elizabeth: well, you're certainly right there, ken blackwell. you've been terrific tonight.our insight. it's great to have you on. >> good to be with you. elizabeth: it's good to be with you. just ahead, staying on a story e we've been working for a number of years now, former top fbi officials admitting behind the scenes they did not have evidence of trump-russia crimes or crimes involving michael flynn. but when trump asked james comey to go easy on flynn, that's when comey leaked to the media to get the two-year mueller probe launched. we asked simply why. the hill media reporter joe concha sounds off on this one. ♪ ♪ >> president obama and biden spied on my campaign. it's never happened in history. if it were the orr way around, the people -- other way around, people would be in jail for 50 year right now. that would be comey, that would be brennan, that would be all of this. ♪ ♪ every time a fund manager sells a stock it triggers a tax liability for you. and the higher the turnover the more you have to pay in taxes every year. and here's the worst part, because of high

fascism, is that so as not to distract from what's going on in democrat-run cities in let's talk to ken blackwellth you. as a former mayor and a former undersecretary of the u.s. department of housing and urban development, let me just tell you this. the democrats want to make this a referendum on the president, and so they advance false narratives and they hope that americans shut their eyes and close their ears, you know, to what the reality is. but this is going to come down to a basic choice between whether or not we want the rule of law and safe neighborhoods and streets or whether we want chaos and disruption. and that means choosing between cities that are fields of dreams versus cities that are killing fields. and as you just said in your remarks, there's tangible evidence that the body count is going up, and most of these urban cities that we see on tv, and what we also are realizing is that there's destruction and there's -- of property. and there's no way that you're going to get the capital infusion that you need to grow the city, create e jobs, put people to work and build livable ci

with us, black voices for trump advisory board member, former cincinnati mayor ken blackwell.barr says this is quote, an organized assault on government and civilians of the riots going on. 1people killed in riots since they began. we're on this, another top democrat says and tries to claim these are just peaceful protests. but watch this the democrat mayor of oakland, california, libby schaaf is not saying, no, they're not peaceful at all. texas congressman brian babin with us, on asking this question, when will elected officials step up and govern and stop this mobthis is not about . this is about keeping people safe. former top border official tom homan with us, on u.s. border officials warning this is a growing new development. drug cartels are now exploiting u.s. unrest in major u.s. cities. also the covid-19 pandemic. as they are now pushing massive amounts of drugs across the border as cartels are setting up shun in u.s. cities now in turmoil. thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome tote show. you're wat