of bad policy. if then, we venture into deep blue cities where independents are fed up with high crime, drugs flowing through the wide open border and sky-high inflation. portland a pot bed of antifa -- hot bed of antifa -- christine drazan is here this morning to make her case. then, mitch mcconnell cutting out trump-endorsed candidates, but the polls tighten anyway as even alaska's ranked choice has not stopped candidate kelly tshibaka. lisa murkowski on shaky ground despite mc mcconnell's money along with general don bolduc on his advances, a special senate hopeful panel is here live. plus, the man democrats are really worried about -- >> seems to me he's a celebrity who wants to be a politician. and we've seen how that goes. [cheers and applause] maria: texas senator ted cruz on the democrats bringing out the big guns, barack obama, one week before the midterms as he goes all in for herschel walker, campaigning for herschel walker in georgia this week. the texas senate this morning on the issues that matter. plus, the chinese communist party inside the gates of america as another democrat staff orer is exposed for doing the work of the chinese embassy. who else is aiding and abetting the c or cp's goal to overtake america? california representative darrell issa on congress' role in allowing the ccp to gain ground. it's all right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ maria: and we bin this sunday morning with the balance of power in congress at stake in just nine days. president biden and democrats will face a referendum from voters on the direction of the country from everything from out of control inflation to record numbers of unvetted migrants crossing into america through the southern border. the latest fox news power rankings has republicans winning control of congress with 233 seats which will most likely give my first guest the power of the gavel as speaker of the house. joining me right now is house republican leader california congressman kevin mccarthy. congressman, it's good to see you this morning, welcome. >> thanks for having me a back on, maria. maria: so how are you feelingsome i know you've been campaigning, crisscrossing the country, how do you peel about the midterms now a week away? >> i feel very good about our candidates. i think they are one of the best recruited classes we have seen. the number one issue out there right now is the cost of living. you watch it in everything these families are struggling from the price of gas to the grocery stores, and now we have halloween coming, and with this biden inflation candy is up 13%. so people want to tee a real change, and -- see a real change, and that's exactly what we promote. we have a plan with the commitment to america, we're very clear exactly what we'll do if we're trusted with getting the majority. it's going to be competitive. no one gives you a majority, you have to earn it, and that's what we're out doing, earning it for the rest of the american people to make sure we put america back on a new track. maria: well, that's what many people want, a new track. you mentioned the lineup of new faces that are present on the gop right now. a lot of these candidates doing well in texas, certainly, like mayra flores. talk to me about that lineup. who are you most excited about, and what should we expect in terms of change and new faces? >> well, you can look anywhere. i'll be up in washington, i was in oregon, you look at lori chavez, exciting former mayor of happy valley running in oregon, there's a number of seats to play there. i will be down in texas. it's not just mayra flores, it's cassie, monica de la cruz. you look at the excitement we're having from juan ciscomani in arizona, rhode island, connecticut, we have candidates across this country that really understand we need an economy that's strong. we've watched what the democrats have done with one-party rule that brought us inflation. even their own party, larry summers, former secretary of the treasury, warned them not to spend that $10 trillion to create inflation, you know? and steven rattner, the economic adviser to obama, calls it the original sin of inflation and we watch the pain. to put our energy back on track, to make us energy independent, lower the price at the pump so people can fill up their car but also have money left over for food as well. these are things that we'll tackle at the very beginning with these candidates across the country. maria: you know, we have been talking about inflation but also crime has been such an important issue for people. people are afraid to go outside their house, and now we see what has taken place in the pelosi family. our thoughts and prayers are with paul pelosi right now. do you have any information about how the speaker of the house's husband is doing right now after surgery? >> well, let me be perfectly clear, violence or threat of violence has no place in our society. what happened to paul pelosi is wrong. having heard it, i reached out and called the speaker. she was on a plane back for her husband, so we were able to communicate by text. she did say that the surgery went well. i wanted to convey that our thoughts and prayers were with her and her family and paul and we hope for him a speedy recovery and that we're able to stop this crime across our country. maria: yeah, it's really -- >> of course, this person is deranged and others -- maria: yeah, it's very concerning. what can you do about all of this? you're talking about inflation, you're talking about crime, i know you've released your commitment for america, to america, rather, but tell me specific plans that you've got in place to get in place after the