i also have a long tongue. thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. former president trump rips president biden s new immigration policy from battleground, wisconsin. we will talk about that and more with one of the people said to be on trump s vice presidential short list ohio senator j.d. vance. and why congress is taking a deeper look at the covid lab leak theory. bret: but, first, breaking tonight an election year move on immigration from president biden. the president saying he will protect from deportation spouses of u.s. citizens who have been in the country illegally for at least 10 years. critics call the modify which mh could impact half a million illegal immigrants unenforceable. republicans are hitting back against the administration s claim that unaltered video showing the president appearing confused or getting ushered off stage or back to a group are, quote: cheap fakes. and manipulated in some way. senior national correspondent rich edson starts us off liv
these viruses were not making people sick until they created them. for they weaponized viruses to attach to ourselves and make us sick. it s a bioweapon. they are attacking you and our medical community for actually creating covid that has caused the deaths of millions. we know that these extreme comments are targeting public health officials across the country. i also want to show you this other comment. the same member. this being unfunded wuhan lab created the virus. this is so crazy and irresponsible. the same member of this committee and accusing him of a global conspiracy to create covid on purpose just to make people get vaccines. that you had done this, sir. the same member routinely promotes misinformation about vaccines and actually has encouraged the routine prevention of tax filings and eliminate diseases like the measles.
and brightest scientists in this country in the world doing everything that you could and working night and day to save more and more of those lives. a lot of my colleagues know that my mom was a health care worker during the pandemic. my mom died of covid. my stepfather died of covid. i lost both of my parents during the pandemic. i think is very personally and other members of this body who are tasked to be responsible and healthy american people attack medical professionals like you and across the world. a vaccine that you and your team health foster has saved millions of american lives. these are ridiculous. even before this committee started. i wanted to point a few things out. this same member that went on this rant introduced the fire fauci act and promoted on a podcast saying that covid was a bioweapon. that is how insane some of these comments are. this is a quote from the same member. i don t believe in evolution.
down the rhetoric on suggestions that the virus came from a lab or was a bioweapon or was engineered and he says it s partly to protect anthony s reputation from his perspective from robert cavlick s. he was trying to get china to share a sample of the verizon. so he didn t want these public accusations flyings it leading and a great deception on the whole public. the whole world and it s also misleading advice that then went to the intelligence community, that went to our policymakers and to the media. they also talked about it being possibly genetically engineered which was pretty scary if this was deliberate in a lab which resulted in so many labs around the world. why did he decide to talk to you. what is it the purpose in this i have written a book what really happened in wuhan. i have been very committed to investigating the topic of
conspiracy theories draws racist accusations pivots says he was taken out of context, attacks his attackers, blames the media and rises politically. where have we possibly ever seen that before. let me think? donald trump. this is the 2016 playbook we re watching happen but there is a d next to his name, not an r. what you saw in that hearing, debbie wasserman schultz tried on thursday to shut that hearing down. not only denounced him as antisemite. you shouldn t appear here. what did he do? appeared before the weaponization committee and accused democrats of censoring him which is exactly what he wanted to get out of it. howard: republican called him as a witness here. move on to this. he is constantly claiming his views are misrepresented or twisted but in his covid comments he was basically saying it is a bioweapon but jews and chinese people are spared. he was denounced by various jewish organization. no doubt. he is peddling in these anti-semitic conspiracy