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macdonald all the chances in the world. there she is. liz: you're darn tooting, larry. we've got a hot show. that was an exciting show i'm out of breath watching it larry thank you so much welcome to the "evening edit" i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> 65% of the budget should be cut. what would that mean pract practically? >> well it would mean that the agency would sincerely be handcuffed. liz: okay that's biden's epa head claiming doge and trump are the end of civilization, but she's not talking how the trump team found literally billions of your tax dollars, wasted on biden's climate slush funds and now she's begging doge and elon musk don't dig in. tonight trump epa chief lee zeldin is here on what he is finding and major corruption that happened under biden and the epa. also tonight, this. >> mr. musk has just been here 22 years, and he's a citizen of three countries. i always ask myself

the question, with the damage he's doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is he loyal to? >> he can take a nap and let this foreign agent, you know, an enemy of the united states, do his job. liz: whoa now democrats reveal their anti-trump anti-elon musk playbook that they are anti-immigrant. attacking elon musk for being a foreigner? seriously? coming up, charlie hurt will take it on, plus what we found doge. they just uncovered massive abuses and biden's border spending we've got more on that and also the update on u.s. attorney general pam bondi releasing phase i of the jeffrey epstein files. we've got the details, this story is rocking d.c. plus, trump's nominee to be ambassador to israel, look whose here. former governor mike huckabee we're excited to talk to the governor. he's going to take on biden's slush fund spending in ukraine. that had nothing zero, to do with humanitarian aid.

also, this news tonight. >> i co-chaired, countered china in our agency group, oversaw containment of two ebola outbreaks and led the bureau for humanitarian assistance, but usaid's obsession with identity politics, gender fluidity, population control, and climate undermine these goals. liz: this is what the media is not covering, a former top usaid official, also a middle east expert testifies that just a generation after 9/11, biden's usaid end up sending literally tens of millions of your dollars to terrorists in the middle east. why? the biden white house stopped the vetting for that. why do they do that? former u.s. army special forces jim hanson will take it on but first, this story. >> the democrat-run usaid should not get to use our

federal government. our u.s. taxpayer dollars, as their party piggy bank to push the radical agenda in countries that we have no business giving money to. maybe we should consider investigating whether usaid funding has made it back to democrat campaigns. has it affected elections? >> we are fighting for you. we are in the courts. we are in congress. we are in our communities and we will hold this administration accountable, and we will not abandon our allies or our humanity. so with that, i say to all of you, be strong. we will fight back. >> [applause] >> i now recognize myself for closing remarks. i now recognize myself for closing remarks and threats against the president of the united states will not be tolerated by anyone. liz: that was congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. the chair of the house oversight

subcommittee on doge, firing it up. they are saying republicans are saying they are not abandoning any humanitarian aid. they are just stopping waste and fraud. now, the congresswoman is saying she's going to make criminal referrals over what they are finding. the trump team is reportedly also cutting $60 billion in waste and abuse in u.s. foreign aid. again nothing to do with humanitarian help. chief justice roberts temporarily blocked the judge appointed by joe biden trying to force the trump white house to pay $2 billion of foreign aid. joining us epa administrator lee zeldin. administrator, it's wonderful to see you again. we appreciate you coming on. what's your take on this shocking amount of waste in the government? let's show the details what they are finding that doge is finding what happened in foreign aid. what are you finding at the epa? we've reported on the $20 billion you found in biden's climate funds, slush funds parked at citibank. what more do we know?

