what will they choose, hopeful y there is still enough good samaritans among us, selfless enough to make the right choice. thank you for watching tonight, i'm judge jeanine pirro. catch the five, monday through friday. ♪ ♪ mark: hello america. i'm mark levin, this is "life, liberty andlibe levin." le this week on over federal debt and about we'll default. we are getting propaganda from white house, the president and his ples secretary and democrats, i

want to break it down, it will determine the state of our economy in weeks and months and years ahead. first we need to look at the constitution. let's take a look. who is responsible for spending and borrowing? raising taxes, is it the president? obviously not, article i section 8: >> the first part of that. it is not a suggestion. it is not a ambiguous this say choir power that legislature has, when you look at history, back to britain and the parliament with the king.

this was something that the framers of your constitution looked at, they wanted this power not to be with the king or this presidency they created or executive branch. they are supposed to execute the laws passed by congress, they gave this power to congress, to the people who are directly electioned in congress. senator of the time chosen by state legislators and house chosen by the people, you, we the people have some say so over the finances of our country. do you feel that way today? this is explicit. we don't need to read between the lines, not next to the abortion claws, of whclause. of which there is none. this is the primary duty in the house of representatives. now duty of executive branch iin -- article ii section

3: >> the president. -- he took an oath, during his inauguration to unhole tunhold the laws, even if you disagree biden does not comprehend this or care. he violates the laws willy-nilly with forgiving and a trillion dollars in student loans, he thinks he can do whatever he wants and so does his party, that is why his party wants to stuff the supreme court with more leftists, his party want to eliminate the fil filler rule and add puerto rico and dc at states, and his party wants to change the election laws so they never lose. that is not good enough.

so, again, article ii section 3: >> so when you put that section together as framers did article i. who is responsible for taxes, and spending and borrowing, congress, it is job of president of united states to protect congress' role. look at 14 amendment. mark? what does that have who with anything, right. nothing. yet joe biden's advisers some of the loonie law professors who claim what constitution says when they despise it i include among them, lawrence tribe, they say section 4. people who ratified that and drafted it intended for positive of united states -- president of united states to have power to go around congress' core function in

article i if he wants to spend, borrow and tax, he is free to do so. why? here is the argument. it is preposterous. there it is. the valid die validity of public death of the united states -- what was the point this section? to clean up finances of united states of america and determine as a general matter who would be paid and who would not be paid. after and as a result of

civil war. this has nothing to do with the full faith and credit of united states today. what they are saying s look as a federal government, a union now, these are debts we'll pay, services to suppressing confederacy, but not playing anything in services in support of the conditithe confederacy, that is what it says, so joe biden, being the constitutional expert he is an lawrence tribe, my opinion more wrong than writright, that is the trouble with actives, joe biden can issue federal bonds, treasury bonds on his own. and go around the house and the congress generally, and he can start paying off the debt, he could start doing all things. now this is the democrat

party's dream. this is their dream. they talk about democracy. they hate democracy. unless it supports them. they support elections when they win. they have built a permanent edmunthey want to pack the courts, just think about this. the power they want to give joe biden, they would deny to donald trump in two seconds or ron desantis. look at power and biden's actively thinking about this. do you know what the answer to this is, to negotiate with the republicans in the house, he really doesn'tn 't to do, in 2023 as of april, federal government had income from you 2.69 trillion but spend 3.61 trillion in the same period,

that is the problem. in 2023, the national debt up to now, april is 31.46 trillion dollars. trillion. in 2022 the federal government collected a total of 4.9 trillion. but federal government spent 6.22 trillion under joe biden, that is 1.38 trillion dollar debt. 1.38 trillion. added to the debt. between 2021 and 2031, a 10 year period. biden will increase debt over 10 years by 6 trillion dollars. more than projected before he came into office. from 2024 to 2033 biden's borrowing causes interest costs to increase to stunning 10.2 trillion

