it does not argue. i say go for it. but erotic? that is going a little far. stimulating, is, because i do all the talking. i actually am going to look for an oak tree after the show. >> rachel: i'm not sure about ecosexualism. it is super twisted. >> julie: i identify as a branch. >> rachel: she sounds very -- i'm going to pray for her. >> julie: the giving tree, that was sweet. they fell in love with humans by a tree. great lovers, i guess. >> rachel: julie, we love you. >> julie: i love you. >> rachel: that is all for tonight. all right, that is all we have tonight. thanks for joining us. i guess make sure that you watch from the kitchen table podcast. stay tuned for julie. sean hannity is next. ♪ ♪

>> sean: welcome to special edition of hannity. i'm patient safety it's in for sean. we hope you are having a wonderful christmas season. we begin with that is back in 2004 during the testimony to the 9/11 commission, lisa rice said "the terrorists were at work with us but we were not yet at war with them." now a dark chapter of american history is repeating itself thanks in part to president joe biden. every week, there are and more attacks against our troops abroad. on christmas, three american service members were injured. one critically after a drone attack in iraqi. biden did order a retaliatory strike against the terrorist facility. but so far the response has been extremely limited. there have been more than 100 attacks against u.s. troops carried out by iranian proxies. since the beginning of the war in gaza.

a conflict start by hamas' barberic october 7th attack against israel. and it is now ongoing because hamas refuses to agree to a permanent or temporary cease-fire. of course, none of the cease-fire now people on the left seem bothered. in fact, the new york times just published an op-ed from a hamas terrorist. the mayor of gaza city. you could not with reaction, the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe. thank you for that joining us but i had the pleasure of joining with you in the united states congress but it -- i'm thrilled to be chatting with you about this. yeah, you saw the top level intelligence of this country. what is your read on what is going on in the middle east now because we take 100 attacks and do bare minimum to say the le least. >> yeah, jason, by the biden administration's own admission,

they have failed to accomplish the strategic determine -- determines that a promise. you remember when these attacks that you just mentioned started in the aftermath of the october 7th attack in gaza, the biden administration stood at the podium, john kirby, secretary of defense austin, they said, we will respond in a manner and method of our choosing but we promise you that we will deter these types of attacks from happening in the future. will, at that time, they were at 20. now as you said, jason, we are well over 100 attacks. and jason, the attacks you mentioned yesterday were from hezbollah. but the week before, they were from the houthi rebels and of course, hamas did not just kill 1400 jews, they took about a dozen american hostages. so the biden administration is running out of terror cells to get pushed around by in the middle east and all of those groups that i just mentioned to jason, they are all controlled

by, funded by iran and what is so frustrating when you talk about, in there the intelligence that i have seen is the end of our restoration, we handed the biden administration peace in the middle east. we handed them the abraham report and we had them an iran that was bankrupt. that was incapable of finding these type of terror activities. you know, they were focused on regime survival alone. and they did not have money for the houthi, hamas, and hezb hezbollah, the names that have now become household names of all the wrong reasons in the biden administration because they have failed to accomplish strategic deterrence against our adversaries. >> jason: well, the polling is certainly -- has certainly gone sour for joe biden. i don't see anybody really in the united states thrilled with how he is handling this and, what is your read of that? why is that? it does not seem that anyone is happy with how the response has been going. >> and i think lot -- like a lot

of his foreign policy decisions, they have been schizophrenic. in this case, he has expressed support for israel verbally but then he is paraded one official after another to meet with netanyahu and other israeli officials to pressure them to in the campaign against hamas in a matter of weeks. something that our own intelligence tells us is impossible. this has got to continue to destroy hamas' campaign that is going to have to last for months and yet he is asking the israelis to do the impossible. as a result, he is engaged in a policy that is making no one happy. people think he is supporting hamas too much. and only few people think he is getting it just right. and i think this is unfortunately something that we have seen throughout the administration. it is not is here in the middle east. jason, i would challenge you to find a place on the globe where u.s. national security interests have improved in the biden administration and where the national security interests of our enemies and adversaries have weighed.