>> well, with regards to the $20 billion that were parked towards the end of the biden administration at this outside bank, they created an arrangement that tied epa's hands behind its back between the financial aid agreement with treasury, whether it was the account control agreement with the epa, and all $20 billion were heading to just eight primary recipients so these ngo's in one case, stacey abrams that was brand new, received $100 in 2023, received $2 billion in 2024. another ngo that had an employee leave to become the director of this drone house gas reduction fund ended up throwing $5 billion to their former employer. we're finding a lot of self-dealing conflicts of interest. we're seeing that people were unprepared to spend these sums of money, and just to give you one specific example of

highlighting just how unprepared they were. in reading through the grant agreements, it gives them 90 days to take a training called "how to develop a budget. if they don't know how to develop a budget yet why are they getting all this money? it was 20 billion that were all pass-throughs giving to other entities many of them pass-throughs as well and reduced oversight as that money was getting down to the final grantee. i have a problem with all of it and every time we overturn a new rock we find more trouble. liz: sir, here is the problem americans are having. the infrastructure that biden did build for climate spending and for border spending was any of that money ending up in campaign donations to keep democrats in power? >> well, i mean, listen. there were entities that this funding was going to, we're people who were part of leading that entity were also democratic donors. that for certain, but what we're

seeing, to this point, is that the money that they secured was, it was part of this message of fighting environmental justice, maybe an argument that some communities left behind, they have an environmental issue that we need to deal with which is something that you could make an argument in a way all of us would agree with, but in the name of environmental justice, they want to send tens of millions of dollars to left wing advocacy groups. for example, i canceled a $50 million grant to the climate justice alliance. climate justice alliance, they say that climate justice goes through gaza. it goes through a free pal it's even. that's not the way americans want their tax dollars, working with doge, i canceled about 30 grants, totaling $120 million on top of everything else that we discussed, and also, i would add the media subscriptions have been pretty wild. i canceled over $1 million worth of media subscriptions to less than a handful of outlets.

that's also been a big source of waste too. liz: it's interesting. now, you are working to cut epa spending by about two-thirds because you're finding waste. let's please get your reaction to what biden's epa chief, gina mccarthy has said. please watch this. >> 65% of the budget should be cut. what would that mean pract practically? >> well, it would mean that the agency would sincerely be handcuffed. the agency itself right now is staffed by very capable people. we don't want to lose that staff, but honestly, this is all about how we protect our health and our safety. how we protect our natural resources. >> if were to speak with administrator zeldin, where should he focus those efforts to make things more efficient. >> reach out. sit down with the program staff at epa. look at opportunities to down scale. where those efforts are not as important as others. i'm not suggesting that epa is

perfect. every step of the way, that's what epa does to save as much money as they can, but to get the job done well, in quickly, and safely. liz: response to what gina mccarthy said today. she's kind of admitting there are problems. >> right. so basically we should keep doing what we're doing. so, epa received tens of billions of dollars in 2024. i want to spend tens of billions of less dollars in 2025. my message to congress is don't even send us all of those tens of billions of extra dollars. i internally want to make sure we're finding efficiencies as it relates to our travel, real estate footprint, grants, contracts, and we're also going to be saving money with regards to staff. we had hundreds of people take president trump's fork in the road, voluntary early retirement, there were probationary employees terminated as well.

others resigned, retired. we're going to continue pursuing those efficiencies. liz: lee zeldin, thank you for joining us. appreciate you. now listen to this , please. >> mr. musk has just been here 22 years, and he's a citizen of three countries. i always ask myself the question with the damage he's doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is he loyal to, south africa? canada? or the united states? and he's only been a citizen, i'll say again, 22 years. >> he allegedly overstayed that visa. >> this is just perfectly wonderful for trump. he can take a nap and let this foreigner, foreign agent, you know, an enemy of the united states do his job. liz: really? that's the democrats new plan? to go up against elon musk, doge, and president trump? you just heard democrat representative, the view joy

behar attacking elon musk for being an immigrant. we've got the perfect guest a very smart, brilliant columnist and author, and he's one of our favorites let's welcome fox & friends weekend co-host charlie hurt. charlie, what do you make of that? >> that's insane. i mean, the idea the democrat's new strategy is to go after immigrants and accuse them of being foreign agents? are you kidding me? this is bonkers. if a republican had done this , talking about somebody else, somebody on their side, they would have lost their freaking minds, but you know, if that's their strategy, have fun with it. i don't think it's going to work out well for them, but i do think that it sort of underscores the complete lack of strategy they have for dealing with any of the things that the trump administration is dealing with right now because the trump administration is actually going around. there might be some sort of uncomfortable parts of it and might be pain involved, but they are addressing real problems

