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much welcome to the "evening edit" i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> what are we doing with all of the american taxpayer's money and why are we wasting so much of it on garbage the american people either aren't aware we're spending it on or don't want to be spending it on in the first place. i think all of us are sitting around asking what the hell have we been doing with the american people's money for the last four years. let's turn off the spigot and spend the american people's tax money on the priority and that's a big focus of the administration too. liz: that's jd vance today at cpak. we knew it was bad. we didn't think it was this bad. it's getting even bigger and it looks like it's even worse than realized. doge is uncovering way more waste. now, at the epa. also covid aid blown on things like hotel rooms at the education department. even at hud they are finding problems. the trump train is full speed ahead and the tech geniuses digging deep with historic

audits that could maybe deliver a doge dividend refund check to you, but a democrat says you know what? got that sound, senator rone've johnson and steve forbes are here to react al tonight the cleanup begins at the justice department. kash patel confirmed as fbi director but democrats are outraged planninto fight back. fox news greg jarrett is here to take on that story. plus we've got this. >> it seems like another one of those things dond trump is exaggerated or making up but -- >> safer than its ever been. aurora is an incredible city. 's one the people of colorado have never heard of. >> ve not seen anything as despicable and as mismanaged and kim ridden what we are contending in this complex. aurora seen a massive influx of migrants. this is the facts of what occurred. liz: first you heard from democrat colorado governor

misleang you, claiming that illegal alien gangs in corado everyone's imagination a this is destroyinghe election to help kamala get in the white house but aurora city police now reveal the truth. tonight we dig into that story that the media refuses to report also this stor >> there's a conflict of interest. >> potential conflicts of interest. liz: the media ripping into elon musk over allegations of conflicts of interest in the doge audit of government waste but what about democrat conflicts? like democrat stacey abrams suddenly launching a non-profit and then getting 2 billion bucks of biden's climate cash. also, should doge audit whether biden's blowout spending helped democrat campaigns like kamala harris' but first this story. we are monitoring the news that president trump may fire 6,700 new hires, new people, at the irs out of a workforce of about

83,000. this is after president biden boosted irs budgets by 80 billion over the next decade and the republicans have cut back on that. we've got the other big news. trump is talking about a nice doge dividend check, based on cutting waste. let's take you to fox news senior white house correspondent peter doocy at the white house. peter? reporter: liz, good evening. today we had a chance to talk to the president's right hand man stephen miller about how the doge dividend checks could be worth up to $5,000 per household, could work. >> these doge dividend checks that be 20% back to taxpayers, 20% to pay down the debt, 60% is left. who gets that? >> well, the way it works is when you achieve savings you can either return to the taxpayers, return it to our debtors, or it can be cycled into next year's budget and then lowers the overall baseline for next year. reporter: there's broad bipartisan agreement that wasteful programs and duplicate payments should be canceled;

however, even some republicans think this doge money needs to be focused elsewhere. >> so you sound kind of cool just sending money directly to taxpayers? >> well if there's money left after we address inflation and the debt and the deficit, it's always a good idea to send taxpayers their money back, but when we're $36 trillion in debt, we've dug ourselves a pretty deep hole so we need to address that first. reporter: these checks wouldn't be arriving any time soon. they would have to be part of a congressional budgeting process, which takes a long time. liz? liz: great reporting thank you so much now please listen to this. >> everyone emphasized to people that this is a very important point. if we don't solve the deficit, there won't be money for medical care or money for social security. we either solve the deficit oral we're doing is paying debt.

it's got to be solved or there's no medical care and no social security or nothing. its got to be solved. it's not optional. america will go bankrupt if this is not done. that's why i'm here. >> we're ending trillions of dollars in waste and it'll mean much lower inflation, lower interest rates, lower payments on mortgages, credit cards, car loans, and much higher stock markets. i think the stock markets going to be great. in other words, we will rapidly grow our economy by dramatically shrinking the federal government that we have to do it. liz: okay that's president trump and elon musk about what they are doing. >> [applause] >> we found tens of billions of dollars of fraud and waste and abuse and that's just the beginning, and elon musk has done an amazing job. i have to tell you. him and his super geniuses. these are seriously high iq people, and nobody is going to talk them out of anything. liz: okay president trump, elon musk, they are talking about

