no, anytime we crack open any food, rookie is up in his grill. it's not good. what is good, tucker carlson, which happens to be coming up right after this show, which you must dvr. always remember, i'm watters, and this is my world. will: i'm will cain in for tucker. if you want to know what's in a bill in congress, what it's going to do, take a look at the name of the bill. whatever it is, you can be sure the legislation will do the opposite.

in turn devalue the currency. that in turn cause more inflation. that's basic supply and demand. before we get into the specifics of the legislation, keep in mind, life is already so expensive in this country that we literally have bread lines in major cities. we spoke to volunteers in one food bank in camden, new jersey, and said many people can't afford rice and beans. >> look at all these people. this line runs almost around the

block here. yeah, things cost more. so people that otherwise, you know, you look -- people well dressed in line, that, you know, typically would not be at a food bank, but they are. >> prepandemic we were at abundance, feeding about 90,000 people per week. now we're at 140,000 per week. rice, pasta, beans. we're also finding that finding those items for us is getting to be very expensive as well. >> i want to again show the line of folks here. this is all sorts of folks, families, single people, a lot of these people would not in a line to try to get some food. >> will: that's america, happening across america, and you have to wonder where, then, is the biden administration devaluing money when we have bread lines? their justification for the bill is that it will stop the climate from changing. that's why the bill includes $50 billion in subsidies for

electric vehicle purchases, which allows master manufactureo jack up the price. and of course there's $100 billion for the so-called renewable injury, which includes manufacture of solar panels and wind turbines. is that a good investment? let's see. right now china makes 80% of the world's solar panels and most of the wind turbines. safe to say china understands renewables, but china is not relying on those renewables for power generation. this chart shows annual emissions going back to the '70s. our emissions having going down for years. china's has been rising dramatically, because they're not shutting down their coal plants. in fact, they're building more coal plants than the rest of the

world combined. what that means is that china wants the rest of the world to run on so-calleddee renewables, but china doesn't want renewables for themselves, because china benefits financially and strategically when western countries sabotage their own energy supply in the name of protecting the climate. like any good dealer, they don't get high on their own supply, and most americans recognize that. a recent tweet from rasmussen, people in this country care about things like inflation, the economy, crime, immigration. by contrast, most americans recognize the media is far more interested in pushing false narratives about climate change. there's good reason for that. you'll notice no one in the media never blames china or india for their carbon emissions, even though they are the world's largest polluters. instead the media blames americans. >> it's almost a privilege to care about inflation as your

number one issue. the same is true of gas prices, or even the idea that it's the economy stupid. i always found that analysis lack, because as a black person i don't want to get killed on the way to my job. i'm glad i have a job, make a living wage, but if i can't be alive, then what does the other stuff matter? >> will: that's a television host in a television studio, lecturing people standing in bread lines about their privilege. by the way, this is how the white house views inflation as well, openlyk mooing anyone concerned about inflation. how do you know that? the biden administration just approved a $300,000 grant to promote gay and transgender social acceptance in botswana. "the daily call" is reporting the african country can expect funds soon. meanwhile americans can't afford rice and beans. it's an obvious failure of

leadership no one can defend this. at msnbc they've been reduced to this. >> have you just lost your house because of a flood in kentucky, if you just lost your livelihood because it burnt down in a wildfire, if you just lost your life because you are the wrong color, and you were pulled over somewhere, inflation doesn't really matter to you or to your loved ones. there are much broader things going on right now in this country that affects so many demographics that the dollars-to-cents case that's been made time and again about -- like, i said, it's the economy stupid -- there's a blind spot there, and the majority of people who make that statement are generally white. >> will: inflation, recession, that's not really what matters in life. if you notice the footage we showed you earlier about the bread lines, not a racial issue. inflation hurts poor americans the most, and that happens to cut across racial lines. so why are we making inflation worse? if it's not to save the climate,

