Futures. Im maria bartiromo. Breaking news as the u. S. Responds to irans aggression. Iran launching a direct attack on israel, over 300 missiles and drones launched with israels iron dome knocking down 9 of the attacks, inter 99 of the attacks before they arrived in israel. Coming up, the speaker of the house, mike johnson, on the next stepses as a lawmakers expect to the vote on a Security Package for israel and ukraine this week. The speaker is here exclusively on israel, ukraine and the u. S. Border. Then, former director of National IntelligenceJohn Ratcliffe on the dangerous global backdrop under President Joe Biden. Plus, senator rand paul is here on the response in the senate and the covid coverup. Why 15 federal agencies were aware of Gain Of Function Research being done at the wuhan lab in china before covid leaked and spread across the world killing millions. Plus, tomorrow is tax day in america. House ways and Means Committee chairman jason smith on why the irs is auditing the middle class. Plus, the heat is on President Trump with Jury Selection beginning tomorrow for a trump trial in new york. Professor Jonathan Turley with analysis of two different applications of the law. Its all right here, right now on Sunday Morning futures. If. If. If. Maria and we begin this Sunday Morning with Breaking News out of The Middle East following irans unprecedented hourslong attack last night on israel. Iran launched hundreds of drones, ballistic and Cruise Missiles forward israel with toward israel with israels military saying its air a Defense System fended off 99 of those attacks. The pentagon says American Military forces assisted in the defense of israel, or intercepting dozens of missiles and drones originating in iran, iraq are, syria and yemen. Iran claims the attack is in retaliation for a suspected israeli airstrike nearly two weeks ago on an iranian diplomatic building in syria which killed two top generals. Meanwhile, President Biden signed off on renewing a waver for tehran, allowing the ayatollah to continue to have access to 10 billion in frozen funds. Joining me now with reaction is the speaker of the house, congressman mike johnson. Mr. Speaker, thanks very much for being here this morning. Hey, maria. Great to be with you, as always. Maria how does this change your plans this week in terms of voting on an aid a package for israel . Well, weve understood the urgency of this from the very beginning. I mean, a few days after i became speaker way back in october, we passed our israel support package. Its been sitting on Chuck Schumers desk ever since because we included a payfor, as you remember. What a concept. We took from the irs expansion slush fund to pay for the pry priority. We tried it again about a month and a half ago, a clean israel many democrats, 166 as i remember in the house voted against. Why . Because President Joe Biden said he would veto that. So the House Republicans and the Republican Party understand the necessity of standing with israel. Were going to try again this week, and the details of that package are being put together right now. Were looking at the options on all these supplemental issues. Maria the former president , President Trump has talked about the possibility of turning aid for ukraine into a loan. Is that what youre considering . Yes. You know, or i had a great visit with him on friday, and he and i have 1 100 united on these big agenda items. Hes introduced the Loan Lease Concept which is an important one that i think has a lot of consensus as well as these other ideas, the poe repo act, which is seizing the assets of corrupt Russian Oligarchs to help pay for this resistance. I think these are ideas that i think can get consensus. Well send our participation well put something together and send it to the senate and get these obligations completed. Maria are you expecting the Biden Administration to respond to irans aggression . Well see what happens. Look, i do think that we showed resolve last night, thankfully. Many of us were concerned about that, just standing with our ally israel. Its critically important to do that. We took down most of those drones and missiles, as you noted, and our other allies stepped up as well. Whats important right now is we stand with israel. We should not be dictating what their policy is, we certainly shouldnt do what Chuck Schumer did, suggesting they should have new elections. Theyre fighting for their existence, and its never been more important for us to be there with them. Were resolved to do that. Maria understood. This weekend you were with President Trump. The former president had a public show of support for you and your agenda. Heres President Trump with you on friday. Lets take a listen. Its not, not an easy situation for any speaker. I think hes doing a very good job. Hes doing about as good as youre going to do, and im sure that marjorie understands that. Maria and, of course, hes referring to Marjorie Taylor greene who has threatened to come up with the motion to vacate because shes upset that the republicans have yet to secure the border. Heres the georgia congresswoman with me two weeks ago here. If Speaker Johnson really wanted to secure the border like he promised all of us he would and promised the American People, then he would have told Chuck Schumer we will not pass any Government Funding bills until our border, our border and funding bills have the h. R. 2 in it or the laken riley act. Or at least some measures within them. But with he didnt. He completely failed in that. Maria