dollars. justin rift. ov-- interest over 10 years, and incrisis public debt 10 years, from 32.7 trillion to 50.7 trillion. that is in 10 years. think about that. biden goes out there and says, as does his spokesperson he cut the federafederal deficit by 1.7 trillion, every single fact checker, they are on the left, says that is a lie, that is the reduction as a result of covid spending, i told you he is including covid numbers for the base, the covid money is gone. that is he didn't cut anything. he is taking that because the congress has not reupped that money and said look at me, i ki cut debt more than

any president in history, think of this logically, he is spending more than any president, he creating yearly before kit -- deficit, and contributed to debt more than any there are president. and expanded programs like no president in american history and he claims to be cutting budget by 1.7 trillion when republican the propose a very modest cut to spending, oh, we'll lose education, and health care, and lose everything. just follow the man whose lie absurd. this is how a liar lies, he we have fact check,.org, a liberal quote: mark: biden said, if the republicans don't massively increase the debt ceiling,

they have increased a little bit, but they demand cuts, the guy said he cut 1.7 trillion, they are not proposing, that they want to slowly over 10 years reduce debt because we're headed for a debt wall. children and grandchildren will be broke. he said, do to you seniors social security cheksz wi checks will stop? really, social security does not need congress to authorize funds. social security benefits are considered mandatory spending, they are paid from the programs trust fund. the agency has funds to continue to pay benefits. so biden lies again. what about medicare? medicare has its own trust fund. it will pay physicians and hospitals out of the trust fund and reimburse them because, that is paid for from medicare trust fund. what else? what doesn't shut, fbi,

dea. didn'-- shucks, customs and border protection, transportation, security administrations. and department of defense. they don't close as a matter of law, where do they get that money from? in addition to trust funds that pay social security. medicare, also the v.a. it protected, veterans administration. they are protected too that comes out of other funds, medicare, social security, and v.a., protect, military is protected. that is what he keeps talking breminder america, in 1975 joe biden introduced a bile tha bill t to require. >> you legislation every 3 to 4 years to reauthorize social security and medicare, 1975. in 1995, he did the cam

same thing, a motion on the floor of senate to did the same thing, today he accuses republicans of trying to cut medicare and social security benefits, almost like joe biden enters the 18 is t senate and cottons up to racists and segregationists and talks about integration jungle. and then lectures the americans about white supreme vi besupremacy being greatest danger we face, a man, they throw back, warning us, we're nothing like him, in my view he is a viral liar. i will be back with victor davis hanson.

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mark: welcome back america. we have with us america's wiseman, i call him victor davis hanson. a senior fellow at hoover

institution. two of his resent books, the case for trump and the dying citizen, we just had the durham report released. it was thorough on abuses of federal bureau of investigation, it really set an example for what we don't want in an american stowsy toes -- then no commen comment. it said far from being a trump russian connection there was a hillary clinton russia connection, she was using should source he was

feeding at the brookings institute, run by one of her friends, he was introduces to steel through fiona hill, the basic story is they were fabricating everything in in the dossier, and dolan was trying to pass on rumorror rors and all made up, the fbi knew it was made up. and they continued to pay he might find and credibility. in case of steal they offered him a billion. -- million if he could

substantiate one point, fbi was knee deep in this, durhamming is they didn't of the to monetary hillary communication, they thought she was going to be president of the u.s u.s. they were terrified that they might do the same to them if she were in the white house, damning to the fbi and hillary clinton campaign. it is damning to the media. all out there. and nobody has refuted it. i think so enormous they think, let's throw it away. if we talk about it, it really shows that hillary clinton colluded with the russian government. and fbi knew about it and blamed donald trump who was

innocent. mark: look at tactics they used. no predicate for opening the investigation, they tried to plant evidence with fisa court by playing with an e-mail. changes the information there. they leaked information and worked with media, then they would take the reports and use it ass ever the evidence for war afternoon twawarrant. you could see the cover-ups, the fbi field officers said we have a problem with this, they said don't put them that in writing, we don't want to see that, and planning of information, leaking of information and cover-up. the idea that barack obama don didn't know anything was incomp hen