and it's not about punishing privileged americans, what's the point? here's one clue. buried in the bill is a big giveaway to the internal revenue service. the agency stands to gain $80 billion from this legislation, allowing the agency to hire more than 80,000 new agents. keep in mind, the irs is already wonderfully, mysteriously, heavily militarized. they've stockpiled thousands of firearms and millions of rounds of ammunition. why does the irs need all that weaponry? why do we need to make the irs even more powerful exactly? we know the point isn't to investigate wealthier powerful americans. the most recent version of the bill keeps the carried interest loopholes intact, benefiting wealthy individuals and institutions in particular. hedge fund managers, who are some of the democratic party's biggest donors. it won't be goldman sachs doors

being kicked in by irs agents with guns. following all this, it means doing exactly what china and hedge fund managers to make a lot of money in china want us to do. what do americans get out of the deal? apparently a lot more inflation. probably a lot more audits. ned ryan is ceo of american majority, and he joins us now. ned, we're talking about priorities on the one hand inflation, crime, recession, on the other, gay and transgender acceptance in botswana. how do you explain the divide in priorities? >> well, i think it's very clear by their actions, will, that the ruling class of both parties, could care less about promoting or protecting anything of the american people's interests. in fact, so you not only have feckless republican leaders, but you've got the deeply un-american left. by that i mean the democratic

party that i think is holy intent on destroying the american way of life as we know it, because they hate it, will, and they think it's evil. the idea of cheap energy, of national sovereignty, of patriotism, of love of country. these are all backward and ignorant ideas, according to the left. so since the dirty little peasants haven't figured out what's best for them, they will learn how to submit as they're being crushed into submission between inflation and taxes. either they submit to it, will, or the american people are going to actually figure out what this ruling class is doing to them and rise up and demand new leadership and hopefull very soon. >> will: i hear you describing a political class, not only out of touch with the needs of the american people, but is cavalier and understands this current economy to be the consequences of a grander vision. what is that vision?

>> honestly, will, if you were to take it and look at the un-american left, they've been wholly intent for the last century, and are getting aggravated at the slowness of the progress of doing away with the old order of things, the constitution of the republic, destroying all of that, destroying the old order to bring in a new order in which they make the state all powerful. that's been the goal for the last hundred years. you can sense from them, will, that their patience has worn thin. enough is enough. people haven't figured out what's best for them. we're going to accelerate the process in which the american people will submit to the administrative state, the unelected bureaucrats, so-called elite, supposedly going to lead us to progress, which in fact is nothing but a regressive path. when you look at these energy policies, extremely regressive. in fact, if we were to allow the green new deal, crazy climate change policies to be implemented, it would cause massive damage, not only to this country, but worldwide.

might cause a billion deaths. it's incredible what they're trying to achieve, and overwhelmingly intent on trying to achieve it. >> and you understand there are acceptable consequences when you see it play out in place like holland, sri lanka, the implications of policies soon making their way to the united states. ned ryan, thank you so much. great to talk to you this evening. the biden administration has repeatedly denied it's buying crack pipes for addicts. harm reduction sites were visited receiving federal funds. a meth pipe and crack pipe was picked up from one of these sites. patrick is the reporter with the "washington free beacon," and he broke the story and joins us

now. patrick, thank you for joining me tonight. let me get this straight. you got your hands on crack pipes, meth pipes, from a pac-funded organization. >> you got it. we went to two organizations in maine that are funded through this harm reduction program. now, as you said in february, they claimed -- the white house claimed this is misinformation, this isn't true, but what we know now for sure that they say these funds haven't been used, but still these organizations set to use these funds are already distributing crack pipes across the state of maine. >> will: how did it work, patrick? did you go in, say, hey, where's my crack pipe? how did you get your smoking paraphernalia? >> you walk up, a bag with pipes. you walk right up. they have to put you into the system so you can repeatedly go there, pick up drug paraphernalia, needles and such. it's very simple. you know, i want to be clear, will, what's going on here.