midterms and turn this situation around. >> you'll find in nine days we're going to roll out on the very next day things that we need to start happening then. you've got to curtail the runaway spending to curve r curb can in-- curb inflation. opening up leases, greater production, you've got to take away the discouragement for people to work to get the supply chain and the productivity back in. these are all pieces of legislation. but on that very first day, we'll repeal these new 87,000 irs agents. i think government should be here to help you, not to go after you. it's the fundamental. but the part about crime, you've got to secure your board and, maria, you've been on the fore front of education, educating america what's happening down there. from people on the terrorist watch list, fentanyl that is now killing our next generation of americans, and it's in every single community. you've got to secure that border to start out with. you've got to stop defunding the police. and you've got to find that these woke prosecutors, we're going to rate them so the entire society knows what they're doing based upon are they upholding the law, because we know small crimes create very big crimes. and we're seeing it ravaging across this country. i'll be in washington state later today. you're watching these blue states, washington, oregon, new york, connecticut and others, why are republicans rising in new hampshire as well? i think it's these policies that people are looking for some common sense, and it's not just republicans, it's independents and democrats. and you're watching new people joining this party. and the expansion of this party in the hispanic communities across this country, this is a real opportunity to take your country back and put us on a path where the next sent arely will be ours. maria: and that's why you're seeing people put their money where their mouths are, they are concerned. you've been able to raise record numbers in terms of new fund raising in the third quarter, more than 20 million, but also overall for the republicans how do you allocate that money right now, congressman? >> well, we tray to go to the very best places, places we have the greatest competition. and we're playing in places people didn't think. think about in new york, lee zeldin. you see that crowd that he had last night running for governor. he's lifting all boats in new york with giving them the opportunity and hope that he'll make those streets safe again. you look at mike lawler running against sean patrick maloney. that is a competitive seat. but we need more resources to be able to compete in all the places we're playing in. so if anybody wants to join us, go to take the house.com, and you can make a real difference because i believe there are seats that people have not looked at that are becoming competitive in these last nine days. all -- we don't have to have the most money, we just need enough to get that message out. so if you go to take the house.com, join with us to change your nation. maria: well, the audience and viewers are also concerned about this moment in time that we find ourselves in where the chinese communist party is gaining ground. i know you've talked about an investigation into covid-19 and what took place there. we understand now an aide to a democrat congressman, don buyer, was fired after working with the chinese embassy setting up many -- meetings for congress and ccp members. tell us about your investigations and how you're going to deal with oversight as well as the obvious issues such as inflation and crime. >> well, maria, you've been on the forefront of this. i've watched your special before. it's not just that china wants to have people inside congress and others,st it's what they're doing to our industries. and this is nothing new. remember, the driver for senator feinstein for almost a decade was a chinese spy. we've learn about eric swalwell, an individual, a congressman who sits on the intel committee, he could not get a security clearance in the private sector, but the democrats have given him the biggest security clearance to all of our secrets even though the chinese spies have been in part of his office for years. this is not something new. so we're actually going to create, if we get the opportunity to be in the majority, a select committee on china. we're going to look at every industry that china has tried to take control of. we're going to look at where china has been stealing our technology as well, but more importantly we want to find where the origins of covid began so it never starts again, how did that happen. but we want to make sure we bring the supply chain back from china. that's another way that we make our economy strong. let's bring the jobs to america. maria: yeah. >> and when we become energy independent instead of us depending on other countries, why wouldn't we want the rest of the world dependent on our energy? the world would be safer and more secure at the same time. maria: yeah. >> we're watching what the chinese are doing in the halls of congress, that has got to stop, and it will in nine days. maria: all really good points. of congressman, it's good to see you. thanks very much for become here, house minority leader kevin mccarthy, thank you, sir. the impact of the defund the police movement by democrats being felt nationwide as major cities are seeing a sharp rise in violet crime. democrats in one state could face the loss of the governor's mansion for the first time in nearly 40 years. christine braise zahn is here on how she plans to bring law and order back to the pacific northwest. that's next. ♪ no, he's seizing the moment with merrill. moving his