"justice with judge jeanine" is next. remember i'm watters and this is my world. [♪] judge jeanine: welcome to justice, i'm lisa boothe in for judge jeanine pirro. later on i'll be talking with trump campaign senior advisor. negotiations continue for a covid relief deal. let's get things started with arizona congressman andy biggs. i want to get to you about the covid talks but i want to get

your take on what's happening in california. we have the recall effort to recall gavin newsom. we saw an assemblyman introduce a bill to curtail gavin newsom's emergency powers. he said gavin newsom for 300 days has been making decisions without consulting the legislature. are californians finally waking up? >> we get a lot of people from california into arizona. they are fed up with governor newsom. governor newsom issued orders and mandates. he affected businesses. he shut them down. we had loss of jobs. and in the meantime he hasn't bothered to fulfill his responsibility by following the laws and mandates put on the people. it created unrest over there.

that's why i think you are seeing the legislature saying we should be making these decisions, and that's why the recall movement is picking up steam according to my friends and resources in california. lisa: there are conversations we should being a about basic freedoms. a lot of businesses and businesses robbed of the ability to earn a living. my question to you, are we still a free country? >> we are seeing it limited. it's more than hypocrisy. when you are -- we all have a little bit of hypocrisy in us. but when you start telling other people of, you have to follow this law and you are exempt from that law as newsom has done and

we have had other mayors and governors do the same thing. it become a tyranny and imposition upon us. i think we lost a significant a. our freedom. normally what i would say each one of us assesses the risk we take every day. we make decisions based on how we assess those risks. we now had that taken away from us. instead we had an impossible by governors, mayors and county leaders and it's causing a problem. i think we have seen a lot of freedom. the question is will we fully recover from that and how long will it take if we do. lisa: that's a great question. when we see these leaders and they are not following their own guideline. we saw it with gavin newsom and the denver, colorado mayor.

nancy pelosi. all of these people. when that happens doesn't it undermine their citizens' faith in the policies and regulations they shall rolling out? >> yes. understand sniewtions america are already under attack. people question whether it's the election institutions, public health policy institutions. but when you have your leaders as well. i'm in the congress. we are held with a disregard by most americans today. and that partly is because we have not lived by the laws we placed on people. i single out speaker pelosi on that. but also in the states as well. the american people, they know intuitively that lawmakers have authority only because the people give them that power by voting for them, and in our constitution and the state

constitutions. we are seeing that being abused. that's why people don't trust us anymore. lisa: we are seeing negotiations on an omnibus spending bill and covid relief package. where do you stand on those two items? >> we have $500 billion that you can put for ppp, small businesses, without having to appropriate new money. it could have been done months ago but for political purposes. they are below thing up the relief package and the omnibus pack across. they will marry those together and you will have one bill out of the two. it will be the biggest spending bill as far as i know in the history of this country, and the history of the world. it will be $2.5 trillion.

it's so dangerous what we are doing. the best relief package americans could get is to open up the economy, let the american people be free people and heat them make decisions. you would see the economy come back quickly. people would get their jobs back and it would be great for this country. but this bill will be a huge huge burden for our future generation for sure. lisa: congressman, thanks so much for joining me tonight. i appreciate it. now to another major story. eric swalwell and his relationship with the suspected chinese spy. pressure is mourn thing for nancy pelosi to remove swalwell from his house intelligence committee position. one of the members, jim banks, joins me right now.

congressman. i just have to ask you, why is park swalwell still on 9 house intelligence committee. >> your guess is as good pass mine. this is most astonishing part of the story. nancy pelosi has known that eric swalwell was compromised by a chinese communist spy for years. still she appointed him to the committee. she allowed him to serve on the committee. even with the rest of america knowing what she knew privately. that a chinese communist spy compromised derek swalwell. either fake wall swell has something or the chinese communist party has something on nancy pelosi. or nancy pelosi needs eric swalwell's vote really badly in a couple of weeks to be re-elected as meak speaker of the house.