this is harm dukes ideology, there's for effort to rehab, to stop drug use. the whole point is to reduce harm in drug use. >> will: patrick, i don't know a ton about crack. harm reduction, by the way, if you were plaining to me that you were providing heroin addicts clean needles, i can see the logic of how it would be a harm reduction. what is it about getting your own personal crack pipe that reduces the harm? >> yes. so these groups, they claim the pipes can spread disease if you cut your lips. like you said, it's very unpopular. the white house message on this has been very inconsistent. six months i broke the story. just now, a day after the story this week, they said, okay, they'll meet individually with every group that receives these federal funds. this wasn't the message before. they were saying misinformation. then came the fact checks, saying it's false. i don't hear about the fact

checks anymore. >> will: your text is wonderful, where you ask for for a crack pipe, and your response given from, i assume that's the church of safe crack pipe smoking -- >> that one is main health access. >> will: yes, 100. heart-shaped eyes. come in on patrick, get your drug paraphernalia. >> yeah. that's a text from main access point. these groups proudly declare they're part of the federal program, what the government is funding. these are the groups. one more point here, will, the crack pipes are just the start of this ideology. last week "the new york times" reported that the biden administration is open to the idea of injection sites, which we see in new york now, only in new york city, where they allow users to come in and use drugs. there's oversight on this. it's legal drug use.

this could happen across the country if the white house gets on board. >> will: wow. a government whose priorities will create lines for crack pipes and injection sites while ignoring bread lines seems to be a government run not by joe biden but hunter biden. thank you, patrick, for highlighting this with you this this morning. >> thanks for having me on. >> will: next we'll talk about the left's love of liz cheney. she has a plan to recruit democrats to keep her in congress. we'll assess. plus, kamala harris punished drug offenders, so why is she upset that brittney griner is in jail in russia? we spot the hypocrite.

>> will: kamala harris is not happy the wnba player brittney griner has been nine years in prison in russia, convicted of carrying vape cartridges containing cannabis oil when she arrived at an airport in moscow back in february. yesterday kamala said it was

wrongful detention of griner. when she was attorney general, kamala harris had no problem ruthlessly enforcing drug laws in california, prosecuting californians for marijuana possession. the in a 2019 presidential debate, she was called out and her record on stage. >> senator harris says she's proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she'll be a prosecutor president. i'm deeply concerned about this record. she put over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations and laughed about it when asked about if she ever smoked marijuana. she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. she kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of california.

she fought to keep the bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way. >> will: kamala harris did not like that. tuls igabbard joins us now. now kamala is condemning russia. how do we make sense of the vice president? >> that's a great question, will. she's condemning other countries for doing the same thing. it doesn't make sense. what struck me when i saw kamala harris' tweet, her statement expressing this outrage about

brittney griner, first of all, let me say i don't think anybody anywhere in the world should be imprisoned for marijuana possession, period, full stop. when you look at kamala harris' statement on twitter, she's expressing this outrage about brittney griner. my question for her and the biden administration, where is your outrage for your fellow americans sitting in prison today, here in the united states of america, because of minor marijuana violations. how come you are not fighting as hard for them to be returned home and reunited with their families as you are for brittney griner? to me the message to the american people, through their actions, is loud and clear, that if you are rich and powerful, or famous, then you will get special treatment from this administration. if you are not, we don't care about you. we'll let you sit there and rot in jail. >> will: tulsi, do you think that's what it is, simply sheer, unadulterated elitism or a reflection of kamala harris'

emptiness, that she's simply willing to play to wherever the current climate, stream, river, is flowing? when it was flowing in california to prosecute marijuana, she was happy to ride that stream. when it's unpopular, she's happy to go on a morning show and pretend she listened to tupac shakur, years before he ever came out, and laughed at the idea she smoked marijuana. she seems like an empty vessel. >> the evidence is in her record, not only this issue, but other issues, unfortunately like too many politicians it seems she puts her finger to the wind and decides what things she's supposed to be angry about any given day. if it becomes politically inconvenient or damaging she'll switch the other way. i know healthcare was one issue during the presidential campaign. on monday, tuesday, wednesday and thursday, she gave almost