it is certainly not to release. it is not asia where china has pushed us around the league it is not europe, where putin has now invaded ukraine and troyes while biden has been in the white house. it is not in central and south america, where we are currently seeing what is currently being referred to as the biting invasion of our southern border. so everywhere in america sees, they see it freyler from the biden administration from a foreign policy standpoint. in i get that bidenomics and the domestic policies but a disaster but i would submit to you as the former director of national intelligence that their foreign policies have been a greater failure. >> jason: let's talk about that because now we have secretary mayorkas, victory blinken headed down to mexico to talk with the mexican government. i don't know what their message is. the only policy i see out of joe biden and kamala harris is one of open borders and an invitation to come to this country because nothing is going to happen to you if you come illegally. we will give you a plea -- free plane ride, a phone and we will give you housing and everything

else. that is what i see them doing. i don't know what to were they going to ask from the mexican government. >> well, and, you know, lopez obrador, the president of me mexico, you know, he sees what is happening around the world. and the idea that he is going to do with the biden administration asks the without the threat of imposing some cost on mexico that they can't sustain is just not going to happen. looked at the end of our restoration, we had a secure border and we had mexico enforcing their border because we had to remain in mexico policy. jason, and our transition, we told the biden administration if you reversed this policy, you're going to create a crisis at the border. you are going to have these caravans coming up. that is exactly what has happened. to he created this crisis at the border and it is not going to go away unless they are willing to impose costs on mexico like we did in the trump administration. but they have not been willing to impose sanctions or costs on any countries to get them to do

the things that the united states need to for our own national security interests. >> jason: that is right. whether it be the middle east, in china, down in mexico, we speak a language that nobody is understanding because we don't stand up for ourselves. we don't stand up for the united states of america. we act like a second-class citizen that is just going to let everybody else roll right over us. and i'm tired of it. i think the american people are tired of it. and listen, i appreciate your perspective and the great role you play. the former director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, joining us tonight out in texas. thank you so much for joining us. all right, whether biden realizes it or not, the world is at war. in crimea, ukraine just blew up a large russian warship. as that conflict rages on with no end in sight. meanwhile, israel is now paddling iranian proxies on multiple fronts. other iran backed proxies are targeting cargo ships all over the region.

on saturday, terrorists struck a ship off the indian coast within -- with an unmanned aerial vehicle. is as iranian scientists have reportedly increased the rate of uranium enrichment as they get closer to achieving a nuclear bomb capability. meanwhile, the pacific china continues to threaten america's allies while biden does nothing. and get this. the administration tried to conceal last february's chinese spy balloon encouraging where they tried to save china from embarrassment? joining us now with reaction of the former national security advisor of former president trump and ambassador robert o'brien. thank you for joining us on hannity. we went through this with john ratcliffe. he served armin. and -- hat and gloves with him. but let's start with china because china is on the march. they are not threatened by us. they are not worried about what the in nine states i do because they see biden doing nothing

else around the world. >> you are absolutely right and john ratcliffe is right in his analysis. look at the the maximum -- it is true. and weakness in foreign is provocative. when we are weak, our adversaries take advantage of us. you are seeing that with iran, hamas, russians, and now the chinese and what is very disturbing is we just learned that xi jinping and -- is meeting with president bright and in san francisco which, i mean, san francisco clean up for a couple days. that was nice for the people of san francisco. but he told biden flat out, we're going to take taiwan and there's nothing you can do about it. very disturbing message and something that we are not responding to. >> jason: well, let's talk about iran because if you go over to the middle east, iran is has blocker they are behind hamas. they are behind the who who see.

they should be a feckless terrorist group that we can take care of in a moment's notice if we had the political will to take care of it but it is all -- correct? >> it is and the houthi's would not fire a bb gun at a ship. and from gaza to israel, none of this would have happened without the iranians signing off. hezbollah killing and injuring our soldiers in iraq and syria. this is all for iran. but the most concerning thing about iran and we are watching the missiles, the iranian missiles right now on your screen, their nuclear program. and that is going to be, if iran gets a nuclear weapon, we will have real trouble on our hands. we need to avoid that at any cost. >> jason: well, that is the concern that the united nations watchdog group is now saying that unlike what they were doing