the work they are doing at doge. about how the u.s. $36 trillion debt is spiraling out of control. the pentagon, pete hegseth, is talking about reductions every year, of up to 8% in pentagon spending. he's saying there's waste there. joining us now from senate budget and senate finance wisconsin senator ron johnson. senator great to see you again thank you so much for joining us. what do you make of trump looking to lay off nearly 7,000 workers of the irs. there's that. democrats are, and the media are attacking all of this saying things like that will hurt tax refunds and doge is not finding the amount of waste that trump and elon musk are claiming. what is really happening? >> so first of all i love what elon is doing. i love what doge is doing. they are uncovering and exposing the american public, the grotesque levels of waste, fraud and abuse, but we need to turn that exposure into law. we need to turn that into spending reductions, and let me give you numbers. people in washington d.c. don't

like numbers in 2019 we spent $4.4 trillion in total. this year, we will be spending $7.3 trillion. that's a 61% increase in six years, when our population has grown by 2-point #%. now the house budget, listen i appreciate what they are trying to do. the house budget at most would take it from 7.3 down to 7.1 trillion. what i proposed is not zero based budgeting. everybody campaigns on that. we'll never achieve that but i'm proposing a pre-pandemic level of spending. i've given four options. go back to 1998, you inflate it by population growth, inflation this used social security, medicare and interest, you'd be spending $5.5 trillion off that clinton budget. obama's budget from 2014, 6.2 trillion. trump's 2019 is 6.5 trillion and what we're using the senate budget is trump's own budget from 2025 with today's social

security medicare and interest that's 6 trillion, a massive difference from where the house is right now. that's got to be our target. we need to turn what doge's identifying into real spending reductions. we need to actually reduce the deficit, if not balance the budget before we start paying out dividend checks. liz: yeah, so what you're saying is basically that lawmakers including especially democrats want to keep in the law wartime spending that we saw in the pandemic. the pandemic we saw spending without the war. is that what's going on? >> yeah, no family if they had a sick family member had to borrow $50,000 to pay for medical expenses. if that family member got well they wouldn't keep borrowing $50,000 and keep spending that level. that's exactly what we did, spent 4.4 trillion in 2019 and 6.5 trillion and we never really decreased that. we've averaged 6.5 trillion for five years and now we're up

to 7.3 trillion. liz: the american people have been getting hammered and they see half their paychecks going to taxes and they don't like the fact their moneys been blown out the back door in d.c. they are struggling with inflation for the past four years under biden so they do want to see bigger refund checks. let's get your reaction. >> elizabeth, what is really in their purchasing power is inflation. liz: i know, i get it. we understand that. but i want your reaction to democrat congresswoman jasmine crockett saying she doesn't know why people think they need $5,000 in doge dividend checks. she's downplaying what people need. listen to this. let's get your reaction. >> so no. we are not in the business of giving out money and honestly i don't know what $5,000 will do for you. liz: she says we're not in the business of giving out money when doge is finding, yes, looks like the federal government is very much in the business of giving out money?

>> we have to stop printing dollars. that means start reducing the deficit and the fact of the matter is inflation is the worst invisible tax is highly regressive. it hurts everybody particularly the poor, so let's get our deficit under control and balance the budget is the best thing we can do. liz: senator ron johnson, the chicago fed researchers, san francisco fed researchers agree with you that government overspending is inflationary. listen to this. >> it's very exciting. it's hard to believe we've only been in office for a month, because i think we've done more in a month than biden did in about four years. thank god for that. >> [applause] >> the second thing, mercedes scmermercedes is we've got to sp spending money on garbage. every dollar we take in and spend, you have to pay for , either through taxes or through inflation and if we spend the american people's money more wisely, if we stop taxing and

spending the american people to death, that's also going to bring relief to all of the pricing pressures that are out there. we're going to make it affordable to live in this country again. that's our mandate. that's our goal and you're right. there's a lot more we could do but i think we've got a good start after 30 days. liz: vice president j.d. vance and getting cheered and applause on doge's audits and trump's audits but we've got this new controversy blowing up at the education department. doge found schools have spent nearly 200, look at this money, it's 200 billion bucks, really? of taxpayer funds, for covid relief. little impact on students there. actually $200 million, with a lower case m. let's fix that and bring in media chair steve forbes and go through it. they spent nearly 400,000, good to see you, education department officials spent nearly 400 grand to rent out a major league baseball stadium, $86,000 on hotel rooms at caesar's palace,