opposing answers on that issue, leaving the mainstream media, like "the new york times," where to you stand on healthcare? so, you know, i think it's unfortunate. it's unfortunate that we have a vice president of the united states who doesn't appear to stand for anything other than herself. >> will: you make a great point. condemning russia for something that the vice president has very less control over while leaving americans to suffer under the punishment of those similar laws right here in america, where you do have control. tulsi gabbard, you called her out then. thank you for calling her out again tonight. liz cheney is down 20 points in her upcoming primary race in wyoming. turns out republican voters in her state don't care much for lectures from the january 6th committee, but it does turn out liz does have one fan, her dad. he just cut an ad for her congressional campaign. >> in our nation's 246-year history there's never been an individual that was the greatest

threat to our republic than donald trump. liz is fearless. she never backs down from a fight. there's nothing more important she will ever do than lead the effort to make sure donald trump is never again near the oval office. and she will succeed. i'm dick cheney. i proudly voted for my daughter. i hope you will too. >> will: it's a sharp hat. dick cheney is a big fan of his daughter. in fact, think she can be president one day. >> dick cheney is a big liz cheney reporter. we both have sadness about what's happening to our party, a despair about how it could be that so many republicans would refuse to stand up and tell the truth. it is a scary moment for the nation. >> i'd just like the record to reflect that you did not say that dick cheney is not telling you to run for president in

2024. >> will: liz cheney is counting on support from democrats and supports and cnn to help her win her primary on august 16th. her campaign sent out this flyer to democrat voters in wyoming, which begins, how do i could change my party afilllation to vote for liz? the democratic party have aligned themselves with liz cheney and dick cheney. what's going on here? glen grenwald joins us now. liz cheney as i presidential candidate. why is cnn floating a presidential campaign? >> it's bizarre, will. 2005 is when i stopped working as a constitutional lawyer in order to become a political writer and journalist. at the time the absolute liberal

consensus, virtually universal, was that dick cheney wasn't just somebody who was misguided, but a bloodthirsty war criminal, created a lawless presidency, someone who stole the 2000 election from the rightful winner, al gore, and liz cheney is somebody who's been defending her father's policies from the beginning, and continues to. she did not recant torture and domestic spying, gauntanamo. nancy pelosi called her a leader of great courage, integrity, and honesty, it's absolutely surreal. the motive is obvious, which is literally anybody who opposes donald trump becomes a hero in the eyes of democrats and liberals. >> will: you know, you asked that question, glenn, on twitter. i saw it.

i wanted to bring it up. i want to answer your own question. we have the tweet we can put up, i believe, were you asked, has the liberal mind explored the explanation of why it would be that the man who they called a nazi before calling people nazis was cool is now one. biggest opponents to donald trump? why do you think liberals explain cheney hating trump? >> yeah. i think people have forgotten that in 2016 the expectation of the republican establishment was that the almost certain winner, certain nominee, was going to be jeb bush. and donald trump campaigned vehemently denouncing the entire bush/cheney view that we should be at war, that all money should go to regime change all over the world. he denounced that militaristic

vision as something that destroys peace in the world and benefits only a tiny sliver of the american population, weapons manufacturers and the like, and donald trump won. and so what he basically did was expel bush/cheney ideology from the republican party by denouncing them, and all this is, the reason dick and liz cheney hate donald trump, the bush family as well, because it's petty dynastic vengeance, angry that trump positioned himself as an adversary of their defining world view, dynasty and legacy, and won the republican primary by doing that. >> will: at one point the adversary of neoconservatism aligns themselves with the banners of neoconservatism in order to oppose donald trump because he was aopposed to neoconservatism. really, really principled. glenn greenwald, thank you for joining us tonight. >> to be with you.