money into his investment account in real time and that's... how you collect coins. your money never stops working for you with merrill, a bank of america company. maria: welcome back. crime is spiking across the country, and it has become one of the main issues on the ballot in the midterm elections. in the wake of democrats' push to institute cashless bail across the country. in oregon, for example, under democrat governor kate brown, violent crime has increased 28% from 2016 to 2021 according to the fbi. brown has been criticized for her handling of the portland riots back in 2020 when the city saw approximately 170 days of unrest from may 29th to november 16th. now oregon may be on the verge of electing its first republican governor in nearly 40 years. gop candidate christine drazan is leading her challengers in the latest trafalgar poll. joining me right now is oregon republican gubernatorial candidate christine drazan. christine, how are you feeling about this race? >> we are energized and excited. governor januaries have stood with me -- oregonians have stood with me throughout this general election, and they are asking for change. maria: well, there's a three-way race here. give us the ins and outs of what's going on. is it largely a democrat electorate? >> absolutely not. our electorate is very, very purple. we have, as you would expect, a state that has a strong kind of rural and urban sections of our state, but what we have in oregon is much more purple than you might be led on through the years in democrat control of the governor's office. oregonians are ready for a change. 40 years of democrat in the governor's office has failed our state. it's led to, as you just mentioned, an explosion of crime. in portland in particular, 207% increase in a 2-year period in homicides. poem in that community want mory want more police on the streets, they want to be safe. they want their kids to be safe when they walk to school, they don't want to have to worrily about homeless camps. -- worry about homeless camps. they are demanding better, and i am here to turn our state around and stand with oregonians across the political spectrum to lead our state in a new direction. maria: so what do you hear from independents then, and what are you going to do about it, christine? tell us some of your plans should you win the governor's mansion. >> yeah. i have christine for oregon.com, the road map for oregon's future. it is my plan to help turn our state around. it starts with a homelessness state of emergency. if you have had the opportunity to come to our beautiful state recently, you'll see that homelessness, in fact, has gotten out of control. my opponent, tina, he authored legislation to legalize tent cities. that has created an experience of homelessness in oregon that's different than other places. it has made it less safe. we have open air drug markets. i have committed to work with the legislature to send out a measure to repeal ballot measure 110 that we should never have made the decision to legalize hard drugs in this beautiful state. it's having devastating effects on families and communities, and we've got to reverse it. i will support law enforcement, i will lower the cost of living in our state, and i will stand with families as they demand better from our schools. and as we raise expectations, are restore graduation requirements in our schools and help kids get back on track after, frankly, one of the longest covid shutdowns for schools in the nation happened in oregon, and oregon students suffered because of it. oregon families across the political spectrum are demanding better for themselves, for their kids, for their families whether or not it's claim, affordability or education. maria: well, it's a great point on education because our kids have been at a disadvantage as a result of those two years that kids got left behind. what specific measures can you put in place to help students and to make families feel more confident about their kids in school? >> yeah. in oregon they made the terrible, terrible decision to lower our requirements to graduate. we must restore those graduation requirements and show that students that are preparing to graduate and enter the work force or college are, in fact, they've shown that they are proficient in core subject matters. so i will restore those graduation requirements, and i will fully fund the interventions that it's going to take to get our kids back on track. oregon students need to read by third grade, we need more school choice, more access to charter schools and magnet schools. we need open enrollment in oregon. if we have a failing school, parents need to be able to make the choice to make a different decision for their child to make sure that they can succeed. maria: yeah. all right, great points. we will be watching. thanks very much, christine drazan, oregon gubernatorial candidate, we will be watching and see you soon. up next, the temperatures are dropping across the country, and prices are skyrocketing to keep the heat on. republican senate candidate kelly tshibaka of alaska and don bolduc of new hampshire are here next. stay with us. ♪ ♪ all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work, helping them achieve financial freedom. we're providing greater access to investing, with low-cost options to help maximize savings. from the plains to the coasts, we help americans invest for their future. and help communities thrive. maria: welcome back. temperatures are beginning to drop across the country, and it will be costing you a lot more to heat your home this fall/winter due to president biden's attack against fossil fuel companies. year-over-year