that people care about. liz: let's talk about that. >> addressing them with serious solutions. liz: let's talk about what the view and democrats refuse to talk about, that doge is finding massive corruption, taxpayer abuse. look at this. a non-profit called family endeavors got a huge $18 million a month in taxpayer money, just to run an empty building in texas for illegal aliens. the biden white house gave that non-profit a mass massive $530 million and a contract just months after a top biden aid joined that ngo , charlie and the top executives there, that make at least 500,000 or $600,000 a year. >> you know, liz, i think that it's important for people to remember that one of the most important montras of the democrat party is you never let a crisis go to waste, and what that means for democrats is if you have a crisis, they can take more of your money and give it to their friends.

that's how they view a crisis, and your wonderful interview a second ago with lee zeldin underscores that with the environment. that's why they love climate. the climate emergency because it's a crisis that they won't let go to waste. they can take all of your money and give it to all of their friends. what we're finding out now is that the illegal immigration, the invasion of the border crisis that joe biden invited into our country, was another one of these crisis in which they use that as a pre-text to take more of your money and give it to their friends. liz: and you wonder if it's ended up in democrat donations to keep them in power. charlie hurt, you're terrific thank you so much. >> you know that it did. liz: we're staying on the story. we've got breaking news, another win for president trump on his tariffs. fox news reporting mexico has begun the process of extraditing to the u.s. more than two dozen high-level cartel leaders and members back to america.

this includes the leader of the guatemala cartel who was involved in the kidnapping and murder of dea agent in 1985, as well as the founders of los zetas, the extraditions were done as trump's tariff deadline looms and trump demanded the crackdown that mexico crackdown on this and now, they are doing it. breaking news there. now to this story. >> it's going to be litigated. i'll pause whenever you want and you can go and yell all you want but i can't understand 10 people let alone 100 people at once. liz: okay, this story. the media claims there suddenly is spontaneous grassroots revolt against president trump and doge and elon musk. speaker mike johnson says wait a second. it's actually orchestrated and paid for by far left groups. joe concha is going to react and take it on, plus as democrats tout the so-called doge rebellion across america,

one big blue city is going doge and embracing doge. we've got the details. also this story tonight. >> i think what we saw was usaid weaponized by the biden administration and by attacking any party that was conservative. it just didn't happen in brazil at all so happened for instance very pro-america in hungary as well. liz: it's a big deal. that is a former top usaid official. the former acting chief operating officer revealing that usaid officials under biden attacked republicans overseas funded by your money. we've got more details on usaid under biden spent at least 122 million bucks that ended up falling into the hands of terrorists in the middle east, just a generation after 9/11. former u.s. army special forces jim hanson will take it on but first this story. >> is anybody unhappy

with elon? if you are well throw them out of here. >> [laughter] >> is anybody unhappy? >> [applause] >> i have a lot of respect for elon and that he's doing this and some disagree a little bit but i will tell you for the most part i think everyone's not only happy they are thrilled. liz: thrilled with elon musk. doge is finding 150,000 of your money, went to a women's retail company in ukraine. why? 120,000 went to a fashion photographer. 300,000 to ukraine retailer who makes dog collars? that's not humanitarian stuff. governor mike huckabee, the nominee to be ambassador to israel, he's going to react to what's now being called biden's ukraine slush fund spending, also breaking details on u.s. attorney general pam bondi just releasing phase i of the epstein files coming up. we've got the details. please stick with us we're back in two. >> a lot of flight logs, a lot of names and information, but