in the past which was slowing down their enrichment, they have sped it up. there are a lot of people that believe that they are moments if not inches away of achieving a nuclear capability which for the world's safety and security, and man, that cannot be anything worse than a iranian government with money and then the resources to deliver a nuclear bomb. >> i can tell you without getting into details, d. wayne's are very close. the doors and they are very [indistinct] delivery system, or our ships and red sea or the persian gulf. think about this, jason, if iran gets a nuclear weapon, what you think the salaries are going to do? the saudi's just paid a billion dollars to buy bill nixon and john robin and -- you don't think they will spend 10 times that much to buy a nuclear capability if their troubles ran at it? and what you take it egypt or turkey which has been fighting iran since before in the country was muslim, what do you think

they are going to do about it? we're going to have a nuclear arms race in the middle of the most dangerous part, dangerous neighborhood in the world. and it is going to be brought on because instead of putting iran in a box like jon to talk about adjacent to we had demonic bankrupt. the biden and mister she said, we have given up money if we [indistinct] turn a blind eye to sanctions and let them get rich again, there will be nice to us. they are not nice to. >> or not that into us. they are taking all that money to build a nuclear program. the former president of iran said that israel is a one bomb country. what you mean by that? we control all the jews in israel with one bomb because israel is a small country. scores smiled wide -- miles wide in length but that puts israel in danger. think about a future american president. if there was a crisis in the middle east, we want to send it -- a carrier group to the middle east. 5,000 sailors and pilots on it, might be a danger of one nuclear weapon from iran.

it could wipe out. potentially destroy and commit the ultimate genocide against israel. we are facilitating with all the resources we are giving them. >> jason: well, president biden and kamala harris better get their act together because they are not starting up from the united states of america. are not protecting the men and women who are actually serving us with more than 100 attacks. these little pin. -- you are not speaking the language the people would understand. ambassador robert o'brien, thank you for joining us on "hannity." i do appreciate it. according to one democrat, it is now ageism to criticize joe biden. will explain straight ahead. plus, new calls for brought in to drop out of the race because of corruption allegations. >> james comer will join us with more and later, we will show you how to left stole christmas as this special edition of

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♪ ♪ >> jason: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." the mainstream media likes to pretend there is no evidence joe biden did anything wrong when it comes to hunter's business deals. but now legal experts are warning the biden could be in serious trouble. law professor jonathan turley says that if joe knew his family was engaged in influence peddling, that he is corrupt by definition. and our own gregg jarrett thinks biden's misdeeds could even force joe out of the presidential race. more evidence welcome to light as the house impeachment investigation continues. and he could not with the latest on that effort is house oversight committee chairman james comer. merry christmas.

thanks for joining us. i want you to, you are my second favorite house committee oversight committee chairman there has ever been, just so you get that off my chest. >> i wish you work for "of the washington post" or something. [laughs] >> jason: that will never happen. but thank you. listen, one of the things that i just laugh about every time i sit here in the mainstream media, there's no evidence that joe biden has done anything wrong. but morning that has been thrown into the biden family business and all those around him without a product other than joe biden, is actually starting. when people ask you that question, how do you respond to them? >> i think most americans realize that something stinks here. most americans realize that we provided bank statements as hard evidence, statements that show the bidens have received well over $20 million from our enemies around the world. and they can't answer a simple question. what did you do to receive the money?

they also know that joe biden during the campaign, he never met with any of these people who send his family meant money and he had a wall between the government and his family shady business schemes. we know now because of our investigation that he said dozens and dozens of e-mails in a pseudonym to many of these business associates they won't turn those e-mails over as you know, jason. that is part of the evidence where we are continuing to seek to receive through this impeachment inquiry and we know that he communicated with every single person that he said he never met with. so the american people know something stinks here. and that is going to be a problem for joe biden moving forward. not only are his policies a disaster. but the american people think he is a crook. >> jason: go through the list if you will, just off the top of your head of documents and things that you are wanting to see that you have not yet been able to get your hands on.