>> will: nancy pelosi's visit to taiwan has provoked a major response from china's government. it's not good news for the green energy crowd. that's straight ahead.

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>> will: we told you earlier in the show about the inflation running backs act, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on green energy, making inflation worst. we wanted to bring you the left perspective, why congress needs to pass the inflation reduction act. >> where's the education pieces here? climate change. if we actually stop these extreme weather events, look at what's happening in kentucky right now. look at what's happening in

california right now. we then give a future to our kids. this is a bill that's going to solve the issues that keep people up at night. thank you very much. >> will: i thought i was a hand talker. a lot of body english. according to randy weingardner, it's not going to stop inflation, but extreme weather events. all we need to do its spend $300 billion and we won't have any more hurricanes, coming from the head of the second biggest teachers union in the country. you wore wondered why your local public school is a mess, there's your answer. there's your answer. speaking of fighting climate change, nancy pelosi seemed to have messed that up for democrats. china's government just announced that it will no longer coordinate with the u.s. on climate change. that's a big deal, since china produces the most carbon emissions of any country in the world by far.

china also said it won't help us stop drugs like fentanyl from entering the united states. why was was nancy pelosi's trip there done? miranda, what was accomplished by nancy pelosi? >> hi, will. well, it was a fantastic boon for china, because they don't want to do anything about climate change anyway, and they're not doing anything about fentanyl. it's just a gift for president xi at a time when he needs a distraction from the economic lows that china has. when he's about to crown himself the new mao, another extended term unprecedented, it's good for him. it allows him to accelerate their belligerence against

taiwan. for what? for nothing. basically for nancy pelosi to have a victory lap, another photo opportunity, because she knows she's going to lose in november. basically the mixed messages that have come from the administration, with joe biden saying that she shouldn't go, then leaks about how she'd been advised not to go. the fact that the to beio political situation is so precarious at the moment. you know, we're already having a problem in ukraine. why on earth do we need this elderly woman freelancing? it was utterly self-indulgent of nancy pelosi. she was masquerading as a boss girl, and really it was all about her and her legacy, i guess. >> will: this was a trip about her ego, then nothing, including apparently the platform of the democratic party, could really hold a candle to that ego.

if you're really worried about climate change, you should be worried about china and india's participation. instead we're talking about how to control american's choices and behavior. >> absolutely. look, the problem is that china can see that america is -- or the biden administration is weak, divided, and possibly compromised. so they don't have to do anything. they feel no compulsion to even show any kind of courtesy. what is the point really of joe biden having a two-hour-plus conversation with president xi as he seems to do fairly regularly. i think five times since he's been president when he's never -- he never confronts china about covid-19, for instance. and china just becomes increasingly belligerent,

increasingly out of control america just shows an tooted that's confounded by this vanity trip by nancy pelosi. >> will: compounded by ego. it's a weakness compounded by ego. look, you know, miranda, we can sit here and talk climate change, but a real impact on americans, the chinese communist party has taken the role of the med medijin, if you want more fentanyl. >> it needs to be coordinated and decided, properly organized, not having just nancy pelosi prance over there. i'm surprised that republicans were backing her.

once joe biden said the stupid thing he did, she had to go. she should never have thrown herself into the pot without coordinating it with the rest of the administration. >> will: miranda, thanks for being with us. >> not at all. thanks, will. >> will: new information tonight about joe biden's meeting with the chinese officials inside the west wing of the white house. what exactly did they talk about and why? why has the fbi refused to investigate this meeting? that is straight ahead.

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>> soft on crime policies embolden career criminals, and there's a sheriff's departmenter in new york city arrested a staggering 101 times and has been let go almost every single time. take a look at this guy. this is harold gooding, who new york mayor eric adams dubbed number one recidivist number one. he's a 53-year-old serial shoplifter, serving three prison terms, at the top of nypd's list of the worst of the worst offenders. all of his recent crimes taking place in manhattan. he's been repeatedly let go over and over and over again. here's what nypd says about this. >> we've arrested that individual over a hundred times. how many crimes has he committed?

