start turning "the rocks" over and it's not going to be pretty. liz: a lot of waste of taxpayer money. thank you so much paul, pleasure to see you thank you. good to see you. a new big fight is coming trump border czar tom homan again says chicago will be ground zero for deportations on day one but chicago's far left mayor is now blocking chicago police from working with i.c.e. officers to detain and arrest illegal criminal aliens. chicago red member resident

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aliens who have not put a dime in this country, that's all about you. >> the true accounting of how much money was spent on these illegals, you all have yet to be transparent with that. that is the biggest natural downfall of the city, yet there has not been any type of audit or financial accounting for illegal immigration. >> is really outrageous what chicago mayor brandon johnson and chicago democrats are doing to residents of the city. there hammering away with tax hikes, they have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal aliens to basically deal with bidens border crisis pop in chicago. illegal alien crime and chaos out of control but chicago city council blocked a proposal that would've let local chicago police cooperate with ice to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens let's talk to the chicago resident who is here with us now. chicago resident daniel carter

walters joins us. it's good to see you, what is going on another outrage in chicago. >> we are outraged, we were down at the city council meeting, the fact that brandon johnson a majority of them shot down the ordinance to at least allow ice to come in and get the gang bangers, the drug dealers, the wants that commit sexual assault on children. the fact that they block that is treason against the american citizens and chicago citizens in itself. it is crazy. : tom homan said chicago will be ground zero for deportation on day one. tell us how bad criminal illegal alien crime is in chicago. >> it's really bad. as you can see we have a lot of businesses closing in our neighborhood due to high theft

and due to high crime. when you allow 70000 to come over here and and because the crime is going to be high and just like what you seen what is happening in chicago. >> what criminal illegal alien gangs either come as a trendier raga, ms 13. >> both. >> me and my husband was driving down the street and they just taxed some buildings with latimer day aragua with two or three buildings. >> it looks like in washington,n he is a realmvp and we trust ths going to come in and do his job with the economy and to get

these illegals out of america and he is going to make america great again by putting america first and americans first. : he is talking to you guys right? >> can you tell us what else they are saying? >> we know he is hearing us we demand a forensic audit. we want to know and transparency how they spent all of the dollar. >> how chicago spent the money. that is it daniel. thank you so much. it's good to see you, thank you so much for watching "the evening edit", don't forget to dvr us. have a good weekend, dagen and charlie, take it away ♪ ♪