sorry, doge is saying it's actually 200 billion bucks, i can't believe this , with a b, upper case, as in boy. $60,000 on swimming pool passes, and taxpayer money on an ice cream truck? i mean, we're sorry to confuse the viewer about the numbers. it's so disturbing and shocking, steve. it's $200 billion. is this why america is so far behind in educating our children and rand weingarten is fighting against audits? >> well the school system as you know is one reason why you see a rise in choice efforts around the country. education savings accounts and number of states putting the money in the hands of parents who want a real education for their kids. covid exposed how poorly our kids were being taught in the schools, even supposedly good schools in the suburbs. so you're seeing a reaction, and what the doge is exposing is a government that doesn't care how

the money is spent because it's not there's. the private sector in a business, you want to account for every dollar because if you don't you'll go out of business. government doesn't go out of business, so they spend it and there's been no culture of accountability of keeping track of where the money actually goes. i think this is the beginning of that. he's also making the case every day of why we have to shrink the government including the education department. you could shut it down, take the money, send it to the states, and have accountability there and save tens of billions of dollars and you'll see that in another departments as well. this starts to really add up as they say to real money after a while, and the only thing i would continue in the education budget was the ice cream truck. i do like ice cream but other than that you can get rid of all that stuff. liz: we'll spend our doge dividend checks on an ice cream cone for you, steve, thank you. they also canceled nearly $300 million more in dei spending at the education department. we would like to please get your

reaction, steve, to the housing and urban development director saying doge also found hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer savings wasted at hud. listen to this. >> we have found, as you said, $260 million in savings here at hud working with our doge task force but today, we're announcing that we cut $4 million in dei contracts here at hud, which were supposed to be for culture transformation and outward mindset thinking of subscription services so we want to announced to, we're working hard and we will cut $4 million in dei-focused contracts. liz: steve, let's back up. is it running a budget like you said a basic thing for every household & company in america? wouldn't all that money be better spent on raises for teachers, cops, firemen, first responders, people in the health industry? how about giving them raises but they are suing trump in court to

stop his agenda. isn't he allowed to run the government the way he sees fit and the voters want him to? >> that's a big supreme court case is coming up the real powers of the president to run the executive branch which means running personnel and hire and fire and that's going to happen and the departments like hud, they don't even know where the rent money really goes they give out for these section 8 apartments and the like and so you're going to see changes there and this whole thing that you're going against the poor by cutting budgets, no you're helping the poor because you have a better economy and better opportunity for people to get ahead. that's the long-term dividend of what elon musk and his muskevites are doing. liz: yeah, didn't jfk say the best type of welfare is a job? >> jfk is right but the party today is not the party of the 1960s where he cut taxes, and believes in a strong national defense. how about that? liz: steve forbes you're terrific thank you so much.

pleasure to see you again now listen to this. >> trump firing probationary workers and musk infiltrating even more of our personal data to sell-off if he chooses, now is the time to know what's going on. liz: okay, why is democrat stacey abrams protesting so much about doge and trump digging into government books? is it because epa chief lee zeldin and reporters found a non-profit linked to stacey abrams that got 2 billion bucks from biden's climate cash, we've got the details coming up plus should trump and doge audit where the bid epidemic's climate spending ended up funding democrat campaign ads like for kamala harris. plus the ceo of delta pushing back on the media trying to pin the toronto plane crash on trump's faa reforms with the sound in this story too for you tonight. >> what seems like another one of those things that donald trump is either exaggerated or making up but city of aurora is

great. >> safer than its ever been. >> it's one the people of colorado never heard about. >> the amount of terror and the amount of impact and mismanagement, the amount of care, the amount of concern was extremely evident. we have turned the corner on that crime and turned that corner on that mismanagement and we have definitely turned the corner on the victimization of the people who came here for a better life and ended up living in a place like this. liz: democrat colorado governor is now getting called out for blatantly and falsely misleading america during the election. the city of aurora, colorado never had an illegal alien gang problem, but aurora police now revealing the truth coming up we'll show you what the media will not report but first this. we've got trump nominee kash patel confirmed as fbi director today. democrats angry about that. fox news analyst greg jarrett on that, and another trump nominee

confirmed and why democrats are ready to fight back. we've got more for you back in two. stay right there. >> hundred thousand drug overdoses, hundred thousand rapes, 17,000 homicides. that's only 70% of the precincts are reporting in. that is violent crime exploding out of control. i'm going to let good cops be cops and 40% of americans have trust and faith in the fbi. it is a failure in leadership to get to that point that did not happen over time.

