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the government policy of trying to so socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private light. >> [applause] >> we will forge a society that is color blind and merit-based. >> [applause] liz: it is goodbye dei. president trump's 5:00 deadline is right now. abolishing dei in the entire u.s. government. we've got new details. president trump is ordering a bigger more sweeping wipeout of dei for good out of american culture, out of american society. we've got the details tonight, cj pierceon with his reaction to that and president trump revoking the biden presidency in just three days. also tonight this story. >> what brought me putin is not

acceptable but this war has to end and i think it should be the official policy of the united states we want to see it end. there will have to be concessions made by the russian federation but also by the united states. liz: that was secretary of state marco rubio, and president trump's push to stop the u.s. sending billions of taxpayer dollars to ukraine. tonight president trump now tells russia, stop that war in ukraine or face major u.s. trade sanctions. former trump state department official christian whiton is here on the trump trexit, getting america out of biden's bad foreign policies and new details on the brave mother who begged far left governor from california gavin newsom for help in the l.a. wildfires and now she says gavin newsom lied falsely claiming he could not talk to her because he was on the phone with biden. hollywood star robert davi is here to react to who newsom was really talking to, plus president trump and his upcoming visit to l.a. and north

carolina. and this story. >> remember the 37 murders that he commuted their sentences? remember two of them, one he pardoned and one killed two fbi agents. liz: that was senator mark mullins, saying the media is ignoring biden pardoning murders and the overall number is shocking of who he pardoned plus speaker johnson says lawmakers will look into biden pardoning his family saying that was disgusting but first this. president trump right at the top of our hour, just shut down all federal government dei offices, programs, websites, social media accounts, government training and more. president trump joins a long list of u.s. companies doing that. more studies from places like rutgers shows dei escalates to vision, hostility and promotes false perceptions of prejudice in the workplace. hillary vaughn is standing by on capitol hill with the story.

reporter: good evening liz. dei is dead. president trump, through an executive order, directing all federal agencies to shut down their diversity, equity and inclusion divisions. they are also putting all dei staff on paid leave starting this evening, and they are also having all the dei websites associated with the federal government to be shut down too. >> the way president trump is doing it is going right to the source of that decline and he's getting rid of it root and branch and dei is part of it. people be shocked if they learned how much dei had been embedded in agencies. the fcc alone were spending millions and millions of dollars promoting it thanks to president trump's leadership that's ending. reporter: trump signing an executive order declaring jobs and promotions will be awarded based on hard work and results. dei staff have been notified from the office of personnel management that they are now on paid leave until further notice. the memo saying that dei programs have "divided americans

by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination." the memo also says that any effort in an agency to disguise a dei program by renaming it or integrating it into another division like hr will face consequences. liz? liz: great reporting hillary vaughn, thank you so much. let's get to this , watch. >> why you mad at him for telling the truth? the situation is republicans treat democrats the way democrats treat republicans. i respect donald trump giving his inauguration speech telling all to your face -- >> it was such an easy -- >> barack obama walked in and they boo'd. liz: he appreciated how president trump told democrats, joe biden, kamala harris, barack obama, hillary and bill clinton right to their faces at his inauguration democrats derailed and damaged america. joining us rnc youth advisory

council co-chair cj pierceon. always a pleasure to have you okay ban our show. so your reaction to this. the media is now saying president trump is doing more in four days, three days than biden did in four years to fix america. it's absolutely true and good to have a president whose coherent and knows he's indeed president. i've got four words for you, liz. promises made, promises kept. just a few weeks ago i was on your program, liz and i said it was time for dei to die, and in just a few hours president trump made it happen and god bless him for it. liz: what do you make of president trump getting rid of dei not just in government, but discriminatory bureaucrats waste tax dollars and fuels more racial hatred, divides america. he's saying democrats have corrupted the government and he wants meritocracy back but let's get to this. he wants to wipe out dei entirely out of american culture. his executive order has told