mr. Speaker, why bring a bill to the floor to send money to ukraine without having secured the border . So, maria, what marjorie fails to notice is that we have been fighting on the border. We fight on it every day. We passed our comprehensive border Security Package, h. R. 2, at the very beginning of this congress. Its been sitting on Chuck Schumers desk. We passed these acts out of the house, and they get stopped in the senate. See, the open borders democrats control the senate and the white house, obviously. So weve not been able to have a Law Making Exercise to meet that critical objective. But were fighting every day. Thats why weve been demanding that President Biden use his Executive Authority to seal that a border. President trump reiterated that demand at our Press Conference together on friday. We need the white house to step up. In the meantime, congress has to fulfill its obligations. If we had shut the government down, maria, in that appropriations process, that would have been on us. Remember, the white house controls the pain thats inflected on the American People when the government shuts down. Imagine tsa agents not being paid and flights being canceled for americans, Border Patrol agents not being paid and those open borders, the responsibility being shifted to us. Imagine troops not being paid at this dangerous time. That simply wasnt an option for us. It would have reflected badly on us and would not have been helpful in our mission to grow, keep and grow the house majority, win back the senate and the white house for President Trump so that we can save this country. Thats whats at stake right now. The party is 100 united on that agenda. Maria so is there any path to securing the border under joe biden . Well, thats the thing, he has section 212 authority under federal law. He has seven or eight different options, existing authority to do, frankly, what President Trump did. President trump got control of that border because he was a strong leader. So weve been demanding the white house in all of these negotiations, do your job, secure the border. Maria, you and i both know 9 million encounters potentially at the southern border since joe biden took office, 2 million gotaways, 340 plus is suspects on the Terrorist Watch List. The actual number we believe is probably 16 million illegals have come into this country, and they did it intentionally. Its unacceptable. The republicans in the house, the Republican Party, President Trump all of us are lockstep united, fighting for border security. Its the number one priority for the American People because our own National Security begins at the border. Were going to fight for it every single day. Maria did you speak with President Trump privately about what Marjorie Taylor greene is doing . I spent hours with the president on friday. He and i talked frequently, many times, usually in a week we have a long relationship. Hes 100 with me, and he said well get this job done. Thats a distraction. What marjories done with the motion to vacate is not helpful for our party, for our mission to save the country. Because if we dont go the house mate, keep the house majority, win the senate and win back the white house for President Trump, were going to lose the republic. You know, maria, we often say the next election cycles the most important one in our lifetime . Everyone knows this is for all the marbles, the American People are fed if up. President bidens open borders, with his inflation, The Cost Of Living and the Out Of Control spending, the weakness on The World Stage and the weaponization of the government, we have to stop it. What we need to do right now, and we will be are, our party needs to stay united. We need to go out and tell the American People how well be different. Not just what were against, what were for for, how were going to turn this country around. Im absolutely bullish, i think were going to do that. More speaker, is President Trump also with you on fisa . They spyed on his campaign. He posted do not reauthorize fisa. I want to get your take on this surveillance tool because you said, you changed your mind on attaching an amendment which included a warrant needed to spy on american citizens. You said you changed your mind after getting a classified briefing. Can you tell us what changedded your mind in terms of an amendment where you need a warrant to spy on americans . Yeah. The president and i agree on the necessity of the uses of fisa. Remember, thats how we kill terrorists, stop Terrorist Plots on u. S. Soil. Thats why we havent had another 9 11 since that terrible tragedy. President trump used it, and he reauthorized it in 2018 for 6 years. We changed the bill to fit his requirements and ours, and that is that it would expire now two years from now, in the middle of his next administration, so hes the one that gets to determine if its working well. Its a critical tool to stop terrorism. The whole point of the law is that we surveil foreign persons, foreign terrorists. But the reason the Warrant Requirement is not helpful9 and the reason that people we love and respect like mike pompeo and John Ratcliffe and. Devin nunes who have been in the Intelligence Community and are our guy, are conservatives who came out of the Judiciary Committee, a couple of them, they said you cant put the want on this. Quick scenarios, this is important for people to understand, maria. If were surveilling a aist in The Middle East and the terrorist sends an email to john smith in anytown, usa, and the email says the