incomprehensible. they were leaking into the newspaper, barack obama had to do when his fbi and differedepartment of justice were doing, no. >> yes, john brennan told barack obama in a meeting in a cia briefing that hillary clinton's campaign was using opposition on substanceiated research against donald trump. he knew about it really damning report if you look at our directors of the fbi, robert mueller said under oath he didn't know what the fusion gps research firm was, or did he have any information or think of steel dossier, the twin catalysts for his own special investigation, and james comey is the person behind this. he oh orchestrated this, but when he was called in, to house intelligence

committee he said 245 times under oath, he had no idea. we go to third fbi director, andrew mccabe, hig he lied on 4 occasions to federal investigators, just about the leak that you were talking about leaking information that fbi was not interested in clinton foundation, they had reason to be and three of those times he was under oath. and then christopher wray denies all of this he turned fbi to a special retrieval service for the biden family, whether information about a gun missing in coordination with secret service or hunter laptop's they suppressed. if you have 4 of them over

two decades, i think there is something wrong with the fbi rather than individual personalities. they adjust to that water in washington, they swim accordingly. mark: when we come back, i want to discuss, what did we do about this. that has it stopped? given what is happening to american citizens, people of faith? former president. who is the leading republican potentially for president of the united states is the fbi through the biden administration interfering with its fourth election in a row, we'll be right back. my name is joshua florence, and one thing i learned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don't know what you're getting into, but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody.

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>> welcome to fox news live, president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy are set to resume inperson talks on raising the debt ceiling tomorrow after negotiations stalled over the weekend. the two spoke by phone today, while the president was returning from the g-7 summit in japan. kevin mccarthy said their conversation was productive did ybut both sides are still far apart. >> a ceasefire in suz sudan is start in a few hours, brokered by u.s. state department will last seven days and allow humanitarian aid to be delivered. this marks first time both

sides have signed a truce. more than a million people have been displaced. i am anita vogel, now back to "life, liberty and levin." ♪ ♪ i don't see where the fbi learned a damn thing or christopher wray has done a damn thing, when you consider victor davis hanson how the former president of the treated. also fbi with the attorney general sends a s.w.a.t. team to a former president's home that is unnecessary. i think they picked up where they left off, then what do we do about the fbi?

your thoughts. >> i think we have to get that leadership power out of washington. take andrew mccabe, he was suc supposedly one architect of collusion against donald trump. there is relationship with all of these revolving door fbi has, people make the necessary adjustments, i like to see they take the fbi lock stock and barrel and move it to kansas city or omaha, nebraska, away from the political media comp blcomplex or divide it up, some in doj, and some in treasury department or homeland security, we can't concentrate that much power in washington, d.c. with the

networks that people development he is a protege of mueller and tries to concoct a way to get a special counsel, he succeed and low and behold it is bob mueller his friend. it has too much power that is not accountable. mark: a lot of folks wind of in media too. for a period of time. then hired by universities. you have weisman, in my view a disaster, he is all over the media commenting on these things, they bring these people in, nsnbc, and cnn, who have their dna all over the place. just incredible, that gets to your point we need to get them out of washington. >> what you mentioned they get rewarded for lying, mc

cabe should have been disgraced, he lied 4 times and now a cnn come at the t commentator and john brennan he lied twice. once under oath, he goes over to msnbc and james clapper, he lies about the na -- high i he is rewarded with a consult ship with cnn, and comey himself, he leaks the private conver conversation with president. he leaks it, they get rewarded for i think committing felonies, lying