lisa: you serve on the china task force for republicans. we heard driver was a spy for several years. >> it's intentional and stretches far and wide. we are becoming more and more aware of the techniques the ccp uses. it stretches into corporate america, hollywood, professional sports, the way they coerced the nba last year is a big example. but what makes this story different is they identified him as a city councilman with political upside. coerced him into an interest map the relationship, it appears. they helps get him elected to

congress and helped staff his office. you start piecing this together, and it tells you this is part of a deep strategy by the chinese communist party to infiltrate our government. eric swalwell is privy to the most sensitive information of any member of congress by sitting on the intelligence committee. the fact that nancy pelosi is turning a blind eye to this threat, it's probably what we are going to see in the future. the democrat party today has become a tool of the chinese communist party. the chinese communist party has the democrat party in their back pocket and in swalwell's case's even worse. lisa: what do you think they were trying to gain from him. >> why nancy pelosi put him on

the national intelligence committee at this point is still a mystery. kevin mccarthy came out of the fbi briefing on this yesterday and accepted eric wall:00 p.m. c swalwell should be methly removed from the intelligence committee. the difference between the parties that you will see emerge even further. every single pick by joe biden for his administration has a pro china record, pro china rhetoric. financial entanglements, not to mention the hunter biden probe. this is very deep and wide for the democrat party.

lisa: why is the china daily being delivered to congress. the china daily is propaganda for the chinese communist party, but it's delivered to congressional offices on capitol hill. why? >> this one of the most astonishing thing that happened to me since i have become a member of congress. every day the china daily, a propaganda piece appears mysteriously on my doorstep as it dotser speakers of congress. i asked speaker pelosi, why is that allowed. why can't we stop a tool of the chinese government from ate pearing on our doorstep. she never addressed my letter. i followed up time and time again with her office. it's a sign of what has become of american politics. democrats tropical on the side

of china. the republicans are the tough on china party. lisa: essentially what happened, a lot of small businesses that took out ppp loans, they thought they would be able to have those expenses paid for with the ppp funding. but the irs is saying they can't. you are trying to change that. what do we know about that. >> as republicans negotiate with nancy pelosi, she has made it difficult to negotiate. she is demanding blue state bailouts as her key piece of the negotiation. the republicans are trying to solve this problem. they are keeping so many american families employed and paying them what they need to feed their families and pay their bills, and yet pelosi held all of that hostage for bailouts

to states like illinois. i come from indiana. and hoosiers shouldn't be on 9 hook to bail out states for decades before the pandemic. speaker pelosi should come her senses and do the right thing and pass a bill that solves these problems. lisa: it could be a 37% tax increase for these small of businesses who thought they could deduct the expenses, and the irs is saying they can't. still ahead, i speak with a restaurant owner in los angeles fed up with the dems crazy covid regulations. vet strand joey jones how we can make a difference for military families this christmas season. but next dr. marc siegel weighs in on the historic vaccine

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lisa: that's a flashback from joe biden talk about his vaccine scepticism about president trump's warp speed a couple months ago. but now that vaccine is rolled out and successful, he's set to receive his vaccine along with his wife jill biden. author of the new back to, "the politics of fear and the power of science" and fox news contributor, dr. marc siegel joins us now. kamala harris did the same thing, she raised doubt about the vaccine. how much damage did they do? >> that does a lot of damage. we already have a lot of vaccine

hesitancy in the united states. they are coming out at warp speed. the science is there. the fda is advised by top scientists. it's the wrong kind for doubting and politics and i might not take it. i'm glad to see the political leaders come forward and start taking it. but then you had the state saying my state got 30% less of the pfizer vaccine it was supposed to get in the first week. all this grumbling sows dissent and fear. but the chief operating officer of the vaccine rollout said the buck stops here. that kind of leadership is what we need. as well as the healthcare workers who lined up and said i will take it and i won't even take a day off.