components will be delivered this afternoon for further assembly and delivery to the High School Stadium during the game, okay, i think every american would want the analyst who saw that email if that foreign terrorist to do a query of the other communications between those two persons. That is not unlawful, and that must continue. If that analyst had to get a warrant before that, it would add a huge time delay. The courts are not set up to be able to handle all that volume, and americans may die. We want to look at a those emails and find out, my goodness, which High School Stadium, is this a bomb and what are the components . We have to continue to that to save american lives. That is not searches on american citizens. If they were going to search john smith, they would have to go get a warrant. Maria right. This is lawfully collected data under section 702 and must continue. Maria real quick before you go, you talked with President Trump on friday about insuring a transparent and safe election. You talked about the save act with where you want to insure that illegals are not voting in this election. Do you have any evidence that the democrats are pushing for illegals to vote in this election . Well, listen, some of them have admitted it to us even on record in Judiciary Committee hearings that they want illegals to vote. Theyve allowed it in some municipal elections. What congress has control over is federal elections. We have to do everything single thing we can to secure that our elections are free and fair. And one thing we need to do, and this is what were about, the house are republicans are about to enter legislation into the record that will insure that no illegal can vote in a federal election. You have to prove youre a is citizen instead of, as the law currently statement ises, just checking a box to say it. Maria, we have so many illegals in the country that could tilt the election. If just 1 in 100 illegals decided to vote in an election, it could swing congressional races and it might even swing president ial races. So we have to do Everything Possible to make sure that this election is secure. Its the number one priority of the American People. Maria mr. Speaker, thanks very much for being here this morning. We so appreciate your time. Thank you. Appreciate it. Maria all right. House Speaker Mike Johnson joining us. Now joining me is the chairman of the house ways and Means Committee, congressman jason smith. Mr. Chairman, thanks very much for for joining us. Your reaction. You know, what iran did last night just just is the direct result, maria, of bidens policies and bidens rhetoric over the bidens rhetoric over the haas several years as president. Last several years as president. And that gave iran the opportunity that they felt if like they could go in and attack one of our greatest allies, israel. Maria yeah. The enabling iran to generate billions of dollars many if oil has created in oil has created something of a rich country once again. Under President Trump i dont think they actually had the wherewithal to do this. Under President Trump he imposed the strict standards of the sanctions on the iranians and allowed them where they didnt grow billions of dollars in profits in oil exports. But unfortunately, the Biden Administration has are reversed course on that, and they have been very lax on those sanctions allowing the iranians to grow in more power, more economic growth. And now theyre attacking their neighbors. Maria let me switch gears, mr. Chairman. Tomorrow, of course, is tax day. D right before april 15th we see this watchdog report that the irs has been targeting people who are making under 200,000 for their audits. Can you tell us why the irs is targeting those people making 200,000 or less in terms of audits, the majority of audits, 63 . Maria, we have been trying to sound this alarm for some time. It all started with the Inflation Reduction Act where the Biden Administration asked for an additional 80 billion to supercharge the irs, the hire 87,000 new agents. And guess what . Based on scorekeepers in congress, it is projected that that 87,000 new auditors, 70 of those audits will be on people making less than 75,000 a year. But guess what . The Biden Administration, they didnt think 80 billion was enough, so they asked for an additional 43 billion just in their budget this year. And to try to comprehend how big of dollars those are, the irs just operating a yearly budget is less than 15 billion a year. Maria mr. Chairman, im wondering why youre seeing all of these audits now when the president has are repeatedly said that anyone making 400,000 or more or less would not be a target. But youve got this watchdog, the findings of the irs watchdog, the treasury Inspector General for tax administration, examining this and coming up with 63. 