under oath to u.s. congress. mark: there is hillary clinton, one of the greatest liars in american history, in high vie my view, section to joe biden and biden family, but fbi has not curtailed their practices, i don't believe, that democrats have defended them on capitol hill, and interfered with investigations on capitol hill with thabo sefolosha to taibbi and others, they were targeting individuals and monitoring individuals, we have the fbi threatening parents with that memo that came from the attorney general. we have the attorney general and fbi going after pro lifers, not prosecuting people who are literally vandalizing churches and pro life facilities, people would say, maybe lady

justice, the finger is on the scale, i would say they througthrew it out. >> they degenerated to an arm of the progressive project. they ask in america, if fbi will investigate documents taken out of the white house or vice president's office, by retiring official would they try the t treat the democrat the same as a republican? will the fbi monitor our react to that in the same way they did to january 6, will they go after a pro life demonstration in same way they do a pro choice. everyone knows, the answer, it is not symmetrical, they have made a concentrated decision that the power in washington and the popular culture, media and universities, the

institutions the foundations the big money is all on the left. and they feel they have to tilt for their own profit and succeed and viability. we the people, we're the majority, they feel we'ris is -- we could yell all we want but they don't have the clout, the way they get away with it they call us antipolice or antifbi, we the conservative traditionalists that were from traditional support of fbi, irs and pentagon we wanted big defense budgets and national security, we were the ones that promoted fbi, and yet they turn and say, you know, you people are insurrectionists or white supremacists, the institutions made a concerted decision they will

error on the side of progressives, feeling that is more useful to their democratic agenda,. mark: the common them is the democrat party behind the whole damn thing, a corrupt total terayon -- tote tal arian party, they were running interfe interference for the fbi, the fbi is doing their dirty work, the fbi is an apen administration aparty in my view, thank you very much victor davis hon son. >> thank you, mark. mark: we'll be right back.

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mark: welcome back america. good friend of mine, former

federal prosecutor, u.s. attorney for utah, bret tolman of the tolman group. bret, we see what fbi has been up to, that is no good. the way they targeted trump. i believe they are still targets trump, i don't think they learned a damn thing, dogi don't think they care, but there is the other side, cover-up, protect you sho protection, durham said in his report that is what happened to hillary clinton. i'm arguing it pretty much what is happening today, idea there is not a criminal special couspecial counsel appointment under what already occurred, shell companies, foreign money pouring in. you see these acts by biden helping communist chinese, nobody is investigating, not even a u.s. attorney.

if you saw this, what would you do? is there anything you could do? >> mark, thank you. >> it is quite a moment in history to watch this in real-time. seeing this. i can't look at what is happening with the bidens without having in my vision what has gone on been exposed in durham report. you have on one side the vice president and president of the obama administration and head of cia and fbi and doj, all conspiring to make a hoax look like a reality on the russian collusion investigation. then you have same agencies and many of same people making what is really corruption and real crime out to be a hoax. they are doing it while in front of us. as u.s. attorney, i would have indicted this case

gains the bidens long ago, and indicted immediately hunter biden to putin credible pressure on him to expose the full level of corruption that is at stake. everything i have seen, from the shell corporations that can't define what their businesses is to movement of money, money laundering and tax evation. the bread and butter of what fbi and doj investigated 20 years ago. mark: what do you believe that media not only dismiss it or attack durham or james comer, they that lay its out, lack of curiosity in case of joe biden they say, we want to see the connection between joe biden and this money. why the hell do they think that communist chinese and romanians were giving money to family members, because

of the biden name. and you conduct an investigation, right? to determine the extent to which there is corruption and also to force perhaps joe biden to testify or at least provide answers to written questions, they forced trump to do that with the mueller phony investigation. no? >> you are right. but what is staggering is those in media, those pundits and formers, the they come on and articulate there has not been a connection to joe biden himself, that is false. this is sufficient evidence to present this to a grand jury and get an indictment. you have connected that money has flowed into the company and out of company and joe biden participated in receiving that money. you have already a whistleblower who came forward to the fbi and

exposed the connection to biden and chuck grassley requested the documents, it is reliable. that is in. that is information a nonpolitical doj and fbi would have utilized to expose what may be one of the greatest episodes of corruption our government has seen in history of the this country. mark: yet the fbi, christopher wray, who strikes me as either way over his head one of the dumbest guys to be fbi director or controlled by his unde underlings. on the take by foreign governments. last time i checked fbi is not in the constitution. but congress has an oversight role, not a phony demand for tax returns, as you said, a whistleblower