lisa: you look at the fact there have been some allergy responses to the covid-19 vaccine. the fda is looking into the allergic responses. how much confidence to you have in these two vaccines? >> i talked to experts involved in the process. i am very confident. they have been tested for several years. this technology was first developed in the 1990s. and when you see a rollout and start giving it to millions and you will see occasional side effects. i am not that concerned about that. because in the united kingdom those two patients were carrying an epipenn with them. but that's what you normally see. that's the growing pains of an

extremely successful vaccine. it's the glass half full. they are tolerating it with a headache for a day, maybe slight muscle aches and a fever for a dane it goes away. lisa: president trump and the administration never get the credit they deserve. can you talk about how successful operation warp speed has been? >> it's unprecedented. it has president trump's signature on it. he's a deal maker. you have the u.s. military involved in this, and that's never been done. when i heard that, i knew the ridge trey ray tore trucks would work. and you have cvs and walgreens

involved. and fedex is delivering the doses and ups. this is unbelievable. all hands on deck and the top scientists in the world involved in this. that's what makes it historical and everybody should be cheering for this, not just one side. lisa: doctor, thank you for joining us tonight. coming up, joe biden sits down for yet another softball interview. will anybody in the media every ask him a challenging question?

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[♪] ashley: live from america's news headquarters. i'm ashley strohmier. the death toll in the u.s. from the coronavirus is rising. tomorrow trucks will be rolling to 3,700 locations nationally. the delivery of the first 20 million doses made by month --a and pfizer is expected by the

first week in january. california hospitals are being crushed by coronavirus infections. they are averaging 30,000 new cases a day. hospitals will doing what they can to free up icu beds including using tents. now back to "justice with judge jeanine." >> people who want to make hay in washington will try to use your adult son as a cudgel against you. how do you feel about that and what do you have to say to those people. >> we have great confidence in our son. i'm not concerned about allegations against him. it's used get to me. i think it's foul play. but it is what it is.

he's the smartest man i know from a pure intellectual capacity. as long as he's good, we are good. lisa: joe biden defending his son and the late show with stephen colbert. let's get the conversation started with trump 2020 senior advisor, katrina pierson and jessica tarlov. remember in 2019 joe biden said he never talked to his son about his overseas business dealing. we flow that to be a lie -- we know that to be a lie now. >> we got the emails from the questionable laptop. lisa: jess, we know he took his

son and an official visit to chiena. and met with his son's business official while he was there. why would he say that when all the evidence points against it. >> i wouldn't say all the evidence points against it. quite to the contrary you have that event where hunter biden did travel with his father. but the "wall street journal" debunked the report and found no role for joe biden as chairman that was referred to in those emails. you will see it's concocted to take down the biden family. there is no evidence that joe biden benefited from that. nepotism is not a crime. and that's all there is. you have the "wall street journal," the "new york times," "the washington post."

the "new york post" article about how hunter biden -- sorry, i'm getting my words confused. how hunter biden had done something et cetera, et cetera. the "new york times" investigated and found the person who wrote the article didn't want their name on the by line. lisa: katrina, i read the "wall street journal" article that jess is referencing. it said he didn't have an official role. and it doesn't mean he wasn't trying and he wasn't tangentially involved. if you look at hunter biden's emails that no one from the bind team dismissed or said they wouldn't authentic. it talks about 10% for the big guy.

we have tony bobulinski who said he met with joe biden twice for this potential deal with the chinese energy company. i just don't buy it when people are trying to disassociate joe biden from this. >> people pushing the russia hoax doing extensive investigations where president trump's son was seen ad by senate for farless investigation. and it received wall to wall coverage. but now we see the pot and the kettle. but the difference is joe biden won't have tor withhold a billion dollars, now he will be able to fire the u.s. attorney which is reassuring the swamp is back in safe hands with the

establishment so it will be business as usual enriching the politicians and their friends because that's left for the rest of us. there is a lot of evidence that the press didn't cover tony bobulinski when he held a press conference when he discussed articles being suppressed by big tech. if it were trump being called the big guy receiving 10%, there would have been wall to wall coverage. the double standard is egregious. lisa: joe biden has said he has confidence in his son and he did nothing wrong. should he support a special counsel? >> i am not sure he needs to get to a special counsel. we'll see where the investigation goes. i know team trump wants to do as

much as they can in their final days in office to even shire they make life as miserable as possible for the bidens. donald trump tried to pressure the ukrainian president to investigate the bidens. let them investigate his finances. hunter is a big boy. but i want to remind everybody. joe biden was on the ballot. hunter biden wasn't on the ballot. there is no credible evidence that joe biden personally benefited from any way from what hunter biden was doing. or that hunter did anything wrong. nepotism is not a crime. >> i would argue text messages and emails are evidence. and it has not been disputed.