63 . Yeah. Well, the president also said that he wouldnt raise taxes on ooh people making less than 400,000 a year to too too, maria. But, in fact, his budget does that. His budget raises taxes more than 7 trillion on people making less than 400,000 will also see a tax increase. Maria uhhuh. Tell me about tax day tomorrow. How much tax revenue are you expecting this year . So the best way to say is tax day has to be the favorite holiday of joe biden and the democrat party. You can see by their desire to just continue to raise taxes here and there. When you look at the revenues that we had in the year before, it was almost 5 trillion. It was record revenues, maria. And in fact, those revenues were almost 900 billion more than what the joint Tax Committee had projected based on passage of the 2017 trump tax cuts. It showed that that helped bring in the revenue. Our country does not have a revenue problem, maria. Our country has a spending problem. Maria yeah. And the spending has sent inflation to 40year highs as this past week we got another Inflation Reading with things like, you know, bread up 30 yearoveryear, flour up 24 . Across the Board Americans are feeling the pinch of inflation. What are your thoughts on the Spending Package that you all will be looking at this week in terms of sending money to ukraine . First off, lets not forget that this inflation crisis, that the inflations gone up almost 20 since joe bidens taken the Oath Of Office was the direct result of 10 trillion of new spending on top of just funding government that President Biden did with nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer went they controlled all three areas of government. Went you look at the spending when you look at the Spending Package thats moving ahead, five months a ago, maria, the House Of Representatives passed funding for israel maria right. And the United States senate has left that that bill on the sidelines. They need to pick up and pass that bill. We need to defend and protect and supply funds for for our greatest ally in The Middle East. Maria yes. Well it seems that its going to to be attached to money for ukraine and taiwan, but well be watching your work this week. Congressman, thank you very much for being here. Thank you, maria. Maria all right. Congressman jason smith, chairman of house ways and means. 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Maria a stark warning by fix bi director Christopher Wray during a hearing on capitol hill thursday on the elevated Terrorist Threat as we continue to monitor this morning irans unprecedented direct attack on israel and the implications here at home. The fbi alert coming as over 10 Million People have illegally entered the United States on President Bidens watch and nearly 2 million have evaded Apprehension Altogether and disappeared into the country with no trace of who her or what their intentions are. Already for this fiscal year, 75 people people on the fbis Terrorist Watch List have been encountered with a total of 342 since october of 2021. Joining me now with the threats mesh face here at home the former director of National Intelligence with, John Ratcliffe. Always a pleasure, thanks have for being here. Morning, maria. Maria i want to first talk about irans direct threat at israel. 99 of those attacks intercepted by israel and u. S. Military. Your thoughts and reaction. I know that you have been with on the phone with your former counterparts in israel. What do you what can you tell us . Well, maria, the word people keep using to describe this attack is unprecedented, and it is, but thats why its ironic that we find ourselves in the all too familiar position of talking about a hong list of deterrence long list of deterrence failures by the Biden Administration. Of course, the failure to deter Vladimir Putin from invading ukraine and then after the attack on israel on october the 7th, the failure of the Biden Administration if with hollow talking points, you know, a single word, dont, and the response to that as you know was more than 170 attacks on u. S. Forces and the deaths of 3 americans, dozens of traumatic brain with injuries. So clearly not working. And then, you know, which is why i was surprised that those very same hollow words and threats from the Biden Administrations, dont, were used last week after israel took out irgc general who was the ark a text of those october 7th architect of those October 7th Attacks and, again, it didnt work. An unprecedented attack, 300 drones, missiles, rockets including cruise and ballistic missiles. So, you know, you mentioned the fact that theres been credit given for the good work of the israelis and the brits and the jordanians and the United States in reacting to this in shooting down most of those threats and minimizing the damage. But, you know with, reaction isnt as good as prevention. And donald trump was right when he said he would have prevented this, and the israelis believe that this would have been prevented. You know, they are were, i think, understandably surprised and upset as was i that the seeds for this failure in deterrence took place in joe bidens reaction to that hit in damascus where instead of just remaining silent, the Biden Administration quickly came out and said the u. S. Was not involved in this. And that sent a message to iran and to the rest of the world that the u. S. Was not with israel, that the u. S. Was a reluctant to support israel on this, you know . And that really shows how much fractured this relationship has become between the United States and israel moving forward. And i think that that emboldened iran and is one of the as one of the former intelligence officials in iran said to me last night, you know, with friends like joe biden, israel doesnt need more enemies. And so, you know, i think that they are, they are upset about this, and i think now its compounded by very quickly the Biden Administration has taken the wrong response in the aftermath of this. And the response is instead of criticizing iran and joe biden hasnt spoken to that, theyre leaking the fact that theyre upset that the israelis may overreact to this exist existential threat, that they dont have a strategy and they might use this to further escalate. And i tell you, thats