fuel is up. when you look at oiling, up 58%. natch natural gas is up 3 3%. and electricity is up almost 16%. last week the energy information administration reported hat u.s. only had 25 days of reserve diesel supply left, a low not seen in 14 years. joining us right now to examine the solutions to biden's self-inflicted energy crisis is alaska republican senate candidate kelly tshibaka and new hampshire republican senate candidate don don boll duck. general bolduy, let me kick it off with you as the bind has an all of government approach to its climate change agenda and that includes pushing could be the fossil fuel industry. -- down the fossil fuel industry. >> well, thank you, maria, and it's an honor to be on the show, and my best to your viewers as well as it is great to share this time with kelly. you know, it's all about heating and eating here in new hampshire, choices that moms and dads and retirees who are getting sec jobs are wondering what they're going to do particularly with the natural gas shortage and the diesel shortage and the rationing. it is just creating huge problems for people, and it's only going to get worse if we don't win the senate and get kelly and i down there to reverse all of the energy policies and the focus on going away from fossil fuel which drives our country to be able to heat and provide the energy that we need, drive down electric prices, drive down the inflation across the board. this is something that senator hassan will not change. she is status quo. she proved it with bringing cory booker up here and jill biden. she is not going to change. she is going to reinforce the biden administration's failed energy if policies where kelly and i will go down there, and we will work and do what we needed to do to reverse them so that people aren't freezing and don't have to choose between heating and eating up here in the granite state. maria: yeah. and you've been closing in on maggie hassan. kelly, you as well closing in on your opponents. what are the issues you're hearing from independents and voters today, kelly? >> thanks so much for having me, maria with. i'm actually joining you from valdese, alaska, the community at the end of pipeline that brings all of our oil from the north slope down so it can be shipped out. and that's exactly what we're talking about. i've knocked thousands of doors across the state. the number one thing i hear is inflation and jobs. we've lost over 25,000 jobs in our oil and gas industry across this state, and those jobs haven't been refilled since the biden administration, there's a lot of policies coming from d.c. that shut town our industry. the main way is through deb holland, the radical call environmentalist who's the interior secretary. biden's making good on his promise to shut down on our fuel industries, and it was lisa murkowski who cast the tie-breaking vote for that nomination. my mom got a job with with the slope at the start of the pipeline build, and that changed everything for us. i believe energy policy isn't just d.c. policy anymore, it's or worker policy and family policy. it's personal now. many doorsteps don't want to talk about politics, but this year it's personal. our race is the closest race in the nation, many polls say it's tied 50-50, and it's also the least expensive which is why it's been flooded with money from the power players in d.c. trying to buy our senate seat, but alaskans are rising together to make our voices heard. i'm confident we're going to win, and viewers can help me at kelly for ak.com if you want to see a change in these backwards policies. maria: energy policy is national security policy. you've got joe biden now depleting the strategic petroleum reserve. we're at the lowest levels since 1984. he's selling oil out of the petroleum reserve as a way to keep energy prices down, gasoline prices down. obviously, that's not a policy. do you worry about a depletion of the strategic reserve? if. >> i'm absolutely worried. and we all know that this is just an election ploy. it's not actually policy. and it's coming at the expense of workest and -- work workers and families. we don't need to crush workers and destroy families. we could put alaskans and americans to work. they killed anwr and the keystone pipeline on day one of the administration, and instead of putting americans to work so they could have oil and gas cleaner and green orer than these oh countries were, or they're instead is draining our strategy strategic petroleum reserve. that's not only bad policy, that's dangerous. maria: i want to get into ranked choice in alaska but, first, general, i want to get your take on the money part of this. we know that mitch mcconnell is holding the pursestrings, deciding which candidate he wants to back and, of course, he has been putting money in your opponent's campaign. certainly, kelly, your opponent, lisa murkowski. how important has this been? has this hurt your campaign, general? >> so, you know, those decisions are made outside of, you know, my purview and outside of my influence, and i would say, no, it has not because what happened is this is a grassroots campaign, and we have had record-breaking days in terms of fund raising for our campaign. grassroots-style. here in new hampshire and many other places across the country. so, you know, people want change, and it's indicative of the fact that the establishment is not what people want. whether it's republican or democrat, does not matter. and people have gone to don bolduc.com and have given. we ask them to keep doing that because we are able to put out the ads to counter the lies and the, you know, the narrative that is hurting granite staters