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financeeer and sex offender jeffrey epstein. let's get to the news fox news griff jenkins is standing by live in d.c. with the latest. griff? reporter: liz, good evening, and doge sources tell fox that this phase i epstein documents will be released publicly sometime today, approved attorney general pam bondi. they are largely been seen before today, liz, but they are intended to be a show of transparency and the justice department has just released a letter from bondi to fbi director kash patel claiming the fbi's new york field office has been withholding thousands of page of document related to the epstein investigation. now this as some members of congress are up in arms. congresswoman who heads up the house oversight committee's task force on secret document releases posted to x saying this. i, nor the task force, were given the epstein documents being released today. this is not what we or the american people asked for ,

in a complete disappointment. earlier today our white house stakeout camera capturing what appears to be conservative influencers exiting the west wing holding up binders that read "epstein files" and it follows bondi telling fox news there are more than 250 victims whose identities must be protected. >> what you're going to see hopefully tomorrow is a lot of flight logs, a lot of names, a lot of information, but it's pretty sick what that man did. reporter: you'll recall, liz, last month president trump signed an executive order directing agencies to release secret documents pertaining to epstein as well as jfk and mlk so we wait to see what drops publicly will go through as doj sources say another should come in a matter of weeks. liz: congresswoman luna was

talking about jeffrey epstein's phone book. reporter: it seems based on following the reporting of these conservative influencers who are posting on social media, liz, that this is largely a combination of flight logs and a rolodex of people that epstein knew without any real context, but again, much of this has already been out there publicly, going all the way back to january of last year, when it was released by a judge in a defamation lawsuit against maxwell. liz: this is rocking d.c. thank you, griff jenkins. now to this. the trump white house is pulling back $60 billion of taxpayer funded foreign aid, that the biden state department and usaid was spending, they say that this was not headed for humanitarian or charitable aid. it was a lot of waste, fraud and corrupt abuse of u.s. taxpayers. for more we're excited and honored to welcome back to the show former arkansas governor president trump's nominee

ambassador to israel, governor mike huckabee. great to see you. what do you make of this? because we hear democrats say that this is the end of civilization, but it's not humanitarian aid that is getting cut, right? it's about funding for a left wing ideology and even anti-israel groups linked to terrorism. >> it's that and it's more. a lot of it is just disgusting. i've been going through this , this afternoon. some of it is broken down into four categories. fashion. we spent hundreds of thousands of dollars sending people in ukraine to fashion shows in the u.s. i don't know what that has to do with humanitarian efforts. in addition to fashion, we did food. 25 $5,000, to study organic tea and purchase it. $144,000 for pickles in ukraine, and then, there was also furniture. $119,000 on furniture display,

so to make sure while in ukraine while they are fighting for their lives supposedly, we update their furniture needs and finally, fido, yes, $300,000 of american taxpayer money not to help ukraine and their war effort, but to purchase and manufacture dog collars. so, fashion, food, fido, and furniture. that's where a lot of american taxpayer money has gone in ukraine. it's disgusting, liz, and i don't understand why democrats want to defend this. liz: governor, that's the thing. why are they planting a flag on this? they are getting democrats and viewers all trying to rile him up that trump is the end of civilization and destroying america. this is just garden variety corruption and abuse of taxpayers that have been going on, its been going on for generations keeping everybody's taxes high and that u.s. debt spiraling out of control. i mean, this isn't just, you know, like trump's a dictator.

no. he's just trying to stop abuse of taxpayers, full stop. >> you know, i think that maybe it's a good thing tomorrow when a lot of hard working americans get their weekend paycheck that they take a look at it and ask, how much of this would i like to see go to ukraine so that we can buy dog collars and organic tea. we need to ask samantha power who run usaid just what the heck were you thinking with this slush fund that usaid was, where there's good programs? of course there were, but we should have separated the good from the bad. what we ended up with was a stu pot full of poison and somehow we justified there's good ingredients. well clean the sucker out and scrub it good and let's start over. that's what president trump wants to do and i for one say thank god somebody's looking at the way american money has been spent. liz: yeah, finally. governor mike huckabee thank you so much for joining us and being with us tonight. good to see you. now please listen to this.