infuriating to the israelis as they face, again, an unprecedented, historic attack of this nature. And theyre not real happy about being criticized and getting advice from, you know, the masters of disaster, biden, blinken, sullivan and if austin, you know . The architects of so many Foreign Policy failures who are now lecturing the israelis about what to do in this threat. Maria are you expecting a response from israel . To iran . Absolutely. And i think that there should be, there must be. Look, joe biden doesnt have any red lines. They get crossed. Dont doesnt mean anything. But the israelis do have red lines, and a key nettic attack kinetic attack into israel by iran must be answered. Maria, the idea of not overreact a, if you dont respond to this forcefully, it normalizes it. It sends the message that these kinds of attacks are okay. So, unfortunately, instead of working with israel, i think israel will act alone here, and they will consider and should consider a strong response that could target anything from iranian oil infrastructure, Iranian Military installations, iranian leadership or perhaps if iranians Nuclear Facilities and nuclear program. You know, i think all of this highlights what a failure the biden and before that the Obama Administration approaches to iran really is, and these are the people that have been enriching iran and encouraging them and allowing them to maintain a nuclear program. This is a country that does not deserve to have nuclear ambitions, and and i think the israelis will look seriously at removing this excess ten, threat in that way existential threat in that way. Maria so you think that the israelis believe that the Biden Administration and its policies empowered iran to attack israel. Absolutely. I mean, billions and billions of dollars from the Biden Administration in ransom for hostages maria yeah. And in sanctions relief rebuilt the iranian economy. The irony, maria, is so many of those rockets and missiles that were shot down yesterday were paid for with by the Biden Administration. That was money that the u. S. Sent under the Biden Administration is, you know, was used to, you know, rebuild the Iranian Military structure to use against israel. Maria wow. And israel very clearly sees that and resents it. Maria real quick before you go, or john, your reaction to the house reauthorizing fisa. Obviously, you lived this during the Russia Collusion Lie when the fbi spied on President Trumps officials and campaign illegally. Yeah. So right up front, President Trump was right the other day when he said they used fisa title i to spy on his campaign, and the fbi broke the law to do that. They also, the fbi abused section 702 to spy on americans unlawfully. Maria right. So the fbi did this to themselves. They have abused this. So im all for reforms. I will say this, 56 reforms, 57 reforms whether youre talking about a Warrant Requirement, legislative solution isnt the process here. There was a Warrant Requirement to Spy On Carter Page maria right. And the fbi broke that law four times to do that. Thats not an opinion, thats a fact. Maria right. What really is needed here, maria, is fbi leadership that says if you take away this important tool that we use to keep president s informed about a National Security threats, were going to dedicate our time to make sure that you spend a considerable period of your life in federal prison, and thats whats missing. We have a problem with leadership, and it needs to be fixed. Maria need consequences, of course. John ratcliffe, thank you. Former director of National Intelligence. You bet. Maria thank you, si diabetes can serve up a lot of questions, like. What is your glucose, and can you have more carbs . Before you decide. With the freestyle libre 3 system. Know your glucose and where its headed. No fingersticks needed. Now the worlds smallest and thinnest sensor. Sends your Glucose Levels directly to your smartphone. Manage your diabetes with more confidence, and lower your a1c. The number one cgm prescribed in the us. Try it for free at freestylelibre. Us. Misinformation is the enemy of pandemic control. No doubt, its really, i think, one of the most important issues were facing. It goes well beyond covid. If. Maria and that was dr. Anthony fauci, the former director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases this past february on the importance of controlling the narrative as people were dying during a pandemic leading to censorship of critical information. The Biden Administration has yet to demand answers from and hold china accountable for covid19 and the coverup that followed amidst the nearly 1. 2 Million Deaths it caused. Instead, the white house asked the ccp last week to pressure iran not to launch an attack on israel which, obviously, did not work. Now a whistleblower is stepping forward to expose what the federal government knew all along about the origins of covid 19. Joining me now with more is the Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland security committee, senator rand paul. Senator, its great to see you. First, more pressing situations this morning after the attack from iran into israel. Your reaction. You know, i think were very fortunate that it was ineffective and israels and u. S. defenses were able to stop 97 of this. But i think one question thats not being asked enough this morning is everybodys asking can what is the next step to escalation. There is another question, what are the possibilities that we could deescalate the situation. Every action has a