government agencies to investigate dei units at private companies and businesses, non-profits, colleges with over 1 billion bucks in endowments, trump wants to wipe it out of american culture for good and he's saying to each federal agency you've got to identify, watch this , up to nine potential civil investigations into this. >> yeah, it's long overdue and is exactly correct and exactly what we have needed from this president. it's great to see it. you know, you see many people on the left losing their mind saying president trump is waging a war on diversity but look across the federal government. no, he's waging a campaign for meritocracy as i see folks serving the department of energy, folks whose one of the most effective surrogates for president trump. he's not ridding our government of, you know, of diversity. he's simply getting rid of the people who can't carry their weight and that's exactly what we need. liz: we were talking about hr, people who run hr units at big companies. they say they do nothing all day long. one number said the government

spent 124 billion bucks on dei, when trying to confirm that number. we know the pentagon spent at least $431 million on dei. your final word on this , cj? >> if doge is looking for any area to cut they should start with this and i'm glad they are doing it. liz: great to have you on again. now to the breaking news today, in just three days, trump is getting the world to change. now, iran's supreme leader ayatollah has reportedly p prohibited the development of nuclear weapons but is this a real olive branch or just about not stopping the money from shutting off? joining us former senior advisor in the trump and bush administration christian whiton. always a pleasure to see you too again. no rational person trusts or believes iran on this. what's going on here? how do you think president trump will respond? >> well, i think he will sort of test them out. there are more things we need them to do than just to not advance their nuclear weapons

program. we need them to stop killing americans, targeting americans, stop funding wars across the middle east and try to stop trying to assassinate current and former u.s. officials, but it's interesting. the timing is extremely suspicious. clearly, they are very worried that trump will go back to his maximum pressure campaign that was applied to iran. biden took that off and you've seen the results across the middle east which is iran is at hundreds of billions of dollars more at its disposal to export terrorism and war. liz: okay so russia's putin. he's signaling a more cooperative attitude with the u.s. what do you make of president trump warning russia that the u.s. is ready to punish russia and its allies with the barrage of new trade sanctions if russia doesn't reach an agreement to end the war in ukraine? >> i think it's a good thing to do. it's a good start but it's probably not going to be effective. russia isn't panama. it isn't ukraine. it isn't canada, mexico, whose economies are highly reliant on

the united states. over the last several years russia built an economy and oil export industry apart from the united states. biden with just 10 day toss go in his administration before he left cranked up sanctions on russian energy companies. there was a brief spike in the cost of oil that's now come down with some concerns about the impact of tariffs globally. russia can go a long way. i think it's a mistake to tie the success of the trump presidency to resolving this resolution. people think it'll be over in three months and i could go on a year or two but it's at least being talked about in the right way that both sides need to make concessions or we're going to apply pressure to both sides. liz: you think we should stop sending money to ukraine? we've sent billions over there now. >> yes, i do. i think it's time to pass the baton to europe. europe has talked for decades now about having an independent force and we have bigger fish to fry. iran and china are much more serious dangers to clear vital national interest. what's going on in ukraine,

europe should be funding the bill. we could do diplomacy and trump has a role to play and this is not our front yard. liz: let's, please, get your reaction to russia's leader vladimir putin here. watch this. >> you see the statement of the newly-elected president of the united states and members of his team about the desire to restore direct contacts with russia, that were interrupted not by us, but by the outgoing administration. we also hear his statement about the need to do everything possible to prevent world war iii. we welcome this attitude. liz: okay, this , you know, ukraine zelenskyy said president trump xi-jinping are the only two people that can get putin to agree to peace. you know, show what president trump said. i'm not looking to hurt russia. i love the russian people. they helped us win the second world war and losing 60 million