>> thank you. >> american aid finance hamas' campaign to exterminate israel. similarly in afghanistan, yemen and syria, where we lack physical presence to insure that our aid is not diverted to terrorists. our aid is sustaining these war economies. liz: okay, you just heard that, right? a former top usaid official, he's the former acting chief operating officer. he's saying, mid east experts are agreeing, tens of millions of your tax dollars ended up in the middle east with terror groups, just a generation after 9/11. this is so over-the-top. it's hard to believe. they are testifying to it. that's what biden's white house did. that's what usaid did. former u.s. army special forces he's a big guy veteran, jim hanson is here to break that down. also this news coming up. the latest on what the trump white house is finding that disrupted first responders. we're talking firemen and police in cities nationwide disrupted by the biden white house, but

first this. >> you realize that a lot of the stuff will be litigated in court. some of it -- so if you don't think -- liz: okay we're taking on this new phony claim from democrats and the media that there's all of a sudden a spontaneous grassroots voter revolt against trump, elon musk, and doge. speaker mike johnson says hold the phone. far left money including from george soros is funding that. joe concha will take it on. please stick with us we're right back after the break. >> does the videos you saw of the town halls were for paid protesters in many places, these are democrats who went to the events early and filled up the seats.

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liz: welcome back. they continue to find things the biden white house is doing. this is the trump team.

u.s. attorney general pam bondi and the justice department is moving to toss out the lawsuits the biden white house brought against police and fire departments across the country. it was about pushing dei, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a.g. bondi says the priority should be public safety. let's get to fox news david spunt standing by live at the justice department for more on this. david this looks like quite a battle. >> well, liz, the attorney general says quite plainly that people should be able to be police officers, or firefighters, and the status of their gender, or their race, should have nothing to do with that at all. she says it should all be about merit, not diversity, equity, or inclusion. yesterday, she made the announcement that she's reaching out specifically to the civil rights division, here at the department of justice to make sure that they nix consent decrees, agreements with four different states, with police and fire departments in north carolina, in maryland, indiana, and georgia.

the agreements began as lawsuits against police and fire departments by the previous doj. the targeted fire and police departments and she added firefighters and mores should be chosen for their skill and not make dei quotas. cities were coerced into conducting hiring. the attorney general' chief of staff shared an article about the fires that plagued l.a. last month writing if there's anything we learned from recent events is that america is not safe when it's firefighters and police officers and first responders are selected based on dei instead of skill. now this action all stems from president trump's executive order that he signed getting rid of dei-related programs in the federal government when he first took office. she signed something similar after she came to the justice department. liz? liz: really interesting reporting. thank you so much, david spunt. we appreciate you. now, please listen to this. >> no i don't because the videos you saw of the town

halls were for paid protesters in many of those places. these are democrats who went to the events early and filled up the seats. if the videos -- >> you can't argue they were all paid protesters mr. speaker. the republican acknowledged they were his constituents. >> one republican acknowledged that, that's fantastic okay, but they had democrats come and fill the seats early. this is an old playbook they pulled out and ran and it made it look like what is happening in washington is unpopular. >> those lawmakers do also represent democrats. that doesn't mean they were paid to show up if they were upset about this. liz: that was house speaker johnson saying the supposedly spontaneous grassroots protest against republicans and president trump at town hall nationwide really phony, paid for , by far left activists. let's bring in fox news contributors a great writer joe concha. we need your analysis. what do you make of this here? >> well, this is what we heard

about the big crowds. we're told the momentum was behind kamala but it turns out that the campaign was paying celebrities to show up at rallies and in some cases not even perform. all to inflate the overall attendance to make it look like there is a ground swell of support and i think the same thing is happening here. i mean, you have courtesy of george soros and you had these protests that are targeting republican lawmakers in red districts to make it appear that voters are not behind the efforts of donald trump and elon musk and doge, to slash waste, fraud, and corruption, and if you asked republican voters but also independent voters even some sensible democrats, do you believe there should be comprehensive audits of various government agencies? i would think that if you asked 99 people on the street out of 100 they would say yes while the other one is likely drunk. who isn't against waste, fraud and corruption? overall, liz, harris harvard