reaction. Hamas attacked on october 7th, awful, dreadful, israel kills two generals, now every action has a reaction and is there a possibility that this could be deescalated at this point. And and i think people ought to take a brent, wait a little bit. In medicine were taught to check your own pulse before you check the patients pulse. You need to calm down and think with a clear head before we move forward. Maria so what do you want to do with moving forward in the senate with regard to the conversation around a new supplemental package which would send money to israel, ukraine and taiwan . You know, i havent supported foreign aid really in my ten you in the tenure in the senate, but with i did support aid to israel not too long ago. This was passed in the house and every democrat in the senate voted against aid that was paid for. What i would say to Speaker Johnson is hold your ground, show some intestinal fortitude. Tell Chuck Schumer to take it up, and its going to be paid for. Its a great precedent if Speaker Johnson will stick by his guns. I have a feeling that were going to sica pitchlation. Theres see capitulation. Why would republicans negotiate with themselves . Tell Chuck Schumer, bring it up. Its been sitting in the senate for two years now. If they want more aid to israel, bring it up, but were going to have to cut somewhere else to pay for it. Maria i want to ask you about what you heard from the speaker regarding fisa. Can we trust government to use fisa appropriately and legally . Absolutely not. Americans shouldnt be spied on by their own government. The Fourth Amendment was put in by our Founding Fathers to protect us. Fisa doesnt obey the Fourth Amendment, and and so Speaker Johnson was incredibly wrong. He broke the tie. He voted with the democrats. Here we have the leader of the republicans in the house votes with the democrats against a Warrant Requirement. We also have Speaker Johnson voting for the Spending Package once again with the majority of the democrats. If as i see it now, im not sure theres a difference between mike johnson being in charge and the democrats being in charge. The debt, the deficit this year will be 1. 52 trillion, and thats Mike Johnsons bill. He put it forward. He supported it with a minority of republicans, with the majority of democrats. This is not using the power of the purse, this is abdicating the power of the purse. Maria well, why . Why do you think that is . You know, people have to be strong in their convictions. He was seen as a conservative before he came to the speakership, but now he puts a tweet out the other day saying, oh, they whispered to him about 702, how important it is, and hes completely changed and lost all his principles on the idea you shouldnt spy on americans would want a warrant. On the spending issue, he said, oh, government will shut down. But if the democrats want this level of spending and we want in this level are, a compromise would be splitting the deference. The democrats got everything they want in the spending, and all the hawks got what they want too. This is a problem. On the republican side, we have people who want unlimited Military Spending and then the democrats want unlimited welfare spending, and they get both. Johnson hasnt held his ground. He has power, he has the majority. Use the power of the purse, Speaker Johnson. Do something to make us think you are different that than the democrats. So far i dont see a lot of difference. Maria wow. All of this while the border is yet to be secured. Exactly. We shouldnt you know, looking we have 41 republicans in the senate, so while i blame Speaker Johnson, i blame 41 senators in the senate, we could stop the senate, and they could do nothing without us. If 41 of us say, no, were not passing anything until the borders secured, guess what . Democrats will wake up and secure the border. But we dont use our power effectively. We abdicate. In the senate the same thing happens. 10 liberals, Big Government republicans vote with the democrats, and the democrats get what they wantful but now Mike Johnsons voting with the minority of his party. Hes the leader of his party, and hes not voting with the majority of the republicans who were for a Warrant Requirement. The majority of the republicans were not for having a deficit of 1. 5 trillion, and yet hes siding with the democrats. If he wants to remain speaker, frankly, hes got to do better. I wanted to give him a break and i have for a couple months. This is the first time ive really spoken out, but the speakers got to be the leader of his party, not a capitulator to the other party. Maria what about leadership in the senatesome who would you hike to see replace Mitch Mcconnell . Any, anyone at this point would be better because he now has decided that ukraine and sending our money to ukraine that we have to borrow is more important than anything including our border. The whole fiasco of getting that that thing started with ineffective Border Control that we ended up rejecting was all senator mcconnells idea, and it was a disaster. Its led to democrats now saying, look, we offered you this great border bill, and you didnt take it. Maria right. It was a crummy deal, we never should have done it. Maria real quick, weve got to get into covid as well. You are out with a report which shows that 15, at least 15 federal agencies knew that Gain Of Function Research was being done in the wuhan lab since, what, 2018 . Yeah. We know this because of whistleblowers. Nobody in the administration if has told us anythingful