and americans that the democrats are pushing. you talked about strategic reserve. it's now $88 a barrel. it was 24 under the previous administration. it's going to cost three times more to even come close to, you know, to even start -- maria: yeah. >> -- recovering while we are, while we're hurting across this country. so this is bad. bad, very wad. maria: kelly, what about that on the money in terms of mitch mcconnell's supportsome tell me about your opponent. lisa more cow can sky has often been that deciding vote on important legislation -- murkowski. >> that's right. in our race it's the power players of d.c. versus the people of alaska, and i think you're hearing that from the general too. that might be the race across all of america. murkowski is often the tie-breaking vote that just helps the establishment. she votes 80% of the time with joe biden. and when the mcconnell money pledge came in, she said to mcconnell, you've always been there for me, mitch, i'll be there for you. it is a disgusting exchange of favors by the establishment at the expense of the people of alaska, and that's what we're rising together to say you can't buy our senate seat for your partisan interests when you don't care about our future. so we're happy to have support from across america, but it has been a fight, maria. it has been more campaign dark money from the lower 48 if d.c. establishment in our state than murkowski and i have spent combined in course -- our campaigns. that's a lot of money. so, again, kelly for ak.com if people want to help. maria: real quick, this ranked choice in the journal, kim strassel calls it a scam. do you think it's a scam? >> we know that more cow can sky's allies and campaign team put it in place so she could try and secure her senate seat. she'd be out of the election by now if we had a normal campaign. but we can still win, and we have a good strategy, and i'm actually confident we will. maria: all right. thank you so much to you both. we'll be watching, and we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ maria: welcome back. now corruption in plain sight. the latest on the investigation into hunter biden and the biden family influence peddling. senators chuck grassley and ron johnson providing the u.s. attorney leading the criminal probe into hunter biden more than 200 pages of bank documents which are, quote, relating to the biden family's connections to the chinese regime and persons connected to its military and intelligence elements. joining me right now to examine the very latest developments is senator ted cruz, a member of both the senate judiciary and senate foreign affairs committees. the senator is also out with a new book titled "justice corrupted: how the left weaponized our legal system." senator, thanks so much for being here. >> maria, good morning. great to be with you. maria: for two years you've been calling for a special counsel to investigate what has gone on with the biden family and all of this money taken in. what can you tell us about the hunter biden investigation and where you see this going? in well, the evidence of corruption is now becoming overwhelming, and we've seen in the last month the biden department of justice actively leaking that it intends to indict hunter biden. and i have to say those leaks are troubling on three different bases. number one, the the president of justice shouldn't be -- the department of justice shouldn't be leaking anything, that is against the law. they're playing politics, they're not engaged in law enforcement. number two, the substance of what they've leaked is that they're looking at hunter biden for drug offenses and tax offenses. now listen, by any measure hunter biden is a keeply troubled soul, a soul who has struggled with addiction his whole life. what is concerning about their focus on the drug and tax issues is that it is very carefully walling off why this is a matter of public concern. if hunter biden was just a regular guy who struggled with addiction, it wouldn't be a matter of public interest. the reason it is a matter of public interest is there is significant and, in fact, overwhelming evidence that hunter biden was actively involved in official corruption with his father, joe biden, and that involved both ukraine and the natural gas company burisma that paid hunter biden $83,000 a month when he spoke no ukrainian, knew nothing about oil and gas and his father was actively doing favors on behalf of the oligarch who was paying hunter biden and likewise china, communist china paying hunter biden and his family over $5 million including 10% for the big guy, joe biden. and the fact that the biden dc oj is saying, oh, this is a drug matter, don't pay attention to the big guy, don't pay attention to the corruption, just make it one poor person struggling with addiction, that's highly concerning. and the third reason this is very troubling is i think all of this is a prelude to doing what joe biden and merrick garland want to do is indict donald trump. and they want to sea look i -- say look how even-handed we are. that is politics not law enforcement. maria: well, this is just really well said. it's just extraordinary to me that we're supposed to trust the commander in chief on the decisions that he makes regarding our number one adder is share, the chinese communist party, and yet he has taken in all of this money, he and his family. i've said it from the start, this is a joe biden story, not a hunter biden story. >> yes, yes. maria: because it was joe biden that they were trying to sell here. this is a very dangerous moment. how are we supposed to trust that his decisions are not compromisedsome. >> well, we can't