200? 300? 1,000? guess what. there's a victim behind each one of those crimes. >> on top of that, the "new york post" also reports that 10 career criminals have racked up nearly 500 arrests since the bail reform began, and most of them on the streets. the worst of the worst, repeat offenders, have racked up a total of 485 arrests since 2020, with one criminal busted 33 times since 2020, and another arrested 22 times all this year. >> definition of insanity, doing the same thing repeatedly but expect a different result. our criminal justice system is insane. it is dangerous. it is harmful. it's destroying the fabric of our city. the. >> will, nypd statistics show the rearrest rates of burglars

and thieves last year were as high as three times what they were back in 2017 as criminals now know there are few, if any consequences, under ultraaggressive district attorneys. back to you. >> will: thank you, bill. so tonight we're learning much more about joe biden's involvement in his family overseas influence peddling operations. according to ""the daily mail"," joe biden met with two chinese energy executives in the west wing of the white house back in july of 2014, just four days after that meeting, "the daily mail" reports, quote, one of the executives emailed hunter biden offering his services for $102,000, willing to give him a $102,000 sports car, inviting the vp's son over for a visit. as far as we know, the fbi hasn't looked into any of this. on capitol hill yesterday, fbi director christopher wray

acknowledged that his agency is covering up damaging information about hunter biden. >> isn't it true that mr. tebow, agent tebow, excuse me, and fbi supervisory intelligence analyst brian otan covered updryingtory information about mr. hunter biden? >> when i read the letter that describes the kinds of things that you're talking about, i found it deeply troubling. >> will: wray is researchersing a eliminate from whistleblowers. you know, julie, i've interviewed john paul mac isaac, the delaware computer laptop repairman. she's shown me and told me how little interest the fbi has in hunter biden, and it seems that's still the case.

>> well, the only interest they have in hunter biden is how they can cover up the investigation or lack thereof into his laptop. christopher wray yesterday would not even confirm the fbi has the laptop, even though reportedly they took possession of the device in december of 20 19. so we don't know what's going on with that investigation. we know there's a separate tax investigation. but to what senator kennedy was talking about, what the fbi is doing is covering up any sort of scandals or criminal -- incriminating evidence that could be found on this laptop. you had fbi officials go to senators grassley and johnson in august of 2020 to warn them that any reporting on hunter biden's laptop was russian disinformation. they're not only burying any sort of investigation, they're actually spinning it in a way that prevents even u.s. senators from looking into the contents

of that laptop really. christopher wray was deeply disturbed by it. i mean, who is running this agency? he is. he's fully aware of it. he was highly evasive before the senate judiciary committee hearing yesterday. >> will: julie, where he began tonight's show talking about priorities. when you think about the priorities of the fbi, what are we supposed to make of this law enforcement organization? on one hand, as you point out, not just burying, but spinning the hunter biden investigation, and on the other hand looking into, quote, unquote, domestic terrorists, and identifying theo project veritas -- identifying them with the betsy ross flag, this seems to be the fbi's priority. >> it is. christopher wray is extremely knowledgeable about the events of january 6th, which he

designated an act of domestic terror. he told senator tom cotton yesterday that the fbi was too busy, too overloaded to investigate a single pro abortion activist who was demonstrating violating federal law, demonstrating outside the homes of brett kavanaugh. the very next day, today, less than 24 hours later, his fbi arrested another man from kansas, charging him with parading and ticketing in the u.s. capitol 19 months ago. this is such an egregious double standard of justice. the hunter biden and biden family investigation is just one part of it, because this fbi has been weaponized and politicized. it is an enforcement arm of the democratic party. >> will: interested in the betsy ross flag, disinterested in corruption.

stay right there. we'll be right back.

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