>> broeker chris wright no, i think one of the most important amount of documentation that we need are those pseudonym e-mails. remember, no one knew about these hidden in e-mails until a few months ago. we found that joe biden is using at least three fake names on government e-mails. what we did not know until recently was that he was, in fact, using those pseudonym e-mails to communicate with not just his son, hunter biden, but also with his shady business associates. the politico, in the never ending defense of joe biden, wrote a story went to what has turned over 14 of these e-mails, which they did not even amount to half of 1% and said, oh, there's nothing here. these are junk e-mails. but what we learn from the indictment in california, several of those e-mails that joe biden used a pseudonym, were used as evidence against hunter biden and his failure to pay

taxes. so that is important evidence there. we also need to those depositions. there's certainly a reason that hunter biden is not wanting to come in and answer questions. but we have his bank statements and bank records. so we want to depose hunter biden obviously we want to depose all of the business associates. but we also need those pseudonym e-mails and we also have questions for the national archives. which countries were involved in the documents that joe biden mishandled? that is something that i think is very important in our investigation because we have identified jason, a couple of e-mails that hunter and send it to people in ukraine, for example, that we believe may have been classified documents that joe biden mishandled that were in possibly the garage of joe biden's house where his son was living. >> jason: anfernee, hunter biden not showing up before the committee with the deletion

subpoena, how soon do you think the house would actually move to hold him in contempt? >> i hope it is as soon as we get back. i think most of my colleagues will go home and they will spend time with their family. they will go to ball games. they will hopefully go to the grocery store. they will hear from their constituents and their constituents want to -- what is going on here. they want to know, is our president for sale? has our president been conspiring with our enemies around the world for millions of dollars that was sent to his family? this is not normal behavior. and the media can write no evidence, no evidence all day long. that is not going to change the fact that there's a lot of evidence. there are a lot of questions here that this family has failed to answer. and the media, you know, thinks that they can attack me or jim jordan and it is going to discredit this investigation. but poll after poll shows the majority of americans are keeping up with this. and they expect someone to investigate public corruption. they know the fbi has failed to do their job.

they know the irs has failed to do their job and they know that the department of justice has failed to do their job. so the only entity that is left up there is house oversight committee. thank god the republicans won the majority and we have subpoena power. we are using that to subpoena power in a disciplined and transparent manner to try to get the proof to the american people about whether or not this president is compromised. >> jason: chairman comer, thanks for joining us on "hannity." merry christmas, and happy new year. appreciate it. already got one of president biden's biggest challenges next year will be holding the support of young voters. they think he is too old, not liberal enough, and not mentally fit for the presidency. some even say he keeps the schedule of a relaxed retiree. right on cue, joe will soon head off to st. croix in the virgin islands for end of the year vacations since he has had a rigorous a few years at camp david. yes, another vacation.

climate is our john kerry has a new label for all of biden's young critics. they are just ages. but it is not biden's age that is the problem. it is his clear cognitive decline. washington examiner put together this look back at some of the worst moments in 2023. have a look. >> president biden: profound loss, pandemic, we mention, over 100 people dead. 100 empty chairs around the kitchen table. $300 million. and by the way, with other movies and movies she has earned the global -- golden globe and primetime "enemy." that is me. primetime emmy. you can say even it is harder than getting a ticket to the renaissance tour or brittany's tour. it is kind of warm in brazil right now.

vladimir putin -- it is hard to tell. i said i would cure cancer. why cancer? because no one thinks we can. that is why. and we can. we can end cancer as we know it. god save the queen, man. [cheers and applause] >> jason: you could not with reaction are fox news contributor joe concha and posterior lee carter. all ready to occur joe carver hooser a lot of criticism of joe biden and he does not like it. he does not like it. he just thinks that it is being misreported along the way. >> isn't that amazing and the president very easily and free christmas -- merry christmas, by the way, he can call a press conference tomorrow if he so chose and take questions from reporters for an extended period of time and make his case. if he has a problem with the

press in terms of worry -- the way they are covering his administration and his presidency, then take questions. donald trump and his final year it took 35 solo press conferences. he conducted 35 solo press conferences. joe biden has had three solo press conferences this entire year. are not very good at math. i'm sure that means that donald trump had 12 times the number of press conferences than joe biden has this year when donald trump was exiting in 2020. and the criticism quite frankly has little to do with age from my perspective, having written one of those books and other research that went into that. we have a commander-in-chief who has been a serial liar his entire life. and he has been wrong at every major foreign policy issue his entire adult life. that is what former defense secretary during the obama/biden administration and the -- said about biden. on every major issue and we can