weve gotten all of our information from whistleblower, but we now know it wasnt Just One Agency china was approaching. China made a presentation or an american representative, peter daszak, Made A Representation to 15 agencies about a creating a virus that, guess what . Looks suspiciously like covid19 and looks like no other virus in nature from that family. They were working on this and presented it to 15 agencies. And in 2020 when they saw covid19, they should have all been calling and raising the alarm and saying, my goodness, we saw this two years ago, we knew the chinese were doing this. Lo and behold, they didnt. Nobody in government came forward, not one person. I take that back, a brave marine, a lieutenant colonel, came forward and gave us that information or today we would still not know any of this. Maria and we havent seen any of Holding China to account for any of this. Not just the leak, but then the coverup that followed. The Biden Administration has yet to demand answers. [laughter] yeah. The Biden Administration has signed a pandemic treaty to give away all of our sovereignty so people from around the world, third world countries that run these organizations, can tell us what to do, what kind of masks to wear, whether to wear goggles, earmuffs and all the other ridiculous things that were offered up, to surround ourselves by plexiglas, all of the moronic ideas weve now farmed out. Its not bad enough to have people in the United States telling us this, theyve farmed it out to an International Treaty to let, you know, the rest of the world tell us how were going to live our lives the next time something bad like this happens. Maria senator, we so appreciate your time this morning. Thanks very much. Senator rand paul joining us. Thank you. Maria thank you, sir. Quick break, and as we continue to monitor the Breaking News out of The Middle East, the trial of President Trump covering up alleged Money Payments is set to begin tomorrow with Jury Selection in manhattan. George Washington University law professor, Fox News ContributorJonathan Turley is here with legal analysis. Is stay with us. Finish. I met with a Turbotax Expert because i had two full time jobs. Lawyering and. Liaming. Count on me, mia. Ill file your taxes for you with 100 accuracy, guaranteed. Let a turbotax fullservice expert do your taxes as soon as today. Heres to Getting Better with age. Heres to beating these two every thursday. Help fuel today with boost high protein, complete nutrition you need. Without the stuff you dont. So, heres to now. Boost. 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Now Jury Selection is set to begin tomorrow in manhattan in trumps socalled hush money trial. The that 45th president is facing 34 Felony Counts for falsifying Business Records to cover up alleged payments to Adult Film ActressStormy Daniels. Joining me with a preview and analysis is george Washington University law professor and Fox News ContributorJonathan Turley. Sir, professor, great to see you this morning. Thanks very much for being here. Thank you, maria. Maria can donald trump get a fair jury in new york . Well, its going to be a challenging jury. Its easier the find a stray manatee in manhattan than someone whos an actual the trump supporter. This is one of the most hostile jurisdictions to trump, and thats going to be reflected in the jury pool. Theyre not going to be asked about their political leanings, so he can assume that hes going to have a motivated judge and a fairly hostile jury. And thats one of the things that i think alvin bragg is counting on. This is an absurd case, and hes counting on the fact that the jury may not demand a lot once they see whos sitting behind the defense table. Maria yeah. I mean, jonathan, im wondering if the judge is trying to weed out Trump Supporters when he, in fact, is asking questions of potential jurors. Is that possible . Well, you always have to rook for that look for that as a concern not just with the judge, with the prosecutors. But, frankly, the prosecutors dont is are to do much. Theyre starting with a base that is overwhelmingly democratic, overwhelmingly antitrump so just by the law of averages youre going to get the ideal jury for bringing a case against trump. That doesnt mean that its a lead pipe cinch. You could still have holdouts maria yeah. Well have to see. Maria John Ratcliffe said he thinks there could be a hung jury. I want to ask you more about that. 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El thece federal crime here under election lot was rejected underh the Department Of Justice but they did not feel this should bs charged. So you have this crazy case its going to go forward but itseo going to turn on thepl testimony of people like michael cohen. H and Michael Coheimn recently haa judge call him a serial perjurer. Er os the center of this case. Un becooks unbelievable, jonathan great to see this money thank you very much. At thatl will do for us ill see e tomorrow on foxbusiness mornings with marias live. See how at turbotax. Com. Thats me my dry eyes made me a burning, stinging, 5timesaday,. Makeup smearing drops user. I want another option thats not another drop. Tyrvaya. Its not another drop. Its the first and only nasal spray for dry eye. Tyrvaya treats the signs and symptoms of Dry Eye Disease fast by helping your body produce its own real tears. Common side effects include sneezing, cough, and throat and nose irritation. Relying only on drops . Not me. 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