poll out. 60% believe that doge is helping, so it seems more the media attacks the more money soros throws at the phony protests the more popular it gets. liz: interesting 60% joe concha said supports doge. we're talking like move-on.org. talking about a national mobilization effort to basically stage protests at congressional at town halls and even possibly congressional offices around the country, joe, so this is not going to stop. >> no, it isn't and i wonder as a lawmaker what do you do? if you're walking a into a fixed fight and you know these people aren't protesting because they are really against an entity like doge but because they are paid to do it or organized online, to cause chaos and create a media narrative, i don't know. maybe these town halls we have to start screening the people that come to these things more but it's a tough call. liz: keep speaking the truth joe concha we appreciate you.

please listen to this. >> great to see you. >> heated town halls, frustrated voters are airing out their concerns to congress members across the country over the trump administration's massive government cut. >> contentious town halls, what the gop is facing from voters. we're seeing this at town halls all over the country. liz: that's all phony. the msnbc, the media networks and anchors are making it up, not digging into what this story is really. they are running with the idea that towns across america are rebelling against doge and musk, and trump. coming up, we've got one far left town. it's actually going doge. it's embracing doge. it's a home to nancy pelosi. radio host mark simone will break it all down coming up but first this. >> foreign aid is not an international welfare program. usaid is not an international ngo. why should pro-hamas south africa? beijing's point country in

africa receive billions of dollars of aid from us. liz: okay, this is really shocking story. a former usaid top official testified that usaid spent tens of millions of dollars, your money, ended up in the hands of terrorists in the middle east. this is really over-the-top stuff. coming up former u.s. army special forces ops director jim hanson will take on these incredible details. but first let's check in with our friends dagen and brian. brian: liz, so republicans really getting cold feet about the speed of doge? we're going to talk to congressman rich mccormick all about it and then democrats trying to derail the energy dominance plan of the trump administration, derrick morgan has thoughts to share on that one. dagen: so far the doge cuts and the direction of spending in this country is actually lowering long-term interest rates and mortgage rates.

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>> i approved strong vetting policies for our humanitarian assistance in countries swarming with terrorists. that too was ignored by the biden administration. vast sums of u.s. money have been diverted to fund terrorists in gaza, syria, yemen and afghanistan. ngo's have been hit with fines for violating our anti-terrorism financing laws. we have identified over $122 million which has ended up supporting radical organizations or even directly bank rolling organizations considered to be terrorist by the u.s. government. liz: that was usaid former chief acting operating officer and top middle east expert testifying usaid ended up sending your taxpayer money somehow it ended up with terrorists in gaza, syria, yemen and afghanistan. it was up to 122 million. it could be more. let's bring in former u.s. army

special forces veteran jim hanson. jim, this sounds so over-the-top to be true. what do you make of this? >> you know, we've all watched elon musk's doge team dig up fraud, waste and abuse all over the government, and it's easy to mock lesbian dance troops and transgender operas but the very idea of our tax dollars going to fund terrorist groups is intolerable. on the second day of the administration, the middle east forum sent in a report that detailed that $122 million that greg roman was talking about when he testified and apparently, that caught the attention of elon and he dug into it usaid and now we're seeing results. there may be criminal charges coming out of this. liz: interesting and jim one report says that less than a week from hamas' brutal attack on israel, usaid gave more than 900,000 dollars to a terror charity in gaza involved with the son of hamas leader hanid, but take a listen here to the accusation that biden unplugged

the vetting mechanism, stopped that, that would have prevented terrorists getting u.s. taxpayer money. let's get your reaction to this , please. >> we had a regulation before we left and the last administration that anybody who touches money in countries where there's terrorists those names have to go through databases. that was overturned by biden. >> let's use gaza as our case study. $2.1 billion in american taxpayers money to gaza since october 7 when hamas invaded southern israel. they should have been against the special designated terrorist from the state department and other treasury organizations. waivers were granted because they say there was an emergency use to pad that money come into gaza, thereby the usual typical screening procedures, as a result, 90% of aid that was going from the united states by way of its agents in gaza ended up in hamas-controlled areas. this is ridiculous. essentially what the u.s. assistance to gaza did was underwrite the ability for hamas