attest to this. this president to this administration is underwater in terms of approval to tyty proportions, on everything when we talk about crime, when we talk about the u.s. southern border which is an absolute hot mess and it comes to part with no end in sight and now we are fighting two proxy wars that are costing hundreds of billions of dollars also with no end in sight. when every major issue, he is struggling. you could blame age but this has been joe biden his entire life in terms of failing upwards all the way to the presidency, jason. >> jason: so lee, i think a big part of this is the fact that his policies have been failing. i don't think he has ever defined what bidenomics actually is. and he is upside down as joe said on all these different issues. but lee, from a younger generation's perspective, they are getting their news from social media. they are looking at it from a different lens than maybe i am. what is your read of how they are thinking about joe biden and

how they are viewing joe biden after three years now? >> the amount of approval that he has lost among young people is really staggering. and to see some of the polling that comes out now that say that young people prefer donald trump to joe biden is really overwhelming because it was young people and minorities that really carried joe biden into the white house and it is not going to happen again. he can't depend on it. and i think if anything, is going to that joe biden really needs to learn is he cannot be dismissive of the polls. he is dismissive of people saying that they feel like he is too old, 76% of americans think biden is too old. eight in 10 americans feel like the economy is personally impacted them in a negative way in the last two years. he issue after issue, immigration, he is under water. so many different issues and all he keeps saying is the economy has never been better. he answered by saying, your reality is wrong and that is one i think that he is not going to be able to overcome because one thing is for certain.

americans want a president who feels like they are attached with what their situation is. bill clinton very famously once said, i feel your pain. and it really, it resonated. we want a president who is in touch with the american people. and many people more than 60% of americans right now say donald trump is more likely to address the issues of concern than joe biden. so he has got some major issues he has got to deal with. his policies are underwater on every measure. >> jason: so joe, i think it is important about joe biden's ability to negotiate, negotiate and teleprompter, stairs, bicycles, and anything else he has a camera on him. i don't think he is able to negotiate those very basic things. i think it is an embarrassment. >> kaysen korth is the most protected, most homogenized, almost hidden from the past president that we have seen in our lifetimes to my point around the number of solo press conferences that he has.

and here's the thing. his handlers are petrified to put him in any situation outside of a teleprompter outside of any protected area where he has to actually speak extemporaneously and speak off-the-cuff because you see on your screen right now, what happens when joe biden is not on script. and i don't know how any american, i don't care if you are a democrat or republican, independent, can look at this and say that this is acceptable. it is not. and here's the thing. he is not a fine 1 to adjacently. he is not going to get better with age. think about this version of joe biden for or five years from now in 2028 if he is still occupying the oval office. i'm sorry. that is not something that people are comfortable with and if he steps down, if he did win a second term, then you have president kamala harris which is an even worse prospect to many americans, given what we have seen from her on the biggest

stage. so that is where we are at this point and it is not a good plays, jason. >> jason: lika very quickly, we only got 15 or 20 seconds but kamala harris, she is not going to -- she is not a really good backstop for joe biden to fill in. >> but her approval rating is one point higher than joe biden. she came at 35%. there's that little bit of a difference there. not much. so real challenges. there's no doubt about it. >> jason: joe concha, lee carter, thank you so much for joining us. all right, coming up, far left pro-hamas rioters tried to cancel christmas on the streets of new york while other agitators marked the holiday by harassing republican lawmakers with so-called swatting att attempts. pam bondi and brett dolan will weigh in after the break. stay with us. ♪ ♪ oof! that was fast. mucinex. available on doordash.

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♪ ♪ >> jason: not everyone was feeling very mary for christmas yesterday. large groups of anti-israel protesters took to the streets in major cities. the biggest disruptions came in new york where radical demonstrators tried to drown out christmas carolers and marched through the streets, chanting, christmas is canceled. there were also protests in the washington, dc area outside of the homes defense secretary lloyd austin and national security advisor jake sullivan. i'm sure the neighbors loved that. and two republican members of congress, madry taylor greene of georgia and brandon williams of new york were the victims of christmas day swatting incidents where callers try to get local police to send their swat teams to their homes through. emergency 911 calls.

