bill mcgurn from the "wall street journal." ford o'connell and aaron allison and russell murphy. p attorney general bill barr wants the military at the border to fight drug cartels. critics say far left democrats went off the rails on the d.c. weak on crime bill calling it a betrayal. ron desantis is going to barnstorm california and other blue states. this report, did the white house really go soft on hunter biden's russian business associates? i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. welcome to the show. stocks up on a tech rally. the 10-year yield dropped to 10%. amazon pausing construction on its second headquarters in arlington, virginia. because of high innation potentially hitting consumer spending. thanks so much for joining us, rebecca, thanks for coming on the show. has the president apologized to you for politicizing the death of your two sons from fentanyl poisoning? and our hearts go out to you, rebecca, it's a terrible tragedy. >> no he has not. i saw his press secretary yesterday say he showed empathy when he was giving that statement, yucking i

were back to bill mcgurn, alicia finley and kyle peterson. l, would he think of ron desantis' decision on disney, the merits of the politics. >> on the merits, it always makes me leery when politicians intervene in business. that said, disney has no particular right to self-governing that property. and when you play politics that is a risk you entertain. i think they were very high-handed in their actions in florida and they got called on it. i think the politics at least for now or probably good. desantis can say he stood up to a corporate bully and put them in their place. i do worry where we will go forward in terms of how we might treat other businesses is that we worried about, bill? >> yes or in terms of how other people seeking to imitate, make a political decision about a business. i think you have to be very careful about that. even when they misbehave. look, a lot of jobs in florida depend on disney. they contribute a lot to the economy. does not mean they should get away with what they were trying to do, attack the law. i just think

former speech writer bill mcgurn standing by with analysis but first aishah hosni on capitol hill this morning. >> good morning to you, dana and bill. democrats and republicans get back to work this week and china is front and center. this week alone democratic senator mark warner and republican whip john thune will get together and introduce a broad bipartisan piece of legislation that will be able to ban foreign technology. that could include tiktok. >> what worries me more with tiktok is that this can be a propaganda tool to basically videos you see would promote ideological issues. if you look at what tiktok shows to the chinese kids, all about science and engineering versus what our kids see there is a radical difference. >> we're watching several china-related hearings this week as bipartisan calls for action grow across issues like the fentanyl epidemic, the possibility of china providing russia lethal aid and fact that biden's own department of energy concluded the covid virus likely originated from a lab leak. >> millions of people die around the world. billions of economic ha

bush bill mcgurn. thank you for joining us, gentlemen. the cargo reigns are manufactured in china and represent roughly 80% of the ones we use here at u.s. ports, so china's dismissing all of this while americans are very concerned, christian. >> china always dismisses this , always says it's paranoia , always says we have a mindset when it comes to concern about espionage and cyber intrusion and things like that and almost inevitably it turns out that those who are concerned or right, this was the exact same playbook they used when the previous administration and frankly a bipartisan consensus in washington became concerned about huawei in the previous decade, that's the chinese telecom company sort of like if you rolled apple and the nsa and qualcomm into one, and as it turns out that company was very much part of the chinese spying apparatus, so all of the software and much of the actual technical hardware that drives these cranes ought to be suspect, whether or not it's collecting data today that the chinese are using, or whether it's

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also "the five" co-host jessica tarlov and bill mcgurn columnist for the "wall street journal." good with this skyline bill, let me start with you. the "wall street journal" saying it's a bailout. where do we think it ends? is the end already here. >> we think we don't know where it ends. that's a problem. a we don't know how to price these things. we talk about holler hazard. the government some way backing something make people more reckless. now we have new type of moral hazard where we are backing things we didn't know we were backing like unsure deposits. i think it can go anywhere the answer is always more regulation. do more of the same and hope people that miss this will catch the next thing president biden doesn't do anything at 9:00 a.m. and came out at #:00 a.m. to sure up america's banks. >> apparently a night owl. nobody knew it. >> bret: did they do enough fast enough? >> i think got through the weekend and got through the day where does it end? we actually don't know. politically where it ends could be very interesting as well. because i think there is or -- this i

bush, he is bill mcgurn, and ej antoni, fellow with the committee to unleash prosperity. ith, first to you. the federal reserve announced it will probe itself, admitting this was an oversight failure, what happened with silicon valley bank. why didn't it catch it? what was going on here? >> well, if i knew why they didn't catch it, we probably wouldn't have a problem. but i think that speaks to an interesting facet of these problems. every couple years we have failure of regulation. you know, i'm old enough to remember when the solution was supposed to be cod the-frank, you know -- cod-frank, you know? -- dodd-frank. and every year, every time this happens today come up with a new plan, and then we have problems down the line. but the regulators' credibility is never questioned. we still leave it to them. elizabeth: right, so -- >> it is beyond me how ec fail so often -- how they can fail so often and yet retain their credibility. we know that. but the regulators never seem to have their authority key the marijuanad. elizabeth: so, ej, barney frank says you can't blame tru