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liz: welcome back. we like to get you updated on this story, the apartment complex in aurora, colorado, where residents spoke out that it was taken over by illegal alien gang members from the violent venezuelan tren de aragua prison gang. colorado residents were terrorized by them and crime but there's more to the story. fox news alicia acuna has more. reporter: the aurora police chief says they have finally turned a corner, with this complex, and the tren de aragua gang activity that has terrorized the people who live there. aurora pd allowed media cameras inside the edge at lowry apartments before boarding it up to see what

families were living in. apartments with no electricity or running water and infested with roaches, units meant for four people packed with up to 17. the world got its first glimpse into the now in fam am us complex after a ring camera captured this group of members forcing their way around at least one of the suspects was also arrested for a particularly violent kidnapping of a couple who lived there in december. police say the victims were held and tortured for hours. many of the suspects have connections or are known members of tda, according to authorities. the chief blamed tda's take over of some complexes for the crime but also the apartment owner. these buildings became a hub for drug and sex trafficking, home invasions and shootings. the chief also called out pro-immigration activists who tried to convince residents not to move out. that caused the moral panic that unfortunately many of the people already confused got even more confused by this so-called

interventionist, or activists who came on the betterment of the people who lived here which was a complete fallacy and falsehood. i never saw one protest or i never saw one gathering demanding the justice for the people that lived here. reporter: the chief also said that the city paid about $94,000 to safely relocate some of these residents. liz? liz: wow what a story thank you so much. that was terrific. thank you. now listen to this. >> today we just had kash patel approved. >> [applause] liz: the crowd cheering, as president trump announces kash patel has been confirmed as fbi director by the send at. it was the biggest fight in d.c. today. democrat senators fought against confirming kash patel as fbi director. it was a narrow 51-49 vote. senators mitch mcconnell voted yes, but moderate gop senators lisa murkowski, susan collins voted no. let's bring in fox news legal

analyst author of the terrific book, the constitution of the united states and other patriotic documents greg jarrett. greg, it's great to see you again thanks so much for helping us out here. what do you make of the democrat pushback against patel? democrat senator blumenthal says republicans will rule the day they confirm patel. they say he's unsuited for the job and helps trump target enemies. what do you think? >> well that's pretty good evidence that patel is the right person for the job and look. i've known kash for several years since he was a top lawyer for the house intel committee. if you want somebody to carry out the president's stated policies, liz, to clean-up the corrosive corruption of the fbi, the weaponization of the law, nobody better than kash patel. he is smart. he's highly competent, and these silly complaints about him are all wrong, that he lacks law enforcement experience. my goodness. he was both a government prosecutor and a government

defense attorney. he knows law enforcement, and democrats also claim well, he's not going to be independent. well that so-called independence is what led fbi leadership to go rogue and abuse their powers. patel seems determined to stop the abuse, hold accountable those who have broken the law, and violated civil rights in the process and i hope he looks into it carefully. liz: it's interesting, greg. the fbi agents association also a group of former fbi agents support kash patel. senator chuck grassley says he's going to clean out the politics at the fbi that it was weaponized to go after republicans. democrat enemies and rivals. they pursued republicans here like trump. talk to us about that. >> well job one is to get rid of the senior leadership. holdovers which, you know, is a top priority. these are bad characters, and i

had to laugh when i was watching the pre-vote press conference by senate democrats that was quite frankly pathetic. the usual suspects led by adam schiff who by the way was censored by the house for lying about the russia hoax, who did his best to justify fbi abuse, so their opposition to kash patel is evidence that he is exactly the person to fix a broken bureau, but i hope he will purge the fbi of the scoundrels that inhabit the hoover building along with restoring integrity and respect for the rule of law. no more partisan witchhunt that were persuasive during rain of james comer and christopher wray. that's why so many former agents now are praising and cheering on kash patel because they are

disgusted with the fbi. liz: what about this idea. how about putting the fbi headquarters into new york city? >> [laughter] well, they ought to open a pretty big bureau, because new york city needs a lot of help witness all of the people who have fled there, because the crime and corruption and homelessness and illegals housed in a luxury hotel, the roosevelt hotel. liz: greg jarrett thank you so much. listen and read. now listen to this. >> today we face a nation where our protections are being stripped away, by those who are intent on seizing total control. liz: that was democrat stacey abrams protesting hard against trump and doge auditing government corruption, fraud, and abuse. why is she protesting so loudly? because $2 billion of biden's climate spending went to a