i think there is evidence. and of course there should be a special counsel. if it's good enough for the trump family it should be good enough for the biden family. >> i don't think the bind camp denied that joe biden met with tony bobulinski. but we have to leave it there. katrina, jessica, appreciate you guys joining me tonight. just ahead, unreasonable covid restrictions destroying small businesses. one restaurant owner is taking on the california owner himself to try to save his livelihood.

>> they shut down indoor dining. no problem. i have a warehouse full of

plexiglas. we went outdoors. now that's getting shut down. there is no scientific evidence that shows outdoor dining is contributing to a rise in cases. lisa: he's fighting back as he tries to keep his business open against gavin newsom's orders. did you ever think you would have the government trying to prevent you from earning a living or being able to keep your restaurants open? >> no, i never thought i would get past the excessive taxes and restrictive regulations. not the actual hand crushing down on the businesses. lisa: you mentioned in the video you already spent thousands of dollars to meet the rules, to comply, and they keep pushing.

it was indoor dining, now it's outloor dining. how much money have you spent on that and what was the impact? >> we spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to keep up with the restrictions and safety mandates. that's what we wanted to do. we are focused on safety, all of us having food handlers cards. we spent money and the plexiglas. it's incumbent upon the small businesses when somebody tests positive for the krf were or gets quarantined, we continue to pay the employees. but there is no rebate from the federal or state government. it's just another cost being pushed down on the small businesses which is making it harder for us to operate. you saw new york own data showed

indoor dining is 1.5% of the covid spread. then l.a. they can't prove a correlation between outdoor dining and the covid spike. why do you think restaurants have become the scapegoat. >> it's easy to shut us down. a it's a million of little pieces. we don't have lobbyists and law firms behind us. a lot of their policies are driven by ego making it look like they are doing something tough and difficult. if they shut us down it divert attention away from amazon, starbucks, walmart, they continue to operate. they are the large donors to most of these people's campaigns including the entertainment industry in l.a. shut us down and we'll not fight back while they can push all

that money and revenue into big business. lisa: you are actually doing something about it. it's sad to see private citizens are the ones who have to step up here to keep your restaurant open. you started a gofundme page and you raised $41,000. tell me about some of the stories you are hearing about people struggling and trying to stay afloat. >> we started this fund called 86 restaurant struggle. 86 in the restaurant industry is when you are out of something. this is directed towards the restaurant workers who had their showers cut and often without notice. i am getting emails, my wife and i, i lost my job, we can't buy

gifts for th the kids or even fd and rent. what we are hearing is incredibly sad. these aren't college kids living in mom and dad's basement who need beer money. these are oftentimes single mothers and dads trying to put food on the table. and they are left out in the cold quite literally. lisa: small businesses in america make up almost half our private sector jobs. even if people don't know restaurant owners or small businesses, it impacts all of us. yet we have seen politicians not too much and put the heavy hand of the government on these people just trying to keep afloat and earn a living. right now the conversations

going on on capitol hill about covid response, looking at a $900 billion. what do you grant congress? >> first and foremost what i'm asking is to kinds of get rid of this apathetic disregard for the restaurant industry. and 9 ecosystem that surrounds the restaurant industry, there are so many jobs that rely on our restaurants being open. we are not asking for handouts. we are asking for help, right? so we can continue to operate and do so in a safe manner. but if you are going to shut us down we'll need a financial bridge to get from point a to point b. our team members are our employees which are effectively our family. and they need help. we saw here in california the unemployment benefits were miss appropriated when they got that federal money and there were

hundreds of thousands of people left out in the cold without their unemployment benefits. i know people who still haven't gone the them from firings in april and march. they need to think about small businesses and stop thinking about their donors with tax breaks and loopholes that aren't helping out during this pandemic. lisa: why can people find that and donate. >> the gofundme is called help struggling restaurant workers. or you can follow me on twitter, i'm pretty much posting every day. we have gotten so much support. we want to help communities. high school keep fighting the good fight. thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you.