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mark: welcome back america. we're here with brett tolman, former u.s. attorney for state of utah. what you say is convincing. if you were a u.s. attorney, you would have brought a case. and work dh worked that case. but we have a u.s. attorney in washington d.c. he was hyper interested in january 6, and hyper interested in documents. and prosecuting those folks. why isn't he hyper interested in this, you are telling he could do certain things without approval from gare land. garland. >> this is haunting for me,

out going u.s. attorney said don't cedrerkde authority and power to washington, d.c. you are nominated by attorney general, he cannot fire you. it was a powerful statement. it i think one of most important things to facilitate my independence. that is not the case any more. my predecessor was present in that advice, it slowly happened over last couple decades, the u.s. attorneys are losing their independents, which is very important, because the founders of the constitution knew that centralizing that power in dc would be the most dprus thi dangerous thing. that is what happened, and u.s. attorney there and u.s. attorney on biden hunter

biden case, they have ceded their authority and their ethics and moral compass to washington's dc gravity that to me is offensive and it should suggest that congress needs to clean this up and maybe only one that can. >> u.s. attorney is nominated by the president not attorney general and confirmed by senate. they serve at pleasure of the president. so despite what practices may be the last couple decades, you are making the point it important, that u.s. attorney in washington, d.c., i believe graves. he has his own authority to act, he does not have to sit around and worry about criminal division or u.s. attorney office or attorney general or anyone else has to say, to open an investigation. at a minimum and bring an indictment, correct?

>> that is right. he has that authority, i will tell you something else that i learned relative to this. the out going u.s. attorney, at the time of january 6, had identified a very small number of individuals that should be prosecuted. and indicated to doj that was his intention. they forced him out. because he did not have the same vision that they did in terms of what they would turn january 6 prosecution into. i think about that. who they put in, in their place it is someone that will you to ttow toe the line, and that is the greatest injustice we have, we see they will make decisions and use their power to based on politics, rather than based on the facts and evidence. which would result in a lot of people being prosecuted and put in jail, including

the biden family. >> that is powerful. i suppose if donald trump set up 20 shell corporations with money coming in from communist chinese, and that money spread to his kids and grand kids this would be a national scandal. but in the case of the biden family it is a blip, receiving no attention, we're supposed to rely on federal law enforcement and protect us from corrupt officials. you were a u.s. attorney, i was a schive a chief of staff this a break down of law enforcement at federal level and a disgrace. brett tolman thank you for your input. >> thank you, mark. mark: we'll be right back.

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welcome back. if you add me as a chinese but the fascists under putin, use their tax authorities to protect powerful people and probably have, if they shut down investigations of politicians and others who they support, if they cover up vladimir putin and presidency, if they were attacking free speech on social media and the free exercise of religion, if they were attacking the peaceful assembly of people who were protesting, pro-lifers, if they were attacking. speaking out about the way their kids are being educated. if they were interfering with the next election so called they

would have in china and russia, what would you say? you would say wow, what a bunch of totalitarians. department of justice fbi democratic party today. we'll see next time on life, liberty, live-in ♪ is expected tonight big farm about to unleash another opioid epidemic shocking details coming up later in the show. but first the scandal that's already been unleashed. the fbi attack on our democracy. that evening evan walked up to the next revolution live from new york tonight. we know for sure under these minute james comey his deputy andrew mccain the fbi interfere in the 2016 election to help hillary clinton hurt donald trump at one of the trumpet russia collision investigation was