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liz: welcome back. we've got more news coming in. democrat illinois governor ms.jb pritzker is getting slammed for rhetoric going after trump. fox news mike tobin is in reporter: liz the democrat illinois governor and obably top critic of president trump was supposed to give a speech on the state budget. illinois replicans, however say it ended up a speech about generating attention and earning governor jb pritzker a spotlight

when democrats begin to choose a capped it data centers for the next election. the illinois democrat first said as a jew he did not invoke nazis lightly and made multiple references comparing the rise of nazis to what republicans and donald trump are doing now. germans were angry about inflation and found someone to blame. he suggested people need to learn from history and said he was watching what is happening in the country. >> it took the nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours, and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. all i'm saying is th when the five alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control. reporter: republicans are the minority in illinois. some members of the republican caucus got up and left during the speech. othe said it was appalling to hear everyday americans concerned about the border comped to nazis. some republicans called the speech ridiculous especially in light of the fact that illino is looking at

an increasingly bleak financial picture, and the governor used the time to gain national attention. later when pressed by reporters pritzker claimed he did not directly call president trump a nazi. liz back to you. liz: thank you so much. now please listen to this. >> i don't care if you love congestion pricing, or hate it. this ian attack on our sovereign identity, our independence, from washington. we knew this could come. filed a lawsuit within minutes. i also want to say the cameras are staying on. we're keeping the cameras on. liz: okay, democrats really do want to tax you more. that was new york governor hochul. she says she's going to sue the trump white house for getting rid of and wiping out new york city's congestion pricing program, blue collar workers hate it. everyone hates it. it's attacks, joining us joe concha. how are they going to win the mid-terms with stuff like this? governor hochul is planting a flag on her congestion tax that

everybody hates here in new york? >> well i was alive in 1984, liz and i remember when walter mondale ran on raising taxes against ronald reagan and that earned him one out of 50 states in terms of winning that election. talking about this stuff and defending higher taxes on people already taxed so high is just incredible and more people are leaving new york state in terms of percentage of population, liz, than any other state in the country. new jersey where i live is a close second, and the reason for it is taxpayers are simply not seeing return on investment that should come from being in the most highly-taxed states in the country. all this money coming out of our paychecks, federal level, state level, and yet i could tell you from decades of experience, the commute from new jersey to new york only gets worse, tolls keep going up, and now a tax on top of a tax which is congestion pricing. there's a reason why so many people are moving out of the states around here and going to florida, tennessee and texas

and the reason number one is income tax, reason number two they feel their leaders are not spending their money wisely. liz: joe, again my family will kill me but my family, parts we've been here in new york city since 1860. we've come from a long line of democrats. the guilded age democrats fighting for labor unions. they have never seen anything like this. new york got slammed during the pandemic shutdowns. they got hammered by high crime and they got hammered by illegal alien crisis and crimes that the biden white house unleashed on cities like new york, but for kathy hochul to claim that she's protecting new york city sovereignty and about raising taxes? that's what she wants? didn't the american revolution start because of high taxation without representation? i mean, she's also trying to unilaterally remove an elected official, democrat mayor eric adams. >> no taxation without representation, yeah. remove eric adams and install a

candidate. that sounds like something the democratic party would never do. oh, that's right they put kamala harris in as the democratic nominee so if they do this again no surprise there whatsoever. i'll leave it here. liz: i never seen a democrat party so out of touch, so wildly insanely and people, maybe the viewer thinks some people think i'm ranting. i'm not. i just cannot believe the collapse on the total erosion and the breakdown of the democrat party. never seen anything like it. final word. >> no. democratic party according to quinnipiac has never been this unpopular in their polling history. there's a reason for it. they don't have a message and right now they don't have a leader and that's why we're seeing all these silos of raise taxes, oh, boy i don't think so. liz: corruption, government waste. open the borders. joe concha, you're great thank you so much. >> thanks liz.