lives he said in the process but he said sanctions are coming and if the war does not stop. final word. >> it's good that both sides are saying at the very senior level good things about negotiations, but russia, the key things that drove it to war, the fact that it will not accept a ukraine that it wants and demilitarized nato which is something the united states cannot accept so the root problems have not been resolved here, but it's good that you have a positive signal at the top. liz: we just want to amend a banner. iran is reported considering ending the nuclear weapons program. just as an olive branch news week reported it for trump. they aren't ending it. they are talk possibly about it . it's a report we're trying to confirm it. thank you, christian, good to see you. >> thank you. >> did he make that up? >> he was not on the phone with the president. liz: that was a california mom who desperately begged gavin

newsom for help in the l.a. wildfires, but he was not on the phone with president biden as he claimed in order to dodge her. coming up hollywood celebrity and former l.a. resident robert davi will react to who gavin newsom was really talking to plus president trump is heading to l.a. and north carolina this friday. also tonight we've got this story. >> one literally tied up a woman who had accused him of rape, tied her up and duct tape, put a cinder block around her and threw her over a bridge live. liz: senator mullin giving cnn a reality check and former president biden's pardons. we've got the stunning number of criminals including murders, child abusers, cop killer, fbi agent killers biden let out of jail. the media is attacking trump over his pardons but not enough about this and now speaker johnson says lawmakers look into biden giving preemptive pardons to his family. we've got more, also congress just passed the laken riley act

set to become one of the first bills to hit president trump's desk. florida republican congresswoman laura here is here to react plus we've got this story for you. why have gas prices gone up? could that be because of the virus itself as well? i mean, everything is tied together. >> what is the granholm plan to increase oil production in america? liz: okay, remember that? that was biden's energy secretary jennifer granholm sounding more in a church organ, but she reportedly sent billions of tax dollars in new green energy loans to her home state of michigan on the way out the door. we've got the new details. please stick with us we'll be back in two.

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the way i approach work post fatherhood, has really trying to understand the generation that we're building devices for. here in the comcast family, we're building an integrated in-home wifi solution for millions of families like my own. in the average household, there are dozens of connected devices. connectivity is a big part of my boys' lives. it brings people together in meaningful ways. >> was he on the phone to president biden or did he make that up? >> he was not on the phone with the president. the very first call on his call log was to a woman, his wife. that's all i can say. it was insanity. it was pure insanity. it's still insanity. i was standing in front of my daughter's preschool for god's sake. liz: that was a california mom, saying california governor gavin

newsom purposely dodged her desperate pleas for help at the height of the l.a. fires by claiming he was on the phone with former president biden. he was not. gavin newsom was actually on the phone with his wife. joining us now, we're very happy to welcome back actor singer and former california resident robert davi, the one and only. what's your reaction to this story? >> well thank you for having me, liz. i'm enraged still after being in california 46 years, and understanding that wildfires were a thing that we were worried about continually. even in 2009, when schwarzenegger who we don't see eye to eye with many political things with him, he was one time a good friend but he had a wildfire emergency service that bettenhouser, heading that up to clean out the fire stuff. instead of gavin newsom for the last year and a half campaigning for biden going around red states criticizing what's happening in red states, he should have gone around the country telling

californians to clean-up, we need a major thing to clean-up the brush and also the reservoirs. he should have focused on that and not this political tap dance and the joy that he gave when he said california, we're going to rebuild california 2.0. that turned my stomach. liz: a lot of people in california are outraged. they want him thrown out of office, recalled, charged with criminal negligence. we talked to people in california but now we've got extreme fire warnings moving further south into san diego. there was two brush fires at least in san diego. also riverside county so what do you make of president trump? he's going to visit north carolina and then go to l.a. he wants to rebuild both. he just signed an is to reroute water from the north down to southern california. we saw reports half to 95% of california's rainwater goes into the pacific ocean. >> pete wilson, the 1990 had a