trust that, can it's why, as you noted, i've been calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor. you mentioned my new book this came -- that came out this week, "justice corrupted. " it goes this particular and describes how starting under barack obama, barack obama began using doj and the fbi and the irs and the cia as political tools, as weapons to attack their political enemies. well, when trump became president, those hard-core partisans burrowed into senior career positions at those agencies, and they waged war against donald trump. both personally and against his administration. and now under joe biden, they are out in the open. and urn joe biden, this is the most political and the most corrupt department of justice we've ever seen. we see the fbi storming president trump's home at mar-a-lago. that's never happened in the history of our nation. we see fbi agents storming bro-life -- pro-life activists, machine guns drawn, at the crack of dawn with their children crying. and i've got to say, merrick garland has done more to undermine and damage the integrity of the department of justice than any attorney general in history, and that includes john mitchell, nixon's attorney general, who resigned, was prosecuted and went to prison. merrick garland is doing even more damage, and this book, "justice corrupted," explains how, and it walks through chapter and verse exactly what's happening and what we needed to do to stop it. maria: well, thank you for writing book. our viewers are very concerned about this, senator. and you're right in terms of what we have seen take place. look at the russia collusion lie that was made up from a operative on the clinton campaign. you think this politicization of all of these agencies started urn clinton and barack obama -- under clinton and barack obama then. >> well, it really got bad under obama. and if you look at -- and that's what the book walks through. it walks through the irs scandal where the obama irs targeted tea party activists, conservatives, constitutionalists, pro-life activists, pro-israel activists. the book walks you through the meeting in the oval office on january 5th, 2017, barack obama was there, joe biden was there, the head of the doj, the fbi and the cia was there. donald trump was getting ready to enter the presidency, and they sat there and agreed we're going to launch. the federal government to go after donald trump, we're going to weaponize it. it has has never happened in the history of our country. this explains what happened in crossfire hurricane, how corrupt it was, including a senior fbi lawyer literally creating a fraudulent document and submitting it to a federal court. he's been convicted but, of course, he got a slap on the wrist and served no jail time. it also walks you through the lawlessness of the left's attack on law and order on the black lives matter and antithat riots across the country, on the george soros d.a.s that are letting violent criminals go. and those d.a.s are now senior officials in the biden justice department. this is profoundly dangerous. the good news, maria, we're going to have republican majorities come january in both houses, and you're finally going to see some real congressional oversight of the fbi and the cia, and it is desperately needed. maria: well, amen. look, you could be the chairman of the senate commerce committee. that was my next question, do you think the senate will take the majority, the gop will take the majority? you've been on a 17-state national bus tour. what are you going to do about it, and what are the most important races do you think will be the clinchers? >> yes, i think we're going to take the majority, a big majority in the house, 30, 40, 50 seats. in the senate i think we win between 53-54 seats. i think we've got a great chance to win in nevada, georgia, i think we've got really competitive races in arizona and new hampshire, and i think we've got a real shot in colorado and washington state. all of those are in play, and i think we're winning in all of the vulnerable states. i'm very excited. when we have the majority, you can expect aggressive, real leadership and oversight. maria: okay, thank you, senator. good to see you. we'll be right back. ♪wi ♪ th and talk about some risks. with type 2 diabetes you have up to 4 times greater risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. even at your a1c goal, you're still at risk ...which if ignored could bring you here... ...may put you in one of those... ...or even worse. too much? that's the point. get real about your risks and do something about it. talk to your health care provider about ways to lower your risk of stroke, heart attack, or death. learn more at getrealaboutdiabetes.com maria: welcome back. new evidence of the chinese communist party's efforts to infiltrate america and to continue its theft of american intellectual property. fox news has learned a democrat congressional staffer in don beyer's office has been let go after it was found she was working with the chinese embassy to set up meetings between congressional leaders and ccp members the try and shape policy in washington. this after much infiltration through hunter biden and the biden family's influence peddling while joe biden was a sitting vice president and sitting senator. democratic congressman eric falwell and his relationship with fang fang. former secretary of state mike pompeo told us recently this is all a serious national security threat for america. >> this problem is insides the gates. they're telling american citizens of i chinese heritage we have family back there, be careful, we know where they are. this is what authoritarian