here with reaction our former florida attorney general pam bondi and former u.s. attorney brett tolman. pam bondi, thank you both for joining us on this christmas. i hope you had a wonderful one. i got to ask you, as former attorney general, you know, you have the right as an american citizen to peacefully protest. but some of these protests just because they become so unwieldy and so -- they become violent. they become aggressive. they break the law in many instances. but i don't see the type of law enforcement that is there to actually "these types of things. again, you could protest. but when you turn aggressive like this, it goes over a line. >> yeah, jason, it absolutely went over a line. these are rioters. and by looking at that video, i mean, it was horrible what was happening to the great men and women of the nypd and, you know, president terp had been in

office, federal authorities would have been out there to back them up and arrest these people. sadly, nypd, they just don't have the resources. i think a handful of arrests were made. but anytime someone touches a police officer wrongly, or goes after someone who is out there singing christmas carols, they should be arrested. these people wanted to -- they wanted to cause a problem. and you know, are the ones who have their faces completely covered in my opinion were the biggest cowards of all. most likely the palestinian youth movement of these college kids who cannot even articulate why they were out there. >> jason: brempt, it does not -t persuasion. it seems to be about intimidation. some would say it would be even a form of care terrorism itself. trying to go after people and yet, again, how do we find the right balance here? they can protest but what they have done, it just seems like it isn't so over the line and it is not about's persuasion.

>> yeah, jason, it started a long time ago. we have created this mess. and when i say we call law enforcement and a lot of our large cities that allowed protests to become violent. the riots that occurred over the last few years in which we did not come with swift and immediate and decisive action. if you give them to and in fact, jason, in parts of this country, they have charge police officers who were trying to police out of control writing. now, that is where we are at as a country. what message are we then sending to those that hate the united states, who have issues with our policy in israel. or who have any reason to be angry and upset, we have given them a license to go down and do these things and it is the innocent people that live in these areas that are now going to feel more and more hopeless because the law enforcement cannot respond when our

political leaders have sent the message that it is okay to act like this in this country. >> jason: yeah, pam, expand on that because you are right. police officers have not help to those -- heaven help those police officers. imagine what it is going to be like on new year's eve. but they are not backed up. and they are not backed up by prosecutors that will actually enforce the laws. there's no consequence to any of this. >> there's not. and, you know, he referred to swatting. that is when these people are falsely, fraudulently using law enforcement officers as weapons. they are calling 911, claiming that there's a government and a representative's home and so the swat teams are deployed and that is so incredibly dangerous for the men and women in law enforcement. so they have to do everything in their power to catch these people. i think they need to toughen the law on the swatting work and they sent out swat teams because it is so dangerous for law

enforcement citizens could get killed as a result of it and that is those they feel empowered because there are no consequences anymore in this country. law and order is no more in this country. and i feel so sorry for the great men and women of law enforcement who on christmas day had to go out and deal with t this. >> jason: brett, marjorie taylor greene, it has happened to her ate times now and yet, you are telling me the fbi can go in and go figure out who in the world is doing this and go identify them and prosecute them and go after them? >> well, jason, you know, decades ago, we had troubles, you know, tracking down calls. we had to go through very archaic system of trying to identify who was calling when. guess what. we don't have that in my. you can identify who is calling very quickly. and you can do so without a lot of trouble. so a times, unacceptable.

and pam is absolutely right. this is a -- this is not just a prank call. this is an actual potential life-threatening situation that is occurring. there are protocols that law enforcement has to use on a felony response. but they. but they have to have lethal weapons with them. but they have to be on guard. they burst into homes that are justified using no knock warrants. and what happens as a result, we know the breonna taylor situation. we know the at the situation. they are doing this on purpose to go after a conservative that they don't agree with their policies. >> jason: yeah, and the other thing is that they are taking away from another call that may require a true actual rapid response. pam bondi, brett tolman, two of the best. thank you for joining us tonight in on "hannity." i do appreciate it. americans are extremely unhappy with joe biden's handling of the economy and this weekend, the president was quick to pass the blame for his unpopular

policies. david asmond and kaylee mcghee white will join us next on this special edition of "hannity." ♪ ♪