lisa: stay with us. we'll be right back.

lisa: welcome back. it's the season for giving.

our military heroes and their families could use some extra joy in this very tough year for all of us. marine corps veteran and fox news contributor, joey jones, is here to he will us more. you are work on the program called the santa boost program. what do we need to know about it? >> i have been involved with this organization for many years. i just joined the board of directors. my wife meg works there. it's an amazing organization. i have known these people, they are out of texas. it was started by women who weren't even in the military. they thought of something snore uplifting would be around the holidays. so they came up with santa boots. they get almost 100 families and

they custom purchase all their christmas for them. they have been affected by hurricanes or spent their own money trying to get well and get the care they need. it's so personal and i appreciate all the staff for doing it. >> it's boot camp pain.org. this santa boots. the ladies from elf on the shelf support it. if you serve in the military you have some pride about you. and if you have fall on hard times, this isn't just a p.r. stunt. what they get ways they need in their lives and want. if someone they know is in charge of delivering to them. they can choose when they open their packages. we lad a santa call in and talk

to the kids. lisa: it's not easy coming home either. is it. >> no, it's not. i'm in pete hegseth's new book "modern warriors." one of the things love about the book were there are so many people from so many backgrounds. we are brothers and best friends. to come home is how is this country so divide when we have so many things that device and we deploy and learno to love each other. these are the ones maybe struggling a little bit. i wish people would apply that to their own lives. just go talk to somebody. lisa: everybody should get the book "modern warriors."

it's an awesome book written by fox's pete hegseth. thanks, joey. we'll be right back.

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lisa: welcome to back to justice. we have heard concerns about voting machines and voting software specifically a company called smarter magic. we reached out to eddie perez for his insight. he is the global director of tech. his team developed open source software for elections and we asked him what he knew about it. >> have you seen any evidence of

the software was used to flip votes in this election? >> i have not seen any evidence that the software was used to delete, change, alter anything related to vote tabulation. >> it's a is the smart where was never used. do you know whether or not that's true? >> i'm not aware of them have any direct customers with election officials in a state. >> what about smartmatic and dominion? do you know if they related whether one owns the other or they both use smartmatic software? and they have both respectively put out clear statements from their corporate headquarters in each of them indicating they are independent companies. they are not related to each other. >> could be seen evidence of the connection between george sowers and smartmatic? >> i'm not aware of a direct connection between george soros and smartmatic. it's my understanding an

executive at smartmatic has some sort of relationship with the foundation. that's the extent of my knowledge. >> have you seen any evidence of smartmatic sending votes to be tabulated in foreign countries? >> no i'm not aware they are sending votes to be tabulated in foreign countries but as others have pointed out irrespective of what technology measure we are talking about in the united states that ballots that are cast in the united states are tabulated in the united states. >> are you were for any instances in which smartmatic technology was banned in u.s. in 2020 duda security weaknesses are run doing? >> i'm not aware of any technology band banned in the u.s.. it is my understanding that outside of one customer in los angeles county smartmatic has no voting technology marketplace in the united states.

lisa: i am lisa. thank you so much for watching and wishing all of you and your families a very happy and merry christmas. have a great night. ♪ ♪ greg: and exciting new poll came out but sadly for hunter biden knows was attached to it right according to the hill 60% of voters approve of the job joe biden is doing. what job is that u.s.? the job as president-elect, yes an actual job now and joe biden is also a doctor a doctor alike. it's not quite a doctor but it looks great on a mailbox for putting case you're wondering if the media is with the dems turning out a conveyor belt that created a new job president-