to survive until the cease-fire was just passed a few weeks ago. there was no strategic thought for it and there was no screening. liz: you know, what is your reaction to that? why did biden unplug and stop the vetting mechanisms for that and was there this attitude in the biden white house that well, more u.s. taxpayer map will stop terrorism. really? >> there was nothing about the biden administration's policy towards the war in gaza that made the slightest bit of sense. this is hard to see as anything but malfeasance as greg pointed out, they removed any ability to look to see where the money was going, and we've heard of other reports now where $34 million in cash went into gaza and usaid claimed they had eyes on it once it went in and knew where it went and apparently, they did not, so there's more to come and the information we've had thus far has come from open sources. now, we've asked the justice department through the state department and through the doge subcommittee to open an investigation and look at who

has violated both the material support for terrorism, foreign corrupt practices act, and sanctions against designated terrorist entities statutes. there are criminals who need to be brought to justice because of this. liz: it's just so shocking this is going on just a generation after 9/11. jim hanson, thank you for your service to america. that was a great interview. now please listen to this. >> heated town halls, frustrated voters are airing out their concerns to congress members across the country over the trump administration's massive government cut. >> contentious town halls. what the gop is phasing from voters. >> we're seeing this at town halls all over the country. liz: yeah, the town halls are funded by left wing activist groups funded by george soros and his son. that's one media report saying that. the media is talking about this revolt against doge, ignoring a deep, blue city that's going doge and embracing doge. here is a clue to who it is and

what it is. it's nancy pelosi. she's got one of her mansions there. radio host we love mark simone is coming up next. please stay right there. >> it's like a child that comes in with mud on their pants or something. that's the way it is. they are outside playing. he comes in with doggie doo on his shoes and everybody who works with him has that on their shoes too for a very long time to come.

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elizabeth: welcome back. you know the action, the hate against with doge, the media with's attacking doge? the news that the democrat mayor of san francisco, mayor daniel laurie, is going doge. he's now ordering all city workers, get back to work. quit -- stop working from home. joining us now, wor radio host, mark if simone. san francisco is going doge? if that's a game-changer. what do you think? >> well, you know, you've got to be like paul sor is vino and robert deniro in good fellas, when he went to say henry, you gotta go back. the pan dem pandemic's over for three years, you've got to go back to work. doge is wonderful for the country. if you do it if cities and states, it would really make a

difference. the new york, california, you klein the waste and fraud, you would change all of that, taxes would be cut in half, service would improve p. it would turn these cities and states around. elizabeth: and why not get more raises and money for teachers, fire mentioner cops, first responders? we have, like, rachel maddow, nicole wallace, larry o'donnell, msnbc analysts going nuts about doge just doing what is garden variety stopping corruption that's been out there for generations. you've got florida, south carolina is, iowa, oklahoma, those states want their own doge. by the way, let me show it, private sector worker -- companies, rather, private sector companies are telling workers, cut it out, get back to the office a what's the big deal? is. >> yeah, you've got to to go back to work. the pandemic is long over. it's better for a million reasons, productivity and, you know, you want to get somewhere. first of all, in private industry we all work on metrics,

nielsen ratings, sales figures, government doesn't operate that that way, and it's got to start doing things with metrics, success. elizabeth: take on the media and democrat hysteria over this. final word, mark. >> you know, msnbc screaming for a week you can't lay off anybody, then monday they laid off 100 people. of it's the pact a call thing to do -- pact practical thing to do. elizabeth: like i said, we could have is money for cops, first responders, who knows in final word. >> florida has no tax because their budget is half of what new york's is, and and they have a bigger population. elizabeth: interesting. mark si moan you're so good. thank you for joining us. i'm liz macdonald. thank you for watching "the evening edit" on fox business. please don't forget to dvr us. we love it when you do. we also love dagen and brian at "the bottom line." take it away, you guys. that. dagen: a thank you, e-mac. elizabeth: you got it. ♪