bill, the democrats killed it. he was governor then. he wanted to build reservoirs to collect the rainwater. i think president trump should do a national referendum on that. he should meet with maybe schwarzenegger who understood the environmental issues. they should collect the rainwater and think about desally yates inization plants that in saudi arabia and other areas they have high-tech, right there, on the ocean, that malibu cost you're talking about that has 300 million, all that devastation. imagine if there was desalinization plants to use during the fire. liz: robert, you make a great point too that he was focused on doing things like fighting with florida governor ron desantis while just basically california is the fire is not over. they act like when gavin newsom has seen more fires coming down the road but we want to get your reaction to president trump and to also speaker johnson. speaker johnson says yes, tie

conditions to the aid for california. they got to be more accountable and stand up. watch this. >> we're going to be issuing an executive order demanding that they immediately let that water come down through california. farmers, even people living in beverly hills wanted to restrict you to 38 gallons of water a day. that sounds like a lot but it's not when you're a rich person and you like to take a shower, and 38 gallons doesn't last very long and they have all this water and it's really good water. up high. >> yeah, we're talking about nditionso this disaster. look, there are natural disasters but there are manmade disasters as well and they made terrible decisions, you know. they knew exactly what they were doing. that reservoir outside pacific palisades, 117 million gallons, it was empty for a year. they made decisions that made that disaster exponentially worse and this is what the american taxpayers demand of us everywhere else in

the country. liz: robert what's your take on what you just heard? >> again, something that is the frustration and the left. they don't solve problems. they create problems. when i was in california, as i said 46 years we left three-years ago, you had to have as the president said, president trump said 38 gallons. that wasn't just in beverly bevy hills, it was a lot of parts of california. you couldn't water your lawns or do irrigation because they were conserving. and i think there should be conditions. absolutely. when you have a political body as in california that basically run by the democrats, that are not really taking care of that state, that beautiful state, at one-time and have done policies in terms of crime, in terms of the environment, everything else. that has to be accountable. also the hollywood community, i have to go back at that because they are so vocal on everything liz, except this that's quiet. i still haven't heard a sound

bite from jimmy kimmel, or steven colburn, or any hollywood elites talking about gavin newsom has to be held accountable for what happened in california and until they start stepping up and saying the truth to the people of california, so they understand what the issues are, and i think there should be conditions absolutely. liz: well thank god for robert davi. he really tells it like it is. thank you so much good to see you. we have news coming in we've got more details on president trump shutting down the southern border. we've got a new report he's sending an additional 1,500 troops to the border to stop illegal aliens crossing. tom homan says this is literally killing people when you come here illegally. next, brook taylor is on the ground at the border in texas with great journalism in the update. also, we're going to break down this news, congress just passed the laken riley act headed to president trump's desk and is one of the first bills president trump signs. florida republican congresswoman

laura lee just voted for it and the congresswoman joins us next for what happened behind the scenes. please stay with us, we'll be right back after the break. >> the last 24 hours total apprehensions on the southwest border, 766. compare that to the 10-12,000 biden had at one-time. cbp releases, zero. ch and venezuela releases, zero. total of 766 across the entire southwest border. that is a game changer. when you're a small-business owner, your to-do list can be...a lot. ♪♪ super helpful. ♪♪

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there's big moves to stop dangerous smuggling in texas. fox news brooke taylor is in el paso. reporter: border patrol agents about to get much needed help. fox news learned from a u.s. official the pentagon is sending 1,500 troops to the southern border. they are going to go to different areas. meanwhile, we are in front of mount crystal ray. it is one of the most dangerous smuggling mountains, completely controlled by the cartel. they decide who and what comes across this border. border patrol agents found a massive tunnel that connects mexico to el paso earlier this month. shocking video from inside that tunnel shows just how sophisticated it is. it is six feet tall, four feet wide, hidden within a storm drain system. border patrol agents believe cartels use that tunnel to smuggle in drugs and humans, both of which have become billion dollar businesses for these cartels.