>> a very real conflict of interest. >> the conflict of interest of someone like elon musk. >> whose overseeing peloton conflicts of interest. liz: yeah, right the media is concerned about conflicts of interest, so they're pretty much silent about this. listen. >> a legal if not illegal actions taken by the secretary of state marco rubio and by president trump and his shadow puppet president elon musk. liz: okay stacey abrams, she's really fighting a full accounting by doge of government waste. we've got a new report, 2 billion bucks in biden's climate cash spending went to a non-profit linked to stacey abrams. also coming up, we've got this. the ceo of delta calling out the media like cbs's gayle king pushing the idea that trump's faa reforms caused recent plane crashes. radio host mark simone is here to react but first let's check in with dagen and guy benson to see what they have coming up

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liz: the news that epa chief lee zeldin doge found biden and democrats setup a honey pot of 20 billion bucks at city bank and gave $2 billion in taxpayer money to a non-profit run by stacey abrams. let's get to the person breaking the news on this , investigative journalist thomas katanachi. you've been leading the charge. what's going on and the timeline? >> well thank you for having me, liz. the timeline really starts in 2022 with the inflation reduction act. the ira was passed as you know in august 2022. now, the ira created a program essentially what it was is a green bank. it's called the greenhouse gas

reduction fund, and this is something that activists have wanted to create for years and years and years and finally in the ira they created it and it's a $27 billion pot of money to for the federal government to basically funnel to non-profits who then act as an independent agency in and of themselves to then distribute the money to causes that they see fit. now, of course experts and republicans had said this is going to attract fraud. liz: but then so stacey abrams non-profit power for communities got $2 billion when she only had $100 in revenue in that non-profit? she launched in late 2023 and then flipped and within months got nearly 2 billion bucks? should doge audit whether any green money went to finance campaigns like kamala harris'? >> i think that's a great question, and to your point, fast forward a couple of years. the money did find its way to

this stacey abrams and one of its partners is the american federation of teachers and who runs the american federation of teachers? it's randi weingarten as you know and she and abrams together sit on the board of a group called climate power and climate power is one of the largest donors through advertising of the kamala harris campaign, so you can kind of track the money the way that it potentially can trickle down to support campaigns, but no doubt when you look at the partners, when you look at the groups that are benefiting, they are almost always democrat aligned. they are almost always pushing progressive causes and are funded by some of the most prolific progressive funders. liz: thomas you're digging keep digging we'll have you back on sorry we ran out of time but we're staying on the story. listen to this. >> the trump administration recently fired many employees of

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>> the cuts do not affect us, i have been in close comm take with secretary of transportation, i understand cuts at this time are something that are raising questions. but there is over 50 thousand people, that work at faa, and cuts i understand were 300 people, they were in noncritical safety functions. the trump administration has committed to investing deeply in terms of improving the overall technologies that oar used in air traffic control system and modernizing the skies, committed to hiring additional controllers and investigators, and safety investigators, so i'm not concerned. >> ceo of delta pushing back on cbs' gayle king, she was asking if president trump's reforms are behind the crashes. what do you make of what you just heard. from the ceo of delta. >> i didn't realize it was

so little 300 people out of 50 thousand is half of a percent, when musk took over twitter he cut 40% of the staff, they said the site would crash, it worked better, i think the same thing will happen at faa. a week ago they were telling us it dangerous he has our financial data, he owned paypal, he has had already financial data for years there, is nothing to worry about. elizabeth: he said he never accessed that and sean duffy telling cbs they are hiring more traffic controllers. >> we have been 3 thousand short. the reagan airport disaster, you had just one controller you need three. people that are fired have nothing to do with safety. airlines know. elizabeth: delta ceo said nothing to do with it senator chuck schumer, doubling down blaming president trump for the

crash in toronto. >> faa is a good example. just weeks after the deadliest plane crash in a long time, just as we see more incidents president trump has fired hundreds of faa workers. including air safety personnel. firing people whose very job it is to keep air travel safe is nothing short of reckless. >> i think jon stewart is right, democrats you have to hide chuck schumer, he is the worst spokesman he never knows what he is talking about, he lookings awkward and annoying. elizabeth: there has already been a air traffic controller shortage, which predates trump, trump has been trying to fix it, they are not touching safety experts at faa, they are

probationary new hires that came on within a year, they are right sizing the ship to make you know air travel more safe. is that what you hear? >> yes, and you know, this is first president in history who owned an airline, he owned trump shuttle. he knows a lot about airlines and air traffic and safety, the mechanics. first president. elizabeth: all right mark simone, always a pleasure, we'll have you back on soon. >> thank you. elizabeth: i'm elizabeth macdonald thank you for watching "the evening edit" on fox business, dvr us. now time for "the bottom line" right over to dagen and guy, they have a hot show. they are fired up. dagen: thank you so much imac. elizabeth: you got it. guy: thank you. dagen: good g