>> jason: welcome back to special edition of "hannity." it is no secret president biden's had in of is extremely unpopular. but according to joe, the biggest problem is how the media is covering it. take a look. >> reporter: what is your outlook on the economy next year? >> president biden: all good. take a look. start reporting the right way. >> jason: a recent fox nation -- fox news poll found that only 14% of americans think that biden's economic policies have helped them. joe biden's popularity continues

to sink just in time for the 2024 election. meanwhile, his vice president is not doing his campaign any favors. watch this. >> every election cycle, we talk about this is the most election of our electronic. lawrence, this one is. i have been fortunate and blessed during the course of being vice president have many situations where it becomes clear to me that there are you know, people of every age and gender, by the way, who see something about being the first that lets them know they don't need to be limited by other people's limited understanding of who can do what. >> jason: oh, there we go. here now with reaction, fox business anchor david as man and restoring american editor for the washington examiner, kaylee mcghee white. the clarity that comes from our

prvice president, really do appreciate it. you are reporting on the news of our economy. joe biden just thinks it is, you know, improper the way the national media has been covering him because everything is going so well. >> yeah, he is trying to kill the messenger. but the message is very clear and americans know it, that bidenomics is not only killing the economy, it is killing the american dream. personal income, when you judge it by the time that biden took office until today. personal income has been hit hard by inflation. it is way down. personal debt, by the way, is way up. mortgage costs, that really does define the american dream, the ability to buy a home, has almost doubled. it is up 90% from the average monthly payment on a home $1,700, was $1,700 a month when biden came into office. now it is $3,300 a month. that is a 90% increase in

mortgage funds. it is the same if you buy a car with some kind of credit or you buy -- whether it is used or a new and credit card debt, if you are unfortunate to have any credit card debt that you are paying as much as 29% for your credit card debt and that is up to $1 trillion. that is how much americans owned and credit card debt. i mean, it is just out of control. democrats and republicans know it. >> jason: kailie, i don't think that joe biden has ever actually defined what bidenomics is. he talks about, well, if it is a good result, that is bidenomics but he has never really defined it. as best i can tell, it is, it is more government, more spending. but other than that, i mean, how would you define what bidenomics is. >> bidenomics means the crippling of the working and middle classes. that is what it is. in a summary and i will tell you what. even biden knows that his economic policies are a failure. you want to know how i know

that? because he just gave his own federal employees a 5.2% pay raise to make up for the fact that inflation is eating into their wallets as well. and think about what that means for a second. that means that the people who have helped implement biden's disastrous economic policies are the only ones who actually get to benefit from it. because we, the american taxpayers, get to then pay for their pay increases. that is bidenomics in a nut nutshell. >> jason: and david, one of the fastest growing sectors in the jobs numbers are government jobs. i mean, i look at where we are - the fastest growing sector is and it is more government. that is not going to make the country better. >> you know, it is not only government. it is services that involve the government to a great extent like healthcare. healthcare and education. those are up as well. but all of those require the government. and what they want to do, this is the socialist ideal. they want to turn the private

sector into the government sector. and they are doing it right now. it is a frightening process. but of course, the green energy programs, we have not talked about it, trillion dollars in green energy spending. we have had a great year for the stock market. stock market is up almost 20% in 2023. but the one sector that is failing for you know what that sector is? green energy. if you are stupid enough to invest in green energy cutting -- thinking, the government was going to find it all, it can't because it is not working. so great energy is a failure. it is just everything the government touches turns to the opposite of gold. i don't want to say it on tv, but that is. >> jason: so kailee, david talked about it. a trillion dollars that americans have taken on in credit card and consumer debt. i mean, those numbers are hard to get away from because you are paying upwards as david said, 20% off -- oftentimes trying to get out from under all that massive spending. so i don't know how you turned the corner on that.

but you got to reduce the amount of money that the government is spending. >> absolutely. and this is why biden is lashing out at the media, because he realizes that there's no amount of expense that can make up for the reality that americans are on the ground facing. we have mentioned the credit card debt. we have mentioned the high interest rates, the high mortgage rates. there is another data point that came out of that homelessness has hit a record high. hundred the biden administration. americans across the board are suffering except for really the upper class. it is the middle class that is bearing the brunt of this. it is the lower class that is bearing the brunt of bidenomics. and those are the people that biden seems to have the least amount of sympathy for. essentially what the bidenomics message is is stop being poor. >> jason: well, i got to you, when you pour millions of people illegally into this country, they got to get housing. and if you don't think that that is affecting the price of housing in this country, that is a big, big issue. david asman, kaylee mcghee

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