the border patrol el paso sector even has its own team called the space entry team, trained to deal with illegal entries exploiting drainage systems and tunnels. border czar tom homan says the crackdown on cartels is going to save lives. >> president trump locks this border down, less women and children will be sex trafficked in this country. legal aliens will die making their journey under president biden who had a record number of people die crossing that border, 600% increase in sex trafficking and quarter million young americans dead from fentanyl. reporter: last week i sat down with a sex trafficking victim from south america trafficked to mexico and then eventually across the border. he told us he was sold by his own family. he was beaten, threatened, trafficked six to eight times a day unfortunately, that is the harsh reality of many of these trafficking victims, elizabeth. liz: heartbreaking thank you so much brooke taylor. breaking news, congress just passed the laken riley act. it's now headed to president trump's desk. it will be one of the first

bills president trump signs into law. joining us now from house judiciary congresswoman laura lee. congresswoman a pleasure to see you again great to have you on. how important is the laken riley act to america's safety? can you tell us about it? >> it is critically important. so what this act requires is that the department of homeland detain illegal immigrants who come into this country and commit crimes, like theft, like burglary, like offenses that involve hurting or killing other people, and it sounds so obvious but the reality is that for years under the biden administration, this wasn't happening, and the consequences we see in cases like the tragic case of laken riley, we've seen the staggering statistics. the millions of people coming across our border but this bill is an important reminder this is not a crisis of numbers. it is a crisis of people, of lives of americans that have been lost he hands of these criminal aliens so your coverage

is exactly right. when we don't control our border, the mexican drug cartel will and this bill is an important step in shutting down and securing the lawlessness at our border. liz: congresswoman? we're tracking the justice department data up to 650,000 criminal illegal aliens convicted of murder, rape, sexual assault, robbery, home invasion theft have come into this country over the last 40 years. we've got breaking news. what do you make of this new washington post report that the trump justice department will prosecute state and local officials if they do not cooperate with i.c.e. deportations. now, there's also a new homeland security committee report that warns americas still faces a jihad terrorism danger, there are more than 50 cases in 30 states over the past four years, more than half of america has terrorism cases. >> well that's right and so what we know is that we're living in a very elevated threat environment right now, and one of the things that we've seen

during the biden administration was state and local officials who said they were going to refuse to enforce federal law. that they were going to be what they called sanctuary cities and here is the reality. sanctuary city is just another term for absolute defiance of federal immigration laws, so what president trump is insuring is that that happens nowhere in america. that every community is safe, regardless of whether a local official wants to defy federal immigration laws. president trump and his team are going to ensure that these laws are enforced and that these violent criminals who have come to our country are detained, they are prosecuted and they are removed, so that they don't pose a threat to any other americans. liz: i'll ask my team to show the supreme court decisions and federal law the trump presidency has already marshalled to bulletproof his crackdown to shut the border, and congresswoman, we're also going to show the growing number of nations who are taking back

deportees. the list includes venezuela, china, mexico, more countries in south america, and countries in the mid-east and in africa so what do you make of this story? >> well that's right. we need to send these folks back where they came from in many respects. the remain in mexico policy that was successful during the first trump administration is one of the things that he has already going back to and that will make a huge difference. we heard it direct from border patrol agents that just going back to remain in mexico just making sure that we're actually reviewing and checking who these folks are before they come to our country, putting an end to the abuse of the parole process, that those things alone will make a huge impact on securing the southern border. liz: congresswoman laurel lee we appreciate you so much taking your time out of your busy day to be with us tonight. it's great to see you again come back soon. okay watch this story coming up. >> great to see you too. >> one literally tied up a woman who had accused him of

rape, tied her up and duct tape, put a cinder block around her and threw her over a bridge live. liz: that was republican oklahoma senator mark wayne mullin describing to cnn the monsters president biden let out of jail. coming up attorney julian epstein will react to that and house speaker johnson also saying lawmakers will look into biden preemptively pardoning his family and watch this story coming up. >> why have gas prices gone up? could that be because of the virus itself as well? i mean, everything is tied together. >> what is the granholm plan to increase oil production in america? liz: that was biden's inadequate energy secretary jennifer granholm, be more sanctimonius than a church organ and she gifted billions of