regimes do. maria: joining me right now is california congress congress congressman -- congressman daryl issa. of it's good to see you this morning. thanks very much. can you explain to us what is going on with the ccp and why it has been able to infiltrate our government so significantly? >> well, they've been able to do it because they've had willing partners, you know? beyer is a former ambassador, he's been well briefed on china's attempted to infiltrate, and he should have known better. you know, at the end of the day you have to assume, sadly, that if somebody has family in mainland they that, that they're compromised. if you're a student from china, you're compromise. if you're going back to china, you're compromised. and yet again and again you see that. and we've been, you know, we've been warned that it's an active effort, we've been warned that they're likely to use all of this, if you will, cold war tactics. and yet time and time again you see members of congress and others falling for it. perhaps they're falling for it and perhaps they simply don't have their guards up because they're not worried about iran, russia, china, but they should be. maria: yeah. what about hunter biden and the biden family influence peddling? you've released an e-mail recently from hunter biden's laptop which basically showed jim biden lobbying the qataris. we know how much money they've taken in from the chinese communist party. it might be much more than that. we know the money he's taken in from burisma and also from russia. what is going on with the9 biden family influence peddling that we don't know? >> i think the one thing that we, we're not focusing on is when it's the biden family getting money, they're all for natural gas, they're all for working with people around the world that either want it or want to supply it. and then, of course, you know, the rest of the time they're against natural gas and they're trying to destroy destroy the ability to make it. what's amazing to me is that they simply sold out too cheap. we're talking about 5, 6, 10, $15 million. this is really peanuts to a trillion dollar economy like china and, quite frankly, the qataris didn't bite, but they certainly had a hard sale attempt by the ccp and hunter biden. maria: will we see any accountability for all of this influence peddling? >> after january 3rd we expect to hold them accountable including, as ted cruz mentioned, we need that special prosecutor, and we need him badly. maria: hold on one moment. quick break and then i want to ask you about the revolution underway in iran. we have yet to hear from the if administration against the iranian concern to assist the iranian protesters and against the regime. we'll talk about it next. stay with us. r r maria: welcome back. i'm back with california congressman darrell issa. congressman i want to get your take on twitter owned by elon musk and i believe general motors is deciding if it's going to continue advertising. it claims it wants to see what this company is. >> well, it's interesting, you know, after general motors was owned by the government, they've been the best advertisements for anything that the biden administration wanted including their so-called green initiatives. but it is interesting, you know, general motors has less than one-tenth the market cap of tesla, and yet they've decided not to be with a free speech advertising. and perhaps it's because they don't have a good with product to advertise. what's interesting though is that twitter is now letting both sides, including those who denounce twitter and denounce musk, have a forum to talk, and that's what it was supposed to be. maria: yeah. >> so i'm looking forward to seeing a lyely debate on both sides on twitter. maria: we know the fbi called facebook and said, you know, watch for disinformation. they censored the hunter biden story right before the 2020 election, and that's why much of the public does not understand this influence peddling. >> that's what's going to stop now on twitter, they're not going to take calls from the white house to shut down information just because somebody wants to call it misinformation. you know, if you want to call it misinformation, get up and call it misinformation, but both sides need to be heard. fair and balanced, if you will, maria. maria: yeah, or that's right. congressman, i've got to tet -- get your take on iran. there seems to be a revolution underway. women in the streets, protesters in the streets not just in iran, but also in berlin. look at this picture, 120,000 iranians taking to the streets in berlin to denounce the supreme leader. we haven't heard a word from the administration. are they with the people or with the iranian regime? >> you know, for more than 30 days the iranian people have been on the streets protesting, in some cases being killed or beaten. and there's been complete silence because this administration wants their nuclear deal which they're negotiating with russia at a time when russia, china and iran are all using drones to kill ukrainians. it's -- maria: wow. >> -- one of those strange things where it's a real battle, and we're not showing up. maria: congressman, thank you so much. good to see you. that'll do it for ♪ ♪ u. howard: we'll look at some cable hosts trying to blame their favorite target for the brutal attack on nancy pelosi's husband. but first, the debate between fetterman and oz was painful to watch and reminded me of two weeks ago when carb rah burns interviewed fetterman in person and shared this observation. >> we did find that in small talk before the interview without captioning, it seemed it was lift for fetterman to understand our