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the way i approach work post fatherhood, has really trying to understand the generation that we're building devices for.

here in the comcast family, we're building an integrated in-home wifi solution for millions of families like my own. in the average household, there are dozens of connected devices. connectivity is a big part of my boys' lives. it brings people together in meaningful ways. >> remember the 37 murders that he commuted their sentences? remember two, one he pardoned killed two fbi agents and another one literally beat an officer to death with a hammer and another one literally tied up a woman who had accused him of rape, tied her up and duct tape, put a cinder block around her and threw her over a bridge, live, so you remember that the violence that he pardoned and i'm saying you've got to compare both of them if you'll cover the story cover

both stories. liz: that was senator mark wayne mullin explaining to cnn you need a wakeup call attacking trump over the january 6 pardons but biden gave clemency to more than three dozen vicious meremurders. let's bring in julian epstein. julian has 15 years of experience on capitol hill and the former chief counsel for house judiciary. julian let me get to the data. bid on pardoned or commuted the sentence of over 8,000 criminals more than any other modern u.s. president and newsweek is reporting this , pardoned cop killers, child abusers and the biggest, rita cromwell, and he also pardoned people who benefited well-connected democrats. what do you make of all of this? >> well i think that it was a very befoonish move on biden, and in biden's defense some were

non-violent drug offenses and some were the commutation of death sentences not a get out of jail free, but the political pardons were awful in particular the pardons of his family. not just is it a smudge on his legacy, whatever legacy is left because biden lied about the pardons of his family members. it sort of exposes the sanctimony of democratic rhetoric on rule of law but ultimately what the pardon of the family members does is it gives oxygen to the republican argument that this is where the further investigation, because what the pardon suggests, liz, is a cover-up of an influence pedaling scheme. liz: speaker johnson today says they are going to look into joe biden pardoning his family members who have been accused of cashing in on joe biden's job. listen to what speaker johnson is saying. he calls this shocking and breath taking. watch this. >> it was shocking. it was breathtaking, disgusting and proves the point,

the suspicion that they call it the biden crime family. there's a lot of attention that's paid to this and i think that is appropriate and we will be looking at it as well. liz: what can they do here? because preemptive pardons are not allowed under the u.s. constitution. the u.s. constitution doesn't allow preemptive pardons for future offenses. >> there's nothing that stops congress from doing an investigation and nothing that stops the justice department from doing investigation as to whether the pardons themselves were part of a cover-up scheme. two examples. in 2015, the state department was warning the white house about hunter biden on burisma being a major conflict of interest and impediment to policy in ukraine. in 2016 hunter biden went back to the state department according to the new york times and looked for the state department to arrange a sweetheart deal between the italians and burisma. this is all the while president biden is dining with hunter biden's business partners.

so at a minimum this is suggestive of a influence peddling scheme of which we don't know the details but of which president biden claims to be a very caring father was at the elbow of his son while he was doing this all the while he was living this high-flying lifestyle that we all know too well, so there is, what the pardon has done, liz, it has added smoke to a set of circumstances that i think the republicans have more credibility now and arguing there should be further investigation so i think this has made the situation much worse for biden. liz: yeah, maybe they will reveal the details on what really happened, because people and lawmakers have said this was the worst corruption scandal ever seen in the history of america and it's worse than watergate. let's please watch, we've got new sound coming out of president trump talking to shawn hannity moments ago on this. listen to this.

>> we had people that suffered. you peter navarro put in jail and lost their fortunes and lost their whatever their nest egg paying it to lawyers, and those people, and people said they don't even, they wouldn't have even taken, most of them people wouldn't have even taken a pardon. this guy went around giving everybody pardons and you know the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn't give himself a pardon, and if you look at it, it all had to do with him. liz: he didn't give himself a pardon the full interview with president trump will play at 9:00 p.m. eastern time on shawn hannity's show. when you hear president trump speak it sounds like house and senate republicans may start to end the trump administration, may start to crack open the books on what really happened. don't you think america deserves the truth once and for all like

a truth and reconciliation commission to get to the answers and the bottom of what really went on with president biden. >> i think there are two things that trump says are important there. one is biden didn't pardon himself which means that the door is certainly open on investigation to the extent that the pardon represents of his family members represents part of a cover-up of an influence peddling scheme and i think the door is still open. the point about navarro and bannon of course is they went to jail for defying a subpoena. at the same time hunter biden was at the white house the night before he defied a congressional subpoena for to be deposed by the oversight committee which is my old committee and instead he insisted on an in-person public hearing, which was inconsistent with what the subpoena was. so again, the whole subpoena issue

with bannon and navarro suggests a complete double standard of the democrats lawfare, so i don't think we've heard the end of this. at the same time i think trump has a lot of business on behalf of the american people that he be well-advised to get on with as well. liz: yeah, we hear you. the need to reset the in at thing it of the u.s. government. julian epstein thank you so much. >> with you 100% on that. liz: good to hear from you, thank you so much. now, we have a quick programming note. starting monday, january 27, "the big money show" is expanding to two hours, from noon to 2:00 p.m. eastern time. we are very excited to congratulate the one and only dagen mcdowell as the fourth co-host. joining taylor, brian and jackie, we can't wait to watch. now to this story. a new report biden energy secretary jennifer granholm at the 11th hour just gifted her home state of michigan, sent over billions of dollars in new green energy loans.

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secretary jennifer grandholm just sent at least $15 billion to new green energy loans to utilities in home state of michigan and walks out oturu door. bring in wor radio host mark simon. trump has a lot of work to clean up. what do you make of this? >> joe biden never got enough credit for putting together the most incompetent worst cabinet ever in history. jennifer grandholm is a good example, pure tone average pete buttigieg. if you're really concerned about climate change, grandholm got nothing done in the area and these paths are so script and supposed to believe it's a coincidence they went to donors of hers and donald trump calls it a green scheme. it's all payoffs in her defense she doesn't know about fighting climate change and he's been a attorney and bruter and no way all -- prosecutor and no way qualified to deal with this and thinking they're going to change the climate. not going to happen.

liz: grandholm defied the energy department and inspector general saying you've got to stop biden's green energy loan program and conflict of interest and sush funds and hundreds of billions and could be a lazy susan of money going out of our taxpayer money to democrat do donors. >> yeah, it's been going on for years and the trillion we've spent with the politicians and haven't made a dent or moved the needle at all. it's not about taking away freedom of choice what we can drive or appliances or if you want to do something about this, the answer is going to be in that carbon capture technology and those will come from the private sector. liz: president trump said he was going to drain the swamp and that's when nancy pelosi and democrats hammered him and ended up impeaching him twice. the report also says, as you point out, grandholm gave at least $15 billion in green

energy loans to the big campaign donors and utilities and fertilizer plant in michigan. they gave tens of thousands to the gubernatorial campaign and going for them with a big number, $15 billion. this again is about trump draining the swamp now with the energy department. he's tampering with the business model and this is what they do. going for them with all the stuff and going after her for it. going for them and pete buttigieg spent $47 billion on ev charging and where did that money go? the biden white house blew out the door $50 billion in tax dollars to climate groups. this report says it's like throwing gold bores off the titanic and sentence money after watching trump one this. is contempt for the taxpayer here. >> yeah, again, these people

aren't the least bit qualified to deal with them and it's more about giving money to donors and telling you what oven you're allowed to have and taking control and frankly just bribing their donor withs it in exchange for campaign contribution liz: what do you make of trump invoking and abolishing the biden campaign. going for press court and can't take it and used to doing nothing all day and covering a killing them. liz: mark simon, we love talking to the one and only mark simon. good to see you. i'm elizabeth macdonald. thank you for watching "the evening edit" on fox business. welcome for welcoming us into your homes. now time for the bottom line